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Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature : first-generation migrants from islands and peninsulas
- Title
- Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature : first-generation migrants from islands and peninsulas / Pauline T. Newton.
- Author
- Newton, Pauline T., 1974-
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS153.M56 N476 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 233 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This text explores the writings of female immigrants to the United States from tropical islands and peninsulas between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s, and the ways in which those writings represent the writers' migration experiences and the evolution of their transcultural identities.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
- Women immigrants > United States > Intellectual life
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Immigrants in literature
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- American literature
- American literature > Minority authors
- American literature > Women authors
- Immigrants' writings, American
- Women and literature
- Einwanderin
- Schriftstellerin
- Nationale Minderheit
- Einwanderung Motiv
- Roman
- Letterkunde
- Amerikaans
- Vrouwelijke auteurs
- Immigranten
- Immigratie
- Emigratie
- Women and literature > United States > 20th century
- Roman
- Geschichte 1900-2000
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.
- Contents
- Facing "broken mirrors" : reflections and refractions of migrations -- Accepting transculturality : disposing "La Mancha" and overcoming "La Lucha" in Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent dancing, The Latin deli, and Woman in front of the sun -- "Portable homelands" in Julia Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents, ¡Yo!, and Something to declare -- "It doesn't matter what you do or where you go" : fleeing cross-culturality in Jamaica Kincaid's A small place, Annie John, Lucy, and The autobiography of my mother -- "Jumping fences" of culture, gender, race, and class : migration and Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the white moon faces -- Attacking immigration "drunken monkey style" in Lan Cao's Monkey bridge -- Offering up a "common ground" : an interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer, December 7, 2000 -- "Cultural roots" vs. "cultural rot" : an interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim, September 29, 2000 -- "Different cultural lenses" : an interview with Lan Cao, October 24, 2000 -- Seeking "plateaus and even higher realms" : an interview with Frances Esquibel Tywoniak, September 15, 2000 -- Bringing the "U.S.'s and Vietnam's soul together" : an interview with Le Ly Hayslip, November 20, 2000 -- Influences of immigration : an interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, November 17, 2000.
- ISBN
- 0754652122
- 9780754652120
- LCCN
- 2004026336
- OCLC
- ocm57004008
- 57004008
- SCSB-1379678
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library