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1	Themes of Immigration and Assimilation in the Fiction of Abraham Cahan HŮLKOVÁ, Kateřina January 2016 (has links) This diploma thesis aims to analyze the varied aspects linked with the themes of immigration and assimilation in the fiction of the Jewish-Lithuanian immigrant writer Abraham Cahan. The protagonists of his fiction are all Jewish immigrants struggling to adapt to the American cultural life economically, but also linguistically, socially, as well as in appearance. The thesis examines struggles such as alienation from and suppression of many cultural features of the old country, and analyzes one novel (The Rise of David Levinsky), two novellas (The Imported Bridegroom and Yekl, A Tale of the New York´s Ghetto) and four short stories ("A Providential Match", "A Sweatshop Romance", "Circumstances" and "A Ghetto Wedding").
2	The Search for Belonging and Citizenship in U.S. Immigration Novels, 1887-1935 Babcock, Aaron C. 16 September 2020 (has links) No description available. Literature Ethnic Studies American Studies American Literature American Literature citizenship belonging immigrants identity assimilation nativism race ethnicity United States Drude Krog Janson Abraham Cahan Anzia Yezierska Claude McKay HT Tsiang James T Farrell
3	Socio-Economic Class Mobility in American Naturalist Fiction Roth, Rachel A. 19 September 2013 (has links) No description available. Literature American Literature immigration fiction American fiction 20th century fiction class issues Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie Jack London Martin Eden Edith Wharton The House of Mirth Frank Norris Vandover and the Brute Abraham Cahan The Rise of David Levinsky

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