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Author Katie Ahern

Katie Ahern

Katie Ahern is a PhD candidate in the School of English, University College Cork. Her research focuses on the representations of marginal characters in urban spaces in the twentieth-century American novel, with a particular interest in the writings of Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and Louise Erdrich.

“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers

Katie Ahern
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“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers Katie Ahern University College Cork Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American writer, most popular in the 1920s, and be... Read More...
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