Trailing clouds
Subtitle: immigrant fiction in contemporary America
By: David Cowart.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780801444692; 9780801472879
Subjects: American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Immigrants in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the new immigrant writing; title: Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet; title: Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents; title: Survival on the tangled bank : Hegi's The vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine; title: Language, dreams, and art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban; title: Korean connection : Chang-Rae Lee and company; title: Haitian Persephone : Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory; title: Assimilation and adolescence : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey bridge; title: Ethnicity as pentimento : Mylène Dressler's The deadwood beetle; title: Immigration as bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree; title: Closet and mask : Junot Díaz's Drown; title: Conclusion : we, them, us.