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Telling Tales of Difference: Portrayals of Immigrant Identity in Cahan's, Cohen's, and Yezierska's "Landscapes" of Otherness and Contrast
Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-27
Katrin Korkalainen

This article seeks to explore the intricate correlations between space, identity, and belonging in "landscapes" of difference. The genre of immigrant literature offers excellent terrain for probing the complexity of identity-related matters because of its profound concern with human, spatial, and sociocultural difference. In examining three Jewish-American narratives—Abraham Cahan's Yekl (1896), Rose Cohen's Out of the Shadow (1918), and Anzia Yezierska's Hungry Hearts (1920)—which share as their primary setting the Jewish immigrant ghetto on New York's Lower East Side as it existed between the 1880s and the 1920s, the article illuminates various instances that demonstrate that people's perception of others and themselves—their sense of identity and belonging—is closely linked to their identification with their immediate surroundings. More importantly, these instances provide meaningful insights into the everyday realities of immigrant life, particularly as regards its emotional side. At the center of interest are everyday "landscapes" of difference: the ghetto's street environs, its tenement homes, and work environments in sweatshops and factories. "Landscape" is understood spatially, figuratively, and textually, for a discourse on difference and Otherness naturally entails a rhetoric of contrast and comparison.



中文翻译:

讲述差异的故事:卡恩,科恩和叶兹尔斯卡的《异域与对比的风景》中的移民身份刻画

本文力图探索空间,身份和归属于差异的“景观”之间的复杂关系。移民文学体裁与人类,空间和社会文化的差异密切相关,为探究与身份相关的事物的复杂性提供了绝佳的条件。在考察三个犹太裔美国人的叙述时-亚伯拉罕·卡汉(Ybra)(1896),罗斯·科恩(Rose Cohen)的《阴影之外》(1918)和安齐亚·叶兹尔斯卡(Anzia Yezierska)的《饥饿之心》(1920年)-该书以1880年代至1920年代之间存在于纽约下东区的犹太移民贫民窟为主要背景,文章阐明了各种例证,表明人们对他人和自己的看法-他们的认同感和认同感。归属感-与他们与周围环境的认同紧密相关。更重要的是,这些实例为移民生活的日常现实提供了有意义的见解,尤其是在情感方面。感兴趣的中心是每天的差异“风景”:贫民窟的街道周围,廉价住宅以及血汗工厂和工厂的工作环境。“风景”在空间,形象和文字上都可以理解,

更新日期:2021-03-16
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