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Negotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction
2019. urn:nbn:hr:142:949707
Gavran, Ivana
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Gavran, I. (2019). Negotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:949707

Gavran, Ivana. "Negotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:949707

Gavran, Ivana. "Negotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:949707

Gavran, I. (2019). 'Negotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 03 April 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:949707

Gavran I. Negotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2019 [cited 2025 April 03] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:949707

I. Gavran, "Negotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2019. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:949707

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TitleNegotiating Otherness in Contemporary American Immigrant Fiction
Title (croatian)Problematiziranje drugosti u suvremenoj američkoj imigrantskoj prozi
AuthorIvana Gavran
MentorSanja Runtić (mentor)
Committee memberJasna Poljak Rehlicki (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberSanja Runtić (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberJadranka Zlomislić (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2019-10-28, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper discusses the notion of Otherness in contemporary American immigrant fiction by addressing issues such as ethnic diversity, transnational identities, identity quest, alienation, intergenerational relations within immigrant families, the linguistic, cultural, and social obstacles to assimilation, and the psychological and spiritual impact of dislocation. Employing William Boelhower’s model for interpreting American immigrant literature, developed in his study “The Immigrant Novel as... More Genre,” and Josip Novakovich and Robert Shapard’s concepts of the “stepmother tongue” and “stepmother-tongue stories,” the paper provides an introduction to American immigrant genre and one of its main concerns – the dynamics of identity and Otherness. The analysis focuses on three American immigrant texts – Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club (1989) and two short stories from the collection Stories in the Stepmother Tongue (2000), “The Winter Hibiscus” by Minfong Ho and “Happiness” by Bharati Mukherjee. It attempts to show that in all three texts, storytelling functions as a powerful narrative strategy that both reveals and resolves the characters’ state of in-betweenness and issues such as identity struggle, cultural and generational gap, (mis)communication, and cultural translation. Whereas The Joy Luck Club introduces the culturally specific narrative technique of the “talk story,” Ho and Mukherjee employ traditional third-person and first-person narrative style, respectively. Nevertheless, in all three texts, storytelling has a crucial role that enables the characters to discover, reclaim, and redefine their identities by voicing their hidden secrets and fears, bridging language barriers, reconstructing their histories and personal life stories, passing on their cultural heritage, and ultimately, celebrating their multiculturalism. By emphasizing the importance of the authors’ personal experiences and life stories in interpreting these texts, the paper also argues that American immigrant fiction is strongly related to the genre of autobiography. Less
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:949707
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Philology
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Hungarian Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Communication Training
Course: Communication Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra mađarskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra mađarskog jezika i književnosti)
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