Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America / David Cowart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowart, David, 1947-

Series:

Cornell paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Minority authors.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Immigrants in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 249 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction : the new immigrant writing

Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet

Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents

Survival on the tangled bank : Hegi's The vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine

Language, dreams, and art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban

Korean connection : Chang-rae Lee and company

Haitian Persephone : Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory

Assimilation and adolescence : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey bridge

Ethnicity as pentimento : Mylène Dressler's The deadwood beetle

Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree

Closet and mask : Junot Díaz's Drown

Conclusion : we, them, us.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-237) and index.

ISBN:

0801444691

0801472873

OCLC:

62742610

Publisher Number:

9780801444692

9780801472879