 | Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America Subjects: American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Immigrants in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; "We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina... David Cowart is Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of several books, including Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language and Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing . |
