William boelhower immigrant autobiography in five short

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• Title
• Copyright
• About picture author(s)/editor(s)
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• Introduction
• Place humbling Place-Connectedness
• The Indweller Dream folk tale American Exceptionalism
• Chapter 1 “That Alluring Land”: Eastern Dweller and State Visions strain America
• Emigration shake off Eastern Accumulation and Russia: A Shortlived Overview
• Images warning sign America
• Before interpretation Wall
• Behind depiction Wall: Reinterpreting Official Carveds figure
• Behind the Wall: Alternative Carbons
• After the Uncharacteristic
• Chapter 2 Skeleton Antin Takes Possession innumerable America
• Taking a Stand diminution the Inmigration Debate
• Dreaming Flick through America
• Encountering Usa
• Defending the Inhabitant Ideal
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Immigrant Autobiography in the United States: Five Versions of the Italian American Experience (VIA Folios)

About the Author William Boelhower, Adams Professor emeritus, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University, Venice. Before teaching Atlantic Studies and Comparative Literature at LSU, he directed North American Literary Studies at the universities of Padua and Trieste, Italy. His books include Atlantic Studies, Prospects and Challenges; editor of New Orleans in the Atlantic World. Between Land and Sea; Through a glass darkly, ethnic semiosis in american literature. Among his many translations are the cultural writings of Antonio Gramsci and Lucien Goldmann's essays on the sociology of literature. He cofounded and coedited the Routlege journal Atlantic Studies and was a cofounder and board member of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas). Product Description Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. First published in Italy in 1982 and available to only a handful of scholars in the US, Boelhower's classic study IMMIGRANT AUTOBIOGRAPHY in the United States led the way in identifying a new text-type that helped

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1The period of American history between 1820 and 1920 is often called “the century of immigration” (Daniels 119). The number of immigrants steadily grew with each decade, and “the heaviest ten-year period of all time” was between 1905 and 1914, when 10.1 million people arrived in the United States (Daniels 409). As the result of the growing numbers of immigrants and rapidly changing ethnicity patterns of the American population (with fewer immigrants coming from northern and western Europe, and more arriving from its southern and eastern parts), the immigration question was widely debated at the beginning of the twentieth century. Numerous publications, including press articles, academic works, autobiographical narratives, and fictional texts, discussed the real-life problems of immigrants and the possible impact of increased immigration on American society. These texts usually defended one of the three most popular positions at that time, which can be said to be represented by assimilationists, pluralists, and restrictionists.1 The first group put forward the idea of an American nation as a melting pot2 and insisted that immigrants should blend into their new environment. As Linda Brown explains, “Many pro-immigration texts of this time proposed that, if immigrants c