Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America

by David Cowart

Book Overview

"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina Garcia (born in Cuba), Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Wendy Law-Yone (born in Burma), Myl?ne Dressler (born in the Netherlands), Lan Cao (born in Vietnam), and such Korean-born authors as Chang-rae...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801472873
• ISBN13: 9780801472879
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"