Recommended readings from Dr. Liz Rodrigues' course "Becoming American: Immigrant Narratives and US Autobiography"
March 20, 2019
Autobiographies referenced
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912)
Constantine Panunzio, Soul of an Immigrant (1921)
(this one is difficult to find in print but is available scanned through hathitrust.org)
Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart (1946)
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, ed. Peter Orner (2008)
Background reading
Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)
Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance (1993)
Sidonie Smith & Julia Watson, Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narrative
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912)
Constantine Panunzio, Soul of an Immigrant (1921)
(this one is difficult to find in print but is available scanned through hathitrust.org)
Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart (1946)
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, ed. Peter Orner (2008)
Background reading
Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)
Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance (1993)
Sidonie Smith & Julia Watson, Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narrative