Immigrant Memoirs in the Service of Americanization: Between “the Melting Pot” and Cultural Pluralism

This article analyzes four immigrant memoirs – Mary Antin’s The Promised Land (1912); Jacob Cash’s What America Means to Me (1925); Constantine Panunzio’s The Soul of an Immigrant (1922), and M. E. Ravage’s An American in the Making (1917) – in the light of their contribution to the nationwide debat...

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Main Author: Anita Jarczok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2021-07-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/17128