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Gains and Losses of Immigration in Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Authors: Bubíková Šárka

Year: 2010

Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku

Name of source: American and British Studies Annual

Publisher name: Univerzita Pardubice

Place: Pardubice

Page from-to: 9-20

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Zisk a tráta imigrace v románu Julie Alvarez How the García Girls Lost Their Accents	Článek se zabývá problematikou (nucené) imigrace, asimilace, dvoukulturnosti a bilingvnosti jak je zobrazuje v románu How the García Girls Lost Their Accents americká spisovatelka Julia Alvarezová.	imigrace; asimilace; dvoukulturnost; bilingvnost; How the García Girls Lost Their Accents; Julia Alvarez
eng	Gains and Losses of Immigration in Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents	Immigration is a frequent theme in American literature both in fiction and in so-called ego-documents. But while United States was often considered a country of immigrants, immigration has only lately ceased to be automatically linked with assimilation and integration. In my analysis of the Julia Alvarez’s novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), I will focus on how immigration is depicted as both a loss and a gain, as a kind of oscillation between the need to accommodate to new home and to retain what is fundamental to one’s identity from the old.	Immigration; assimilation; bi-culturality; Julia Alvarez; How the García Girls Lost Their Accents;

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