Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary immigrant short fiction / editor, Robert C. Evans.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Robert C., 1955-

Description

xxiii, 251 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
• Short stories, American > History and criticism

Note

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

About this volume / Robert C. Evans -- On contemporary immigrant short fiction / Natalie Friedman -- O. E. Rølvaag in his various historical contexts / Solveig Zempel -- American immigrant short fiction : an overview of recent critical resources / Robert C. Evans -- Formalism and Latino "flash fiction"/ Robert C. Evans -- Forbidden desires : interracial relationships in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri's short fiction / Anupama Arora -- Divinity and ekphrasis : DeLillo's short fiction, 1990 to 2015 / John Paul Russo -- Somewhat queer triangles : Yiyun Li's "The Princess of Nebraska" and "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl" / King-Kok Cheung -- The migrant writes : a reading of Ha Jin's short fiction collections Under the Red Flag and A Good Fall / Te-hsing Shan -- "Even the dead make noises" : silence and language in Ernesto Quiñonez's stories / Bridget Kevane -- Heroic insecurity in Junot Díaz's Drown and This Is How You Lose Her / David A. Colón -- Resignifying wounds through silences in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker / Rebecca Fuchs -- The constructed island : experimentation and reference in Ana Menéndez's Adios, Happy Homeland! / Alli Carlisle -- Artistry, thematic criticism, and two short stories by Randa Jarrar / Robert C. Evans -- Irony and epistolary form in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter" and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck" / Maryse Jayasuriya -- Immigration, irony, and vision in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies / Brian Yothers -- Works of contemporary immigrant short fiction.

Call Number

JFE 16-2114

ISBN

• 9781619258327
• 1619258323

OCLC

926736875

Title

Contemporary immigrant short fiction / editor, Robert C. Evans.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-2114