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Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America / David Cowart.

By: Series: Cornell paperbacksPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.Description: xii, 249 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0801444691 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801472873 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780801444692
  • 9780801472879
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.5099206912 22
LOC classification:
  • PS374.I48 C69 2006
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : the new immigrant writing -- Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet -- Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the GarciÌa 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 : MyleÌne Dressler's The deadwood beetle -- Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree -- Closet and mask : Junot DiÌaz's Drown -- Conclusion : we, them, us.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS374 .I48 C69 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001005544

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index.

Introduction : the new immigrant writing -- Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet -- Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the GarciÌa 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 : MyleÌne Dressler's The deadwood beetle -- Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree -- Closet and mask : Junot DiÌaz's Drown -- Conclusion : we, them, us.

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