Immigrants Descent and its Expression in American Culture and Language in the 20th Century

• Authors: Rafał Zygmunt

Abstracts

EN

It is undoubtable that the immigration to the US is largely due to the steady ow of fresh minds and a new spirit that inuences the development of the American society. These new forces help protect the American society from the stagnation experienced in the Old World. The importance of immigrant experiences puts the United States on the brink of a very dicult, but often successful combination of the new and the old. Beyond question, this is true, especially regarding twentieth-century emigrants such as Eva Homan or the family of Alfred Kazin. Although Vladimir Nabokov having been himself an exception, not easy to categorize as writer, in his life as an ØmigrØ in the USA, he could also prove that the absorption of the American culture and language to a large extent took place, and was fruitful. For much of the twentieth century, the immigrant osmosis of the New World was associated with assimilation to the highly desirable, largely monolithic, English culture of the East Coast.

Keywords

EN

Tzvetan Todorov; Thomas and Znaniecki; Old World; New World; immigrant; identity; new culture; Vladimir Nabokov; translation; memories; Eva Homan; Alfred Kazin; émigré

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 169-180

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Rafał Zygmunt

• Państwowa Akademia Nauk Stosowanych w Chełmie: Instytut Neofilologii

• https://orcid.org/0000000290568729

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Identifiers

DOI

10.54515/lcp.2022.1.169-180

Biblioteka Nauki

2137564