America and I | Critical Overview
Published in the 1923 collection Children of Loneliness, ‘‘America and I’’ is one of three autobiographical essays through which Yezierska relates aspects of the immigrant experience. This book includes pieces that reiterate the author’s major themes of the conflicts between the Old World and the New World, and the desire to be a crucial part of America.
Despite such fundamental similarities to 1920s Hungry Hearts, which helped drive Yezierska’s early success, this volume drew less attention. Many Jewish critics reproved Yezierska for her rendering of...
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