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What's lost and gained in twentieth- and twenty-first-century experiences of emigration and immigration. Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and the main character's ambivalence about her colonial Antigua homeland. Edmundo Paz-Soldán's La materia del deseo (The Matter of Desire), the story of a Bolivian immigrant who finds he can never return to the homeland of his memories. A short story by Alberto Fuguet. Two stories by writers whose indigenous cultures were displaced by immigrants: the Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, which conveys the sense of loss experienced by the Laguna Pueblo Indians; and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, the coming-of-age story of a Chicano boy dealing with his Catholic, Native American, and Mexican roots
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