Author: Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) explores both material and immaterial aspects of immigrant baggage. Through a combination of dispassionate reportage, gentle irony, and confessional remembrance, Shrayer writes about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him—Russian, Jewish, and American. The spirit of nonconformism and the power of laughter come to the rescue of Shrayer’s autobiographical protagonist when he faces existential calamities and life’s misadventures. The aftermath of a dangerous ski accident in Italy reminds the memoirist of history’s black holes. A haunting, Soviet-era theatrical affair pushes the émigré protagonist to the brink of a disaster in a provincial Russian town. Attempting to collect overdue royalties from a Moscow publisher, the expatriate writer tips his hat to Kafka. The book’s six interconnected tales are held together by the memorist’s imperative to make the ordinary absurd and the absurd—ordinary. Shrayer parses a translingual literary life filled with travel, politics, and discovery—and sustained by family love and faith in art’s transcendence.
Immigrant Baggage
Author: Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) explores both material and immaterial aspects of immigrant baggage. Through a combination of dispassionate reportage, gentle irony, and confessional remembrance, Shrayer writes about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him—Russian, Jewish, and American. The spirit of nonconformism and the power of laughter come to the rescue of Shrayer’s autobiographical protagonist when he faces existential calamities and life’s misadventures. The aftermath of a dangerous ski accident in Italy reminds the memoirist of history’s black holes. A haunting, Soviet-era theatrical affair pushes the émigré protagonist to the brink of a disaster in a provincial Russian town. Attempting to collect overdue royalties from a Moscow publisher, the expatriate writer tips his hat to Kafka. The book’s six interconnected tales are held together by the memorist’s imperative to make the ordinary absurd and the absurd—ordinary. Shrayer parses a translingual literary life filled with travel, politics, and discovery—and sustained by family love and faith in art’s transcendence.
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) explores both material and immaterial aspects of immigrant baggage. Through a combination of dispassionate reportage, gentle irony, and confessional remembrance, Shrayer writes about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him—Russian, Jewish, and American. The spirit of nonconformism and the power of laughter come to the rescue of Shrayer’s autobiographical protagonist when he faces existential calamities and life’s misadventures. The aftermath of a dangerous ski accident in Italy reminds the memoirist of history’s black holes. A haunting, Soviet-era theatrical affair pushes the émigré protagonist to the brink of a disaster in a provincial Russian town. Attempting to collect overdue royalties from a Moscow publisher, the expatriate writer tips his hat to Kafka. The book’s six interconnected tales are held together by the memorist’s imperative to make the ordinary absurd and the absurd—ordinary. Shrayer parses a translingual literary life filled with travel, politics, and discovery—and sustained by family love and faith in art’s transcendence.
Report of the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalization
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalization
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Immigration Problems
Author: Victor Safford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emigration and immigration law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emigration and immigration law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Racial Baggage
Author: Sylvia Zamora
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503632253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "illegal." This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with them, as the "pigmentocracy" of Mexican society, in which their skin color may have afforded them more privileges within their home country, collides with the American racial system. Racial Baggage examines how immigration reconfigures U.S. race relations, illuminating how the immigration experience can transform understandings of race in home and host countries. Drawing on interviews with Mexicans in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, sociologist Sylvia Zamora illustrates how racialization is a transnational process that not only changes immigrants themselves, but also everyday understandings of race and racism within the United States and Mexico. Within their communities and networks that span an international border, Zamora argues, immigrants come to define "race" in a way distinct from both the color-conscious hierarchy of Mexican society and the Black-White binary prevalent within the United States. In the process, their stories demonstrate how race is not static, but rather an evolving social phenomenon forever altered by immigration.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503632253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "illegal." This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with them, as the "pigmentocracy" of Mexican society, in which their skin color may have afforded them more privileges within their home country, collides with the American racial system. Racial Baggage examines how immigration reconfigures U.S. race relations, illuminating how the immigration experience can transform understandings of race in home and host countries. Drawing on interviews with Mexicans in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, sociologist Sylvia Zamora illustrates how racialization is a transnational process that not only changes immigrants themselves, but also everyday understandings of race and racism within the United States and Mexico. Within their communities and networks that span an international border, Zamora argues, immigrants come to define "race" in a way distinct from both the color-conscious hierarchy of Mexican society and the Black-White binary prevalent within the United States. In the process, their stories demonstrate how race is not static, but rather an evolving social phenomenon forever altered by immigration.
Immigration: Select Documents and Case Records
Author: Edith Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Annual report of the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Health for the fiscal year ending ... 1894
Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Health of the State of Michigan, for the Fiscal Year Ending...
Author: Michigan. State Board of Health
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Health
Author: Michigan. Department of Health
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description