Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature
Subtitle: first-generation migrants from islands and peninsulas
By: Pauline T. Newton.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Ashgate; Ashgate Pub Co
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism.; Women immigrants -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Emigration and immigration in literature.; Immigrants in literature.
Description: This text explores the writings of female immigrants to the United States from tropical islands and peninsulas between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s, and the ways in which those writings represent the writers' migration experiences and the evolution of their transcultural identities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.