Willa Cather
Immigration, Race and Hair, Through Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Eyes
From the Austrian-Jewish Lower East Side in Henry Roth’s “Call It Sleep,” to the Norwegian Nebraska plains in Willa Cather’s “My Antonia” to Dominican New Jersey in Junot Diaz’s “The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao,” the immigrant experience has long been part and parcel of the American literary tradition. “Americanah,” the new novel by celebrated author […]
