Road to a New Self: Urban Environment in the Reimagination of a Migrant’s Identity in Gimme the Money by Iva Pekarkova
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RIS BIB ENDNOTERoad to a New Self: Urban Environment in the Reimagination of a Migrant’s Identity in Gimme the Money by Iva Pekarkova
Data publikacji: 03.2020
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2020, Volume 15, Issue 1, s. 13 - 25
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.20.002.11746Autorzy
There is no other place in the world where the impact of migration is more vivid than in the streets of New York City, which is often considered to be one of the greatest cultural centers, that has been welcoming immigrants from all over the world. It is precisely them, labourers, business owners, taxi drivers, who by being the essential part of New York City’s diversity are constantly redefining its identity and whose own identities are being transformed and reimagined through the interaction with the city. In Gimme the Money Iva Pekarkova turns to New York City in order to show the immigrant identity as an identity in movement by making a leading character cruising around the city as a cab lady and by referring to the city both as to the exterior setting and the interior landscape of the leading character’s mind. The paper will offer the analysis of the personal transformation of the heroine, who because of the persistent sense of dislocation and constant observation of the city reimagines herself by relating to New York City’s streets and by becoming the part of the community of urban residents finds herself a new home.
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Informacje: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2020, Volume 15, Issue 1, s. 13 - 25
Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy
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Road to a New Self: Urban Environment in the Reimagination of a Migrant’s Identity in Gimme the Money by Iva Pekarkova
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Publikacja: 03.2020
Status artykułu: Otwarte
Licencja: CC BY-NC-ND
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