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100 1 _aCowart, David,
_d1947-
245 1 0 _aTrailing clouds :
_bimmigrant fiction in contemporary America /
_cDavid Cowart.
260 _aIthaca, N.Y. :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2006.
300 _axii, 249 p. ;
_c23 cm.
490 1 _aCornell paperbacks
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xMinority authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aImmigrants in literature.
650 0 _aEmigration and immigration in literature.
856 4 1 _zTable of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037545.html
830 0 _aCornell paperbacks.
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