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001 2005037545
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005 20061205111307.0
008 051222s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a0801444691 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0801472873 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPS374.I48$bC69 2006
082 00 $a813/.5099206912$222
084 $a18.06$2bcl
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 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.
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 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037545.html
830 0 $aCornell paperbacks.