New Strangers in Paradise : The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction /
New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbert Muller reveals how the intersections of peoples, regions, and competing cultural histories have rem...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
1999.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Promised land, postwar fiction and the immigrant experience
- Haunted by the Holocaust, displaced persons and the American dream
- Migrant souls, the Chicano quest for national identity
- Metropolitan dreams, Latino voyagers from the Caribbean
- Middle passage, the African-Caribbean diaspora
- Gold mountains, the Asian-American odyssey
- Searching for America.