Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 270 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0813150132
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0813121345
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9780813150130
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9780813121345
Content:
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 remade the American cultural landscape in the aftermath of World War II. Muller focuses on the literature of Holocaust survivors, Chicanos, Latinos, African Caribbeans, and Asian Americans. In the quest for a new identity, each of these groups seeks the American dream and rewrites the story of what it
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813121345
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813121345
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Muller, Gilbert H., 1941- New strangers in paradise Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1999
Language:
English
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