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Immigration Issues: Steinbeck’s Continuing Relevance
- Steinbeck Review
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 12, Number 1, 2015
- pp. 16-25
- Article
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Although it chronicles the difficulties of Oklahoma migrants more than seventy-five years ago, the problems of migrations nationally and internationally document the continuing relevance of The Grapes of Wrath. One reads in current news stories about the perilous journeys and hostile treatment migrants and immigrants face. The novel outlines an archetype of their stories.