New strangers in paradise : the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction

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Label

New strangers in paradise : the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction

Title remainder

the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction

Statement of responsibility

Gilbert H. Muller

Creator

• Muller, Gilbert H., 1941-

Subject

• Immigrants in literature
• Emigration and immigration in literature
• Minorities in literature
• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Ethnic groups in literature
• American fiction -- Minority authors | History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"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 means to be an American. New Strangers in Paradise explores the psychology of uprooted peoples and the relations of culture and power, addressing issues of race and ethnicity, multiculturalism and pluralism and national and international conflicts." "Examining the groups of immigrants in the cultural and historical context both of America and of the lands from which they originated, Muller argues that this "fourth wave" of immigration has led to a creative flowering in modern fiction. The book offers a fresh perspective on the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, William Styron, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Oscar Hijuelos, Jamaica Kincaid, Bharati Mukherjee, Rudolfo Anaya, and many others. These writers, Muller claims, are nation builders who have transformed and continue to change our national mythology as well as the literary canon."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography