Historians and social scientists have frequently examined the
impact of post-war immigration on American culture. Until now,
literary critics have not.
New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of
the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by
the successive weaves of immigrants to reach U.S. shores in the
past fifty years. 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 Holocaust survivors, Chicanos, Latinos,
African Carribeans, and Asian Americans. In their quest for an
American identity, each of these groups has sought and revitalized
the America dream of riches and bounty for all.
The successive waves of immigrants are examined in the cultural
and historical context both on America and of the lands from which
they originated. Muller 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 cross and
recross national boundaries, creating a new canon that reveals the
evolution of a multi-cultural, pluralistic, incipiently
transnational civilization.
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