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“Re-Inventing Oneself: Immigration in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and Gish Jen’s Typical American”

Autoři: Bubíková Šárka

Rok: 2014

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	“Re-Inventing Oneself: Immigration in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and Gish Jen’s Typical American”	The contribution focuses on how immigration is viewed in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) and Gish Jen’s Typical American (1991), novels published in the same year and both reflecting the experience of political refugees. The contribution discusses how immigration is depicted as both a loss and a gain, as a kind of oscillation between the need to accommodate to the new home and to retain what is fundamental to one’s identity from the old one, an uneasy re-invention of oneself as an American.	American literature; immigration; Julia Alvarez; How the García Girls Lost Their Accents; Gish Jen; Typical American