Bibliograph

Trailing clouds, immigrant fiction in contemporary America, David Cowart

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Trailing clouds, immigrant fiction in contemporary America, David Cowart

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Trailing clouds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62742610

Responsibility statement

David Cowart

Series statement

Cornell paperbacks

Sub title

immigrant fiction in contemporary America

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

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