In Search of a Dream America

This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the book are: Vasily Aksyonov, Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Edward Limonov, and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi.

Autorentext

Irina V. Rodimtseva is an Assistant Professor of English at Alderson Broaddus University in Philippi, WV. She received her Master s Degree in English from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University in Russia and her doctoral degree from West Virginia University in the U.S. Her research interests are 20th-century American literature (in particular immigrant and prison literature) and place studies. Her articles have been published in Arizona Quarterly and the Nabokov Studies.

Inhalt

Introduction - «That Alluring Land»: Eastern European and Russian Visions of America - Mary Antin Takes Possession of America - Eva Hoffman in the Land of Yearning - Vasily Aksyonov and Edward Limonov in the Land of Freedom - Epilogue - Bibliography