WEISS, Michaela. American Literary Forms as Signs of Patriotism and Belonging in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land. Iudaica Russica. 2022, vol. 8, No 1, p. 1-11. ISSN 2657-8352. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.31261/IR.2022.08.08.
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Original name American Literary Forms as Signs of Patriotism and Belonging in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land
Authors WEISS, Michaela (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Iudaica Russica, 2022, 2657-8352.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher Poland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19240/22:A0001014
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/IR.2022.08.08
Keywords in English Mary Antin; American autobiography; captivity narratives; immigration narrative
Tags SGS102022, ÚCJ
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D., učo 48912. Changed: 20/1/2023 10:44.
Abstract
The paper explores the choice of narrative forms and ideology and their function in Mary Antin’s autobiography The Promised Land (1912). To emphasize her ardent support of assimilation and to persuade the American readers that immigrants from the Russian Empire pose no threat to the cultural and political life in America, Antin deliberately opted for autobiography and captivity narrative as genres which were already firmly established in American literature and culture. In her uncritical celebration of all aspects of American life, Antin employs Crevecouer’s concept of the American, as well as on the ideology of American transcendentalism.
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