Migration Systems And Literary Production
Migration Systems And Literary Production
The Global Routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun
This chapter examines the role played by literature in the movement of immigrants, one of the more prominent and controversial processes of globalization at the turn of the twentieth century. It looks at immigration as a process of circulation rather than absorption, involving not only one-way trips to the United States but also physical and cultural returns to the homeland. The chapter analyzes the transnational circulation of American money, products, and culture tackled by Abraham Cahan in The Rise of David Levinksy as well as Knut Hamsun's descriptions of U.S. society upon his return to Europe. It considers how migrant communities, through the routes of physical and material movement that they created and maintained, contributed to U.S. cultural hegemony while also acting as a medium for resisting and critiquing that same cultural imperialism.
Keywords: immigrants, literature, globalization, immigration, United States, money, Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinksy, Knut Hamsun, cultural imperialism
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