Looking Forward, Looking Back

List of Figures and Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Corpus The Historical and Personal Dimension of the Narratives Part II: Theory: Image Studies Functions Aspects of Image Studies in Children's Literature Research Migration Narratives Part III: The Country of Origin: Russia Push-factor Anti-Semitism Push-factor Poverty Books without Push-factors History and Historiography as a Frame of Reference Cold War Ideology and Paratextual Clues Disappearance of the Shtetl Visual Russia: Samovars, Soldiers and the Absence of Poverty Two Examples: Russia as the Contrapuntal Image Conclusion Part IV: The Target Country: America Dreaming about America: the Image, its Origin and Variations in an Eastern European Jewish Context The American Dream in Children's Literature: Narrative Patterns and Traditions The American Dream in the Corpus Part V: The American Dream and Its Poetic Functions in Migration Narratives for Children New York's Lower East Side and the Exposure of the American Dream Innocent Children and Sceptical Adults: the Image of America as a Device of Characterization Laughing at America's Gold: the Image as a Humorous Device Part VI: Adapting an Immigrant Autobiography. Mary Antin's The Promised Land (1912) and Rosemary Wells's Streets of Gold (1999), Illustrated by Dan Andreasen Mary Antin: The Promised Land Rosemary Wells: Streets of Gold Conclusion Part VII: Conclusion Part VIII: References Index