Trailing Clouds. Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America

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.

Издательство

Cornell University Press

Год

2006

Страниц

266

Язык

английский

ISBN

9780801472879