THE POLEMICS OF THE HEART: A STUDY OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ANZIA YEZIERSKA (JEWISH IMMIGRANT WOMEN).
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Title
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THE POLEMICS OF THE HEART: A STUDY OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ANZIA YEZIERSKA (JEWISH IMMIGRANT WOMEN).
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Identifier
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AAI8801738
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identifier
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8801738
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Creator
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MEER, ESTHER FAYGALE.
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Contributor
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Morris Dickstein
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, American
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Abstract
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Anzia Yezierska wrote about the problems of the Jewish immigrant woman who was trying to find her place in early twentieth-century American society. Though she was an autobiographer rather than a social historian, Yezierska teaches us much about the psychological and social problems of the immigrant.;She herself arrived here poor, undereducated, without even a basic knowledge of the English language, and her rise was literally a rags-to-riches American success story. However, she did not live happily ever after. Unable to adjust to her success--partly because she came from a culture in which poverty rather than riches was extolled, in which one suffered in this world and hoped to prosper in the next--she knew at firsthand what it felt like to be an "alien". She was never quite comfortable in the Old World or in the New World.;Taken as a whole, her works can be seen as studies of alienation--psychological, social and metaphysical.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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English
