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050 00 $aPS374.I48$bC69 2006
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100 1 $aCowart, David,$d1947-
245 10 $aTrailing clouds :$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 Garcâia 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 : Myláene Dressler's The deadwood beetle -- Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree -- Closet and mask : Junot Dâiaz'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.
830 0 $aCornell paperbacks.
994 $aC0$bXIM