Finding America
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Finding America
Original language description
In the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, there was a great wave of Jewish immigration, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe, to the United States. Almost half of these immigrants were women. The struggle of the female characters for assimilation into American culture as depicted in early Jewish American Fiction is the main issue addressed in the paper. The books used for the analysis are Anzia Yezierska´s collection of short stories Hungry Hearts and Henry Roth´s novel Call It Sleep. The ten short stories in Yezierska´s Hungry Hearts narrate about the quest of the young female Jewish immigrants to achieve the American dream. In Henry Roth´s novel Call It Sleep two female characters, the protagonist?s mother and her sister, demonstrate a different attitude towards assimilation and being part of American culture. Even though the Jewish women´s immigration to the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century did not differ much from the experience of the other immigrant women, their experience was still influenced by their religion and gender. The paper analyses their search for acceptance and different approaches towards assimilation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Assimilation ? A Good or Bad Word?: proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium of American Studies: June 18-19, 2015, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
ISBN
978-80-244-4937-1
ISSN
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Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
128-143
Publisher name
Palacký University
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Jun 18, 2015
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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