New strangers in paradise
Subtitle: the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction
By: Gilbert H. Muller.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.; Immigrants in literature.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Emigration and immigration in literature.; Ethnic groups in literature.; Minorities in literature.
Description: "Muller focuses on the literature of Holocaust survivors, Chicanos, Latinos, African Caribbeans, and Asian Americans. In the quest for a new identity, each of these groups seeks the American dream and rewrites the story of what it means to be an American. New Strangers in Paradise explores the psychology of uprooted peoples and the relations of culture and power, addressing issues of race and ethnicity, multiculturalism and pluralism and national and international conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.

"Examining the groups of immigrants in the cultural and historical context both of America and of the lands from which they originated, Muller argues that this "fourth wave" of immigration has led to a creative flowering in modern fiction. The book offers a fresh perspective on the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, William Styron, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Oscar Hijuelos, Jamaica Kincaid, Bharati Mukherjee, Rudolfo Anaya, and many others.

These writers, Muller claims, are nation builders who have transformed and continue to change our national mythology as well as the literary canon."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.