Low Company is the third novel in Fuchs’ trilogy set in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, an area where the first generation of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe are watching the second assimilate the ways and morals of the new country. In this case, however, the scene shifts sli...
Sense of Loss in Willa Cather's My ntonia Traditionally, we think of the American dream as owning a home and having a happy family accompanied by financial success. Immigrants included dream in their visions about America as a promised land. Willa Cather's approach to the Americ... ŞTEFAN...
This is a page-turner with complexcharacters and situations that will make you think hard aboutfriendship, good and evil, betrayal, etc. Itis intense and a greatbook by many measures.On one level, The Kite Runner is the story of two boys inAfghanistan and Afghan immigrants in America. It ...
Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimately celebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom. Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist who has exhibited internationally with shows in New York, Los Angeles...
Bellow's travels in Europe in the late forties, during which some of the novel was composed, must also have had a liberating effect on him, contributing to his interest in the European roots of America's immigrants, something which is hardly reflected at all in the earlier novels. Bellow ...
“the Stonewall of the West”, who in this book has somehow morphed into a Fenian and a pro-Union man, raising an Irish Legion to fight for the Union, on the grounds that all the Irish immigrants in Boston and New York will want to fight against Britain. I suppose they might have ...
an area populated primarily by Jewish immigrants andAfrican Americans, the novel contains a murdermysteryat its heart. Music plays an essential part in its storyline, as two of the Jewish characters, Moshe and Chona Ludlow, operate one of the region’s firstintegrateddance halls, showcasing Blac...
No new non-white immigrants, either; Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez will never cross our southern border while I’m racist-in-chief, um, sexual-predator-in-chief, um, commander-in-chief. It helps that those two Hispanic writers are dead. Not much border-crossing potential ther...
The Sachs are “a family of Portuguese merchants, the vieille noblesse of the Jewish community.” Both Caspary’s real family and her fictional family in Thicker Than Water share this pride in their ancient Portuguese heritage, especially compared to more recent German and Polish Jewish immigrants...
Since the journey is half the experience and ’tis better to travel hopefully than to arrive, I took a Zero Bus from Balto’s dilapidated Chinatown full of Ethiopian immigrants to Chinatown in NYC. Not surprisingly, seats on the bus were occupied primarily by Asians: Chinese, Koreans, Filipin...