Immigrants to USA in Literature and Film

Immigrants to USA in Literature and Film –

The insightful essays of this volume are a timely contribution to mapping the immigrant experience. This collection, with its sustained focus on literary and filmic interpretations, navigates territory customarily uninvestigated in the emerging field of (im)migration research. (Dr. Paulette Dellios) No reader could come away from these essays, in both parts of the volume, without a keener understanding of the human cost of migration – a cost which must often outweigh the perceived benefits to the migrants of their uprooting. (Dr. Colin Swatridge) The volume “Immigrants to USA in Literature and Film” is impactful by its timeliness in today’s world where mass migration, with its unimaginable costs in terms of human suffering and loss, must be understood and dealt with. The essays in this volume focus on the voices of voiceless migrants – the poor, the displaced, the misunderstood, the isolated, the culturally confused, those who cannot adapt, those who lose their culture, those who suffer the consequences of cruelty inflicted by their own culture, and those who lose their identity altogether through this experience. (Prof. Luci Stueven)