New Immigrant Literatures in the United States A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage

Subjects:

• Literature » American Literature
• Multicultural Studies » Multicultural Studies (General)

Reviews:

• Knippling offers a critical overview of post-WWII literature written by new immigrants to the US....A blend of reference and critical interpretation, the sourcebook's chapters focus on writing in English. Twenty-two contributors of diverse background and expertise describe skillfully the origin, nature, and literary traditions of the new immigrants covered in the text....[T]he guide is one of the most comprehensive recent treatments of immigrant literature in the US.
  —Choice
• ...a unique, comprehensive, and versatile introduction to the contributions of immigrants to the post-World War II literature of the United States... The work performs two complementary functions. First, each of the 22 chapters... 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.
  —Library Journal
• ...the writing is clear and jargon-free, each chapter providing an excellent starting point for a further exploration of the literature...[it] meets an important need in the current multicultural climate and is recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries.
  —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
• Knippling provides useful critical background for those teaching or studying the literature of U.S. immigrant groups....Recommended for all libraries.
  —MultiCultural Review
• [S]hould be of interest to all who teach, research, and are concerned about promoting a "multicultural literary heritage" that is not necessarily and simply "our[s]".
  —Journal of American Ethnic History

Table of Contents:

• Preface by Alpana Sharma Knippling
• Introduction by Alpana Sharma Knippling
• Asian-American Literatures
• Arab-American Literature by Evelyn Shakir
• Armenian-American Literature by Khachig Tololyan
• Chinese-American Literature by Shan Qiang He
• Filipino American Literature by Nerissa Balce-Cortes and Jean Vengua Gier
• Indian-American Literature by Gurleen Grewal
• Iranian-American Literature by Nasrin Rahimieh
• Japanese-American Literature by Benzi Zhang
• Korean-American Literature by Jae-Nam Han
• Pakistani-American Literature by Sunil Sharma
• Caribbean-American Literatures
• Anglophone Caribbean-American Literature by Aparajita Sagar
• Cuban-American Literature by Ricardo L. Ortíz
• Dominican-American Literature by Carrie Tirado Bramen
• Puerto Rican-American Literature by Carrie Tirado Bramen
• European-American Literatures
• Finnish-American Literature by Anita Aukee Johnson
• Greek-American Literature by Yiorgos D. Kalogeras
• Irish-American Literature by Daniel J. Casey and Robert E. Rhodes
• Italian/American Literature by Fred L. Gardaphe
• Jewish-American Literature by Mark Krupnick
• Sephardic Jewish-American Literature by Diana Matza
• Polish-American Literature by Dawn B. Sova
• Slovak-American and Czech-American Literature by Dawn B. Sova
• Mexican-American Literatures
• Mexican-American Literature by Ada Savin
• Selected Bibliography
• Index