According to the Introduction to Crossing Into America, by Louis Mendoza and S. Shankar,
This crossing into America, as the reader will see, is not one thing alone—it is freedom and death,violence and happiness, hate and love. The story of that crossing, too, is not made into literature in one way alone—there are poems and short stories, essays and excerpts from novels, letters and excerpts from memoirs. There are easily recognized names and others most readers will be encountering for the first time (xxiv).
This literature in the book proves that many immigrants have different experiences along their crossing, ever since the new Immigration began in 1965 Hart Cellar act, where immigrants left their countries for new lives journey in America. Many immigrants share their untold stories and one of these is the memoir, “My New World Journey,” by an African writer, Nola Kambanda. In the essay, she describes her journey being separated in her home and living in a different environment America, for greater opportunities where she start fitting-in with the people and live her new life. “My New World Journey,” is an important example of the New Literature of Immigration because it presents the idea of becoming American, and appreciating America …show more content…
In her memoir, she convey that, “Coming to California from Burundi— place that I had come to call home, a place that was different in every aspect from the United States— I was in complete awe”(147). For Kambanda, her home is different from America where she describes luxurious lifestyle of the American. She even added that, it is a privilege to be in the country that is known to be the richest and most advance in technology. For her being in the new world is a journey that needs to be face which shows the struggle leaving home and moving to
This crossing into America, as the reader will see, is not one thing alone—it is freedom and death,violence and happiness, hate and love. The story of that crossing, too, is not made into literature in one way alone—there are poems and short stories, essays and excerpts from novels, letters and excerpts from memoirs. There are easily recognized names and others most readers will be encountering for the first time (xxiv).
This literature in the book proves that many immigrants have different experiences along their crossing, ever since the new Immigration began in 1965 Hart Cellar act, where immigrants left their countries for new lives journey in America. Many immigrants share their untold stories and one of these is the memoir, “My New World Journey,” by an African writer, Nola Kambanda. In the essay, she describes her journey being separated in her home and living in a different environment America, for greater opportunities where she start fitting-in with the people and live her new life. “My New World Journey,” is an important example of the New Literature of Immigration because it presents the idea of becoming American, and appreciating America …show more content…
In her memoir, she convey that, “Coming to California from Burundi— place that I had come to call home, a place that was different in every aspect from the United States— I was in complete awe”(147). For Kambanda, her home is different from America where she describes luxurious lifestyle of the American. She even added that, it is a privilege to be in the country that is known to be the richest and most advance in technology. For her being in the new world is a journey that needs to be face which shows the struggle leaving home and moving to