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The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

Matthew Frye Jacobson

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ISBN 9780674831858

Publication Date: 02/24/1995

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Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination
I. The Culture of the Diaspora
- 1. Exiles, Pilgrims, Wanderers: Migration in the Context of National Struggle
- 2. Plaintive Song, Heroic Story: Nationalism and Immigrant Popular Culture
- 3. Pillars of Fire: The Comparative Literatures of Immigrant Nationalism
II. Nationalist Sensibility and American Expansionism
- 4. Cuba Libre! Immigrant Versions of Spanish Tyranny, Cuban Rights, and American Power
- 5. Windows on Imperialism: Nationalism, Race, and the Conquest of the Philippines
Conclusion: The Diasporic Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Glossary of Names
Notes
Index

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