Rights of Passage: Immigrant Fiction, Religious Ritual, and the Politics of Liminality, 1899-1939

The novels written by immigrants to the United States during the great wave of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveal a preoccupation with religious ritual as a major means through which they depict the tensions and dynamics at work in the immigration experience and...

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Main Author: Samal, Laura Patton
Published: Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2008
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Online Access:http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/343