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Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature : first-generation migrants from islands and peninsulas

Title
  1. Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature : first-generation migrants from islands and peninsulas / Pauline T. Newton.
Published by
  1. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
Author
  1. Newton, Pauline T., 1974-

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Description
  1. viii, 233 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. 1900-1999
  2. American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
  3. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  4. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  5. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  6. Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
  7. Women immigrants > United States > Intellectual life
  8. Emigration and immigration in literature
  9. Immigrants in literature
  10. 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  11. American literature
  12. American literature > Minority authors
  13. American literature > Women authors
  14. Immigrants' writings, American
  15. Women and literature
  16. Einwanderin
  17. Schriftstellerin
  18. Nationale Minderheit
  19. Einwanderung Motiv
  20. Roman
  21. Letterkunde
  22. Amerikaans
  23. Vrouwelijke auteurs
  24. Immigranten
  25. Immigratie
  26. Emigratie
  27. Women and literature > United States > 20th century
  28. Roman
  29. Geschichte 1900-2000
  30. United States
  31. USA
  32. USA
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.