“…A middle-aged woman is catatonic, including being motionless and mute. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Etheredge Advises -- Albemarle Proposes -- Buckingham Disposes -- A Woman Scorned -- Buckingham's Heroics -- Buckingham's Gratitude -- Despair -- The Shadow of the Gallows -- The Sedan Chair -- The Abduction -- The Parley -- The Battle -- The Conqueror -- Under the Red Cross -- The Crisis -- The Walls of Pride -- Evasion -- Home -- The Dead-Cart -- The Pest-House -- Jesting Fortune -- The Miracle…”

“…A young woman from New York takes a tour of China, the land of her ancestors. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consuming Asian American history in Frank Chin's Donald Duk -- To eat, to buy, to be : consumption as identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers -- Feeding the spirit : mourning for the mother(land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman -- Fusion creations in Gus Lee's China Boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lord and Shepherd of the Water -- Four. The Pro cession of Women -- Five. A Woman at a Well -- Conclusion: Paradise Restored -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Ancient Sources…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Stories, Memories, and Mechanisms of Belief -- The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off His Bride: Pejoration and Adjacency Pairs in ATU 365 -- The Elf Woman's Conversion: Memories of Gender and Gender Spheres -- The Fylgjur of Iceland: Attendant Spirits and a Distorted Sense of Guardianship -- The Elf Church: Memories of Contested Sacred Spaces -- The Stupid Boy and the Devil: Sæmundur Fróði Sigfússon, Magic, and Redemption --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stories, memories, and mechanisms of belief -- The dead bridegroom carries off his bride: pejoration and adjacency pairs in ATU 365 -- The elf woman's conversion: memories of gender and gender spheres -- The Fylgjur of Iceland: attendant spirits and a distorted sense of guardianship -- The elf church: memories of contested sacred spaces -- The stupid boy and the devil: Sæmundur fróđi Sigfússon, magic, and redemption…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1: Mercury's Sandals: The Jews and Other Nomads 4 CHAPTER 2: Swann's Nose: The Jews and Other Moderns 40 CHAPTER 3: Babel's First Love: The Jews and the Russian Revolution 105 CHAPTER 4: Hodl's Choice: The Jews and Three Promised Lands 204 Notes 373 Index 413…”