The possessive self in Mary Antin and Anzia Yezierska: gender, Jewishness, and the assumptions of Americanization

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American Jewish writers Mary Antin and Anzia Yezierska demonstrate contrasting attitudes toward their adoption of the US as their homeland in two stories. Antin, in her story 'The Promised Land,' views her American citizenship as totally giving her the right to figuratively possess America and its heritage. On the other hand, Yezierka's tale 'The Free Vacation House' tells of the absurd claims to possession that are absolutely denied.

Jews, Jewish identity, Americanization, Promised Land (Short fiction), Free Vacation House (Short fiction), Antin, Mary

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"Go, make yourself for a person": urbanity and the construction of an American identity in the novels of Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska

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Abraham Cahan's 'The Rise of David Levinsky' and Anzia Yezierska's 'Bread Givers,' published in the early 20th century, portray Eastern European Jewish immigrants constructing a middle-class American identity. Characters in these books were born into a culture of scarcity and the stories explore contradictions and tensions in adjusting to material abundance.

Immigrants, Jews, American, American Jews, Cahan, Abraham

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Boundaries lost: Thorstein Veblen, 'The Higher Learning in America,' and the conspicuous spouse

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Thorstein Veblen's 1918 'The Higher Education in America' argued the commercial concerns corrupted research universities by the late 19th century. He presented this work as a detached critique but it mirrored the significant personal investment of its author and his first wife, a gender nonconformist.

Analysis, Business and education, Industry and education, Veblen, Thorstein

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