Date of Award
2002
Level of Access Assigned by Author
Open-Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Advisor
Benjamin Friedlander
Second Committee Member
Naomi Jacobs
Third Committee Member
Patricia Burnes
Abstract
My thesis is an exploration of turn-of-the-century immigrant and minority fiction. I deal specifically with the marginalization of minorities who live in ghettos, how and why such a demarcated place and space informs their social identity, and the function and ramifications of the assimilation process on those individuals, as shown in the fiction of Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, and Zitkala-Sa.
Recommended Citation
Morgan, Tabitha Adams, "Ghetto Regionalism: Place, Identity, and Assimilation in the Fiction of Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, and Zitkala-Sa" (2002). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 35.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/35