Stories of the uprooted / Katherine Payant -- In(ter)dependent selves : Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish immigrant women's autobiography / Wendy Zierler -- Justifying individualism : Anzia Yezierska's Bread givers / Martin Japtok -- Fighting the trolls on the Dakota plains : the ecstasy and the agony of Norwegian immigrants' lives in O.E. Rolvaag's Giants in the earth / Raychel Haugrud Reiff -- Jasmine or the americanization of an Asian : negotiating between "cultural arrest" and moral decay in immigrant fictions / Gonul Pultar -- Developing negatives : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy / Jacqueline Doyle -- Speaking and listening : the immigrant as spy who comes in from the cold / June Dwyer -- Repositioning the stars : twentieth-century narratives of Asian American immigration / Qun Wang -- Borderland themes in Sandra Cisneros's Woman hollering creek / Katherine Payant -- Crossroads are our roads : Paule Marshall's portrayal of immigrant identity themes / Toby Rose -- Motherland versus daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's the Line of the sun / Carmen Faymonville -- Obasan and hybridity : necessary cultural strategies / Matthew Beedham -- Becoming Americans : Gish Jen's Typical American / Zhou Xiaojing.
