Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America /
"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina Garcia (born in Cuba), Edwidge Danticat (bor...
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2006.
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Table of 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.