From the Outer World

By: Oscar Handlin

Book Overview

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. The narratives of the non-Europeans, they find, clearly reflect the circumstances of their composition, as well as the political prejudices of their authors. These literary products have earned far less attention than those of the English, French, Germans, and Russians, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674326407
• ISBN13: 9780674326408
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"