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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11381083.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.".
- catalog description "Promised land, postwar fiction and the immigrant experience -- Haunted by the Holocaust, displaced persons and the American dream -- Migrant souls, the Chicano quest for national identity -- Metropolitan dreams, Latino voyagers from the Caribbean -- Middle passage, the African-Caribbean diaspora -- Gold mountains, the Asian-American odyssey -- Searching for America.".
- catalog extent "x, 270 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "New strangers in paradise.".
- catalog identifier "0813121345 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New strangers in paradise.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "New strangers in paradise.".
- catalog subject "813/.54093520691 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Minority authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Emigration and immigration in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic groups in literature.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants in literature.".
- catalog subject "Minorities in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.I48 M85 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Promised land, postwar fiction and the immigrant experience -- Haunted by the Holocaust, displaced persons and the American dream -- Migrant souls, the Chicano quest for national identity -- Metropolitan dreams, Latino voyagers from the Caribbean -- Middle passage, the African-Caribbean diaspora -- Gold mountains, the Asian-American odyssey -- Searching for America.".
- catalog title "New strangers in paradise : the immigrant experience and".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".