New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction

by Gilbert H. Muller

Book Overview

New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbert Muller reveals how the intersections of peoples, regions, and competing cultural histories have remade the American cultural landscape in the aftermath of World War II. Muller focuses on the literature of Holocaust survivors, Chicanos, Latinos, African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813192005
• ISBN13: 9780813192000
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher