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Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America »
Authors: David Cowart
ISBN-13: 9780801472879, ISBN-10: 0801472873
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: David Cowart
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Introduction : the new immigrant writing | 1 | |
| 1 | Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet | 14 |
| 2 | Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents | 41 |
| 3 | Survival on the tangled bank : Hegi's The vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine | 55 |
| 4 | Language, dreams, and art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban | 86 |
| 5 | Korean connection : Chang-rae Lee and company | 101 |
| 6 | Haitian Persephone : Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory | 126 |
| 7 | Assimilation and adolescence : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge | 138 |
| 8 | Ethnicity as pentimento : Mylene Dressler's The Deadwood beetle | 160 |
| 9 | Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree | 172 |
| 10 | Closet and mask : Junot Diaz's Drown | 190 |
| Conclusion : we, them, us | 205 |
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