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245 10 $aTranscultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature :$bfirst-generation migrants from islands and peninsulas /$cPauline T. Newton.
260 $aAldershot, Hampshire, England :$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2005.
300 $aviii, 233 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction : facing "broken mirrors" : reflections and refractions of migrations -- 2. Accepting transculturality : disposing "La Mancha" and overcoming "La Lucha" in Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent dancing, The Latin deli and Woman in front of the sun -- 3. "Portable homelands" in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents, Yo! and Something to declare -- 4. "It doesn't matter what you do or where you go" : fleeing cross-culturality in Jamaica Kincaid's A small place, Annie John, Lucy and The autobiography of my mother -- 5. "Jumping fences" of culture, gender, race and class : migration and Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the white moon faces -- 6. Attacking immigration "drunken monkey style" in Lan Cao's Monkey bridge -- 7. Afterword -- "I sought answers; and I learned" : introduction to the interviews -- A. Offering up a "common ground" : an interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer, December 7, 2000 -- B. "Cultural roots" vs. "cultural rot" : an interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim, September 29, 2000 -- C. "Different cultural lenses" : an interview with Lan Cao, October 24, 2000 -- D. Seeking "plateaus and even higher realms" : an interview with Frances Esquibel Tywoniak, September 15, 2000 -- E. Bringing the "U.S.'s and Vietnam's soul together" : an interview with Le Ly Hayslip, November 20, 2000 -- F. Influences of immigration : an interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, November 17, 2000.
520 $aThis text explores the writings of female immigrants to the United States from tropical islands and peninsulas between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s, and the ways in which those writings represent the writers' migration experiences and the evolution of their transcultural identities.
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650 0 $aImmigrants' writings, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen immigrants$zUnited States$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration in literature.
650 0 $aImmigrants in literature.
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