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Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today

Immigration is the essential American story, though one often told in terms of its impact on those already here. Becoming Americans tells this epic story from the inside, gathering for the first time over 400 years of writing by first-generation immigrants about the immigrant experienceâ€” from an indentured servantâ€™s wrenching letter home from seventeenth-century Jamestown to Anya Ulinichâ€™s 2008 story of Russian emigrÃ©s in Brooklyn. Over eighty writers create a vivid, passionate, and revealing firsthand account of the challenges and aspirations that define our dynamic, multicultural democracy. In nearly a hundred entriesâ€”poems, stories, novel excerpts, travel pieces, diary entries, memoirs, and lettersâ€”Becoming Americans presents the full range of the experience of coming to America: the reasons for departure, the journey itself, the shock and spectacle of first arrival, the passionate ambivalence toward the old country and the old life, and above all the struggle with the complexities of Americanization. Arranged in chronological order by date of arrival, this unprecedented collection presents a collective history of the United States that is both familiar and surprisingly new, as seen through the fresh eyes and fresh words of newcomers from more than forty different countries.

Country	USA
Author	Various
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781598532906
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	1598532901
Label	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	752
PublicationDate	2014-01-02
Publisher	Library of America
ReleaseDate	2014-01-02
Studio	Library of America

Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today

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