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...
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 249 pages ; 23 cm
9780801444692, 9780801472879, 0801444691, 0801472873
62742610
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