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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The New Immigrant Writing 1 Slavs of New York: Being There, Mr. Sammler's Planet 2 Immigration and Primal Scene: Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 3 Survival on the Tangled Bank: Hegi's The Vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine 4 Language, Dreams, and Art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban 5 Korean Connection: Chang-rae Lee and Company 6 Haitian Persephone: Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory 7 Assimilation and Adolescence: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge 8 Ethnicity as Pentimento: Mylène Dressler's The Deadwood Beetle 9 Immigration as Bardo: Wendy Law-Yone's The Coffin Tree 10 Closet and Mask: Junot Díaz's Drown Conclusion: We, Them, Us Notes Works Cited Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Immigrants in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.