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The Emigrants is the collective name of a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg: The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna), 1949; Unto a Good Land (title in Swedish: Invandrarna 'The Immigrants'), 1952; The Settlers (Swedish: Nybyggarna), 1956; The Last Letter Home (title in Swedish: Sista brevet till Sverige 'The Last Letter to ...
Migrant literature focuses on the social contexts in the migrants' country of origin which prompt them to leave, on the experience of migration itself, on the mixed reception which they may receive in the country of arrival, on experiences of racism and hostility, and on the sense of rootlessness and the search for identity which can result from displacement and cultural diversity.
The powerful mother is a common pivotal figure in immigrant fiction, just as the sensitive child, torn between this matriarchal authority and a weaker, less adaptive father, often assumes the book's central consciousness. Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), fits the pattern, with its tense mother-daughter duo, Silla and Selina ...
Prior to the working on the book, Bush met all of the immigrants whose stories are covered in the book. [1] In creating the book, Bush stated "My hope is that Out of Many, One will help focus our collective attention on the positive effects that immigrants have on our country." [2] Out of Many, One quickly became a New York Times bestseller. [2]
In 1977, he published The Immigrants, the first of a six-part series of novels. In 1948, author Harry Barnard accused Fast of copyright infringement, charging he "borrowed liberally" from Barnard's biography of John Peter Altgeld for his own book about Altgeld, The American. Fast settled for $7,500 ($93,725 in 2022 dollars).
The book sets out to discuss themes including free speech and cancel culture through the perspective of a non-Western immigrant. [4] It particularly addresses why the West has a negative view of itself, and why that is self-destructive. [5] One of the themes of the book is the history of slavery and the way it is taught in American schools.
Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district.
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, anonymously written 1939 book which claims that Adolf Hitler died in 1938 and was subsequently impersonated by look-alikes. Go Ask Alice, now known to have been written by Beatrice Sparks. A Woman in Berlin, an anonymous diary detailing experiences of a German woman as Germany is defeated in World War II.
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