TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowart,David
TI  - Trailing clouds: immigrant fiction in contemporary America 
T2  - Cornell paperbacks
SN  - 0801444691 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PS374.I48 C69 2006
U1  - 813/.5099206912 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Ithaca, N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Minority authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Immigrants in literature
KW  - Emigration and immigration in literature
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037545.html
ER  -