Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America / David Cowart.
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.