List Books » Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Authors: Matthew Frye Jacobson, David Roediger, David Roediger
ISBN-13: 9780520233423, ISBN-10: 0520233425
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: May 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies at Yale University and author of Whiteness of a Different Color (1998) and Barbarian Virtues (2000).
"Jacobson's book impressively lives up to its stark and splendid title, which is borrowed from Polish-Jewish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg's capsule description of the bonds uniting people into nations. For the immigrants whom Jacobson considers, nationalist sorrows seemed especially tragic, as they were felt and resisted in exile from the nations whose causes were being championed. Special Sorrows carefully delineates the centrality of Jewish, Polish and Irish supporters in the United States to national liberation movements abroad and, as expertly, details how such movements shaped immigrant life in the United States."David Roediger, from the Foreword
Foreword to the 2002 Edition | ||
Note on Usage | ||
Introduction : The Diasporic Imagination | 1 | |
1 | Exiles, Pilgrims, Wanderers: Migration in the Context of National Struggle | 13 |
2 | Plaintive Song, Heroic Story: Nationalism and Immigrant Popular Culture | 54 |
3 | Pillars of Fire: The Comparative Literatures of Immigrant Nationalism | 94 |
4 | Cuba Libre! Immigrant Versions of Spanish Tyranny, Cuban Rights, and American Power | 141 |
5 | Windows on Imperialism: Nationalism, Race, and the Conquest of the Philippines | 177 |
Conclusion: The Diasporic Imagination in the Twentieth Century | 217 | |
Afterword to the 2002 Edition | 245 | |
Glossary of Names | 251 | |
Notes | 257 | |
Index | 321 |