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The Promised Land
Mary Antin
出版Penguin, 2012-06-26
主題Social Science / Emigration & ImmigrationBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / United States / 20th Century
ISBN11016595729781101659571
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sYxFAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋An extraordinary popular success when it was first published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience. Mary Antin emigrated with her family from the
Eastern European town of Polotzk to Boston in 1894, when she was twelve years old. Preternaturally inquisitive, Antin was a provocative observer of the identity-altering contrasts between Old World and
New. Her narrative — of universal appeal and rich in its depictions of both worlds — captures a large-scale sociocultural landscape and paints a profound self-portrait of an iconoclast seeking to reconcile her
heritage with her newfound identity as an American citizen.