title: New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage
author: Alpana S. Sharma
description: Editor Knippling (postcolonial literature, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln) has put together a unique, comprehensive, and versatile introduction to the contributions of immigrants to the post-World War II literature of the United States. The book is organized into sections devoted to Asian American, Caribbean American, European American, and Latin American literatures, with individual chapters treating such previously neglected groups as Pakistani Americans, Korean Americans, and Finnish Americans. Wherever possible, the writings of immigrant women are discussed. Most chapters focus on English-language sources, but some discuss non-English writing. A helpful treatment of languages and translation fill out the dominant discussion of works in English. Also included where appropriate are prose, nonfiction, and autobiographical texts, as well as work in new media, such as music performance, film, and television. The work performs two complementary but very different functions. First, each of the 22 chapters on individual immigrant literatures gives basic information about the ethnic group, its culture, and its immigrant history in the United States, which with the notes and a comprehensive bibliography results in a concise reference chapter on that particular group's contribution to U.S. literature. Second, each chapter contains expert critical and interpretive essays on the dominant concerns, major authors, early and recent works, and prevailing genres of each group, satisfying the scholar's need for critical and contextual perspective. Recommended for academic and larger collections.?Paul A. D'Alessandro, Portland P.L., Me.<br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: West of the Border
  
  West of the Border
  The Multicultural  Literature 
  of the Western American Frontiers
  T Noreen Groover Lape
  Ohio University Press
  ATHENS
  
  Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
  © 2000 by Noreen Lape
  Printed in the United States of America
  All rights reserved
  Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Lape , Noreen Groover, 1966–
  West of the border : the multicultural literature of the Western American frontiers /
  Noreen Groover Lape.
  p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0-8214-1345-7 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8214-1346-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1. American literature—West (U.S.)—History and criticism. 2. American
  literature—Minority authors—History and criticism. 3. Women and literature—West
  (U.S.)—History. 4. Multiculturalism in literature. 5. Ethnicity in literature.  6. Frontier 
  and pioneer life in literature. 7. West (U.S.)—In literatur