Panel: The Stranger in a Strange Land
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
21-3-1990 12:00 PM
End Date
21-3-1990 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 21, 1990, as part of the 21st Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Literature of Immigration,” Lore Segal, James J. McAuley, and Ron Vossler participate in a panel called “The Stranger in a Strange Land.” The panelists discuss their experience as immigrants to the United States, transition to life in the United States for European immigrants, immigrant stories, passing on stories to children, the advantages and disadvantages of different immigrant groups, language and accent issues for immigrants, generalization and stereotypes, the geographical shock for people immigrating from small countries, aesthetic distance, and alienation.
Moderated by William Sherman.
Panel: The Stranger in a Strange Land
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 21, 1990, as part of the 21st Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Literature of Immigration,” Lore Segal, James J. McAuley, and Ron Vossler participate in a panel called “The Stranger in a Strange Land.” The panelists discuss their experience as immigrants to the United States, transition to life in the United States for European immigrants, immigrant stories, passing on stories to children, the advantages and disadvantages of different immigrant groups, language and accent issues for immigrants, generalization and stereotypes, the geographical shock for people immigrating from small countries, aesthetic distance, and alienation.
Moderated by William Sherman.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1990/day2/3
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.