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Title
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Gifts from home: Material culture and American immigrant women in the 20th century.
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Creator
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Thur, Victoria L., Florida Atlantic University, Norman, Sandra
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Abstract/Description
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This thesis will explore material culture by focusing on textiles and needlework of American immigrant women in the twentieth-century. It will feature three textiles: the Fishman bris dress from Britain, traditional Ukrainian embroidery, and refugee Hmong story cloths. Material culture is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates a wide variety of sources, theories, and interpretations. Social history incorporates voices and sources that have been disregarded in the mainstream narrative....
Show moreThis thesis will explore material culture by focusing on textiles and needlework of American immigrant women in the twentieth-century. It will feature three textiles: the Fishman bris dress from Britain, traditional Ukrainian embroidery, and refugee Hmong story cloths. Material culture is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates a wide variety of sources, theories, and interpretations. Social history incorporates voices and sources that have been disregarded in the mainstream narrative. Without scholarship in material culture, these sources would be lost forever. Textiles and their study allow for a wider and more inclusive interpretation of the American experience as immigrant and female. Most immigrant women do not hand down traditional primary documents. The everyday object allows historians to pursue historical imagination through material culture. Material culture scholarship and various sub-fields, allow these voices to be included in the canon of the American historical experience.
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Date Issued
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2006
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13402
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Subject Headings
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Material culture--Semiotic models, Symbolic anthropology, Symbolic interactionism, United States--Emigration and immigration, Women immigrants--United States
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Document (PDF)
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Bread givers and other nurturers.
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Mincho, Jane., Florida Atlantic University, Nathan, Norman
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Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts share the common themes of the restrictions placed on women, daughters of recent immigrants, who suffered from poverty, discrimination, and sexual repression both from within and without their cultural milieu. Woman Warrior is an epic poem, history mixed with myth, while Bread Givers is a fevered morality tale. Yezierska's world was full of Jewish patriarchal edicts, Kingston's bore...
Show moreAnzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts share the common themes of the restrictions placed on women, daughters of recent immigrants, who suffered from poverty, discrimination, and sexual repression both from within and without their cultural milieu. Woman Warrior is an epic poem, history mixed with myth, while Bread Givers is a fevered morality tale. Yezierska's world was full of Jewish patriarchal edicts, Kingston's bore the weight of matriarchal definition of her Chinese ancestor's beliefs. The mutual and overwhelming need to break the barriers of enforced silence created two rich human documents which by their very nature mediate the seemingly irreconcilable. Whether they are considered fiction, memoirs, or elegies, both books' outstanding contribution is reinforcement of the concept of self-determination which was attained without destroying either author's ethnic or cultural heritage.
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Date Issued
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1988
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14473
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Subject Headings
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Yezierska, Anzia,--1880?-1970.--Bread givers., Kingston, Maxine Hong.--Woman warrior., Women immigrants--United States.
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Document (PDF)
