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  • Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace
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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
Articles, Issue 4 2015
Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American writer, most popular in the 1920s, and best known for her texts on the struggles of immigrants in America. She achieved fame in the 1910s for her efforts to accurately repr... Read More...
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