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Immigration Narratives in Young Adult Literature - Crossing Borders (Hardcover, New)
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Immigration Narratives in Young Adult Literature - Crossing Borders (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature
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Although the United States prides itself as a nation of diversity,
the country that boasts of its immigrant past also wrestles with
much of its immigrant present. While conflicting attitudes about
immigration are debated, newcomers both legal and otherwise
continue to arrive on American soil. And books about the immigrant
experience aimed at both adults and youth are published with a fair
amount of frequency. In Immigration Narrative in Young Adult
Literature: Crossing Borders, Joanne Brown explores the experiences
of adolescents as portrayed in young adult novels. Her study
features protagonists from a wide variety of religious and ethnic
backgrounds in order to provide a complete discussion of the
immigration experience of young adults. In this volume, Brown
analyzes young adult novels that portray various aspects of the
immigrant experience journeys to the shores of the United States,
the difficulties of adjustment, and the tensions that develop
within family units as a result of immigration. Brown also examines
how ethnicity, religion, and country of origin affect the
adolescent characters' adjustment to their new country, as well as
the process of moving from social outsiders to accepted citizens.
This thoroughly researched book includes theories of adolescent
development and perspectives on immigration itself applied to the
literary analyses. It also offers a framework for anticipating the
success of young immigrants and relates this analysis to the novels
Brown discusses. With an appendix of additional novels for further
reading, this book will be a useful resource for librarians and
teachers of adolescent literature, as well as for students, both
those born in the United States and those who are immigrants
themselves.
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