Second arrivals
Subtitle: landscape and belonging in contemporary writing of the Americas
By: Sarah Phillips Casteel.
Series: New World studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813926384; 9780813926391
Subjects: English literature -- North America -- History and criticism; English literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Caribbean literature, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th cntury -- History and criticism; Landscape in literature; Minorities in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Garden writing; Installations (Art)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: V.S. Naipaul's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial pastorals; title: The myth of the West in Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth; title: Joy Kogawa's native envy; title: Jamaica Kincaid's and Michael Pollan's New World garden writing; title: Marvelous and gothic gardens in Shani Mootoo, Gisèle Pineau, and Maryse Condé; title: Landscape and indigeneity in the installation art of Isaac Julien and Jin-Me Yoon.