Cowart, David,  1947- <br/><br/>
Trailing clouds :  immigrant fiction in contemporary America / 
David Cowart. 
 - Ithaca, N.Y. :  Cornell University Press,  2006. 
 - xii, 249 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Cornell paperbacks .
 - Cornell paperbacks. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801444691 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801472873 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780801444692 9780801472879 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005037545 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA636622  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.<br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Immigrants in literature.<br/>Emigration and immigration in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.I48  / C69 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.5099206912