Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska. Specifically, it will focus mainly (without ignoring the rest of the novel) on the concept of the father, as well as on the concepts of Nativism and Nation. "Bread Givers" is the moving story of one young woman's str Continue Reading...
Bread Givers -- America gives nothing, not even opportunity freely, without demanding something in exchange
America is the land of the free, in its political theory and its popular rhetoric. Yet in the harsh realities of American capitalism, especi Continue Reading...
Ethnicity and American Identity
The basic conception of American identity in the years between Cahan's Yekl, Yezierska's The Bread Givers, and Morrison's The Bluest Eye, is essentially unchanged. Each of the characters in these novels face a concept Continue Reading...