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Immigrant Fiction

Immigrant Fiction is a genre of literary narrative that centers on the experiences, identities, and socio-cultural transitions of individuals or communities migrating from their homeland to a new nation, distinguished by its thematic focus on displacement, assimilation, hybridity, and the intergenerational negotiation of belonging within host societies.

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70

Authors

24

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2017–2026

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Publications

71

Ethnic passages: literary immigrants in twentieth-century America

Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 244 citations

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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Tomaz Cunningham · The Journal of Haitian Studies · 2011 · 171 citations

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The City, the Immigrant, and American Fiction, 1880-1920

Richard Tuerk, David M. Fine · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States · 1978 · 105 citations

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Migrant identities: Personal memory and the construction of selfhood

Keya Ganguly · Cultural Studies · 1992 · 101 citations

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Visions and divisions: American immigration literature, 1870-1930

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 80 citations

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Authors

70

  1. MS
    Mário Sant'Ana

    Universidad de Magallanes, Chile

    2 publications · 81 citations

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  2. MJ
    Magdalena J. Zaborowska

    Swarthmore College, United States

    2 publications · 74 citations

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  3. RD
    Richard D. E. Burton

    University of Florida, United States

    1 publications · 55 citations

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  4. JF
    Jean Franco

    Columbia University, United States

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. KC
    Kenneth C. Kaleta

    1 publications · 38 citations

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Institutions

24

  1. Texas State University

    San Marcos, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    210 citations

  2. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  3. University of Warsaw

    Warsaw, Poland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  4. Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  5. Truman State University

    Kirksville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  6. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    35 citations

  7. Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, Spain

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    90 citations

  8. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 12 publications · 725 citations

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  3. Modern fiction studies

    MFS · 4 publications · 127 citations

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  4. American Literature

    3 publications · 126 citations

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  5. Journal of Postcolonial Writing

    2 publications · 36 citations

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