Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Class in Monica Krawczyk’s Short Stories
Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Class in Monica Krawczyk’s Short Stories
Author(s): Anca-Luminita IancuSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Rural and urban sociology, Ethnic Minorities Studies, American Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: ethnic women writers; ethnic fiction; Polish Americans; gender roles; ethnic and American women; rural vs. urban spaces;
Summary/Abstract: According to various researchers, Monica Krawczyk (1887-1954) was the first Polish-American writer whose stories about Polish- American immigrants were published in well-known American magazines in the 1930s and 1940s, and later, in 1950, in a collection entitled If the Branch Blossoms and Other Stories. Most of the short stories revolve around the daily life of Polish-American immigrants in Minnesota. This essay proposes a close reading of two short stories in the collection, “After His Own” and “Wedding in the City,” with a view to illustrating how gender, ethnicity, and social class intersect in the ethnic and American spaces navigated by Krawczyk’s characters, and the ways in which they impact the female protagonists’ identities as women, wives, and mother
Journal: East-West Cultural Passage
- Issue Year: 25/2025
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 209-231
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
