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Transcultural Women of Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. American Literature: First-Generation Migrants from Islands and Peninsulas. Pauline T. Newton, ed.
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2005. Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, USA, pp. 233. £56.99
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Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings. Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora, eds. 2007. State University of New York Press, Albany, pp. 216. £41.24
Pauline T. Newton's Transcultural Women of Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. American Literature: First-Generation Migrants from Islands and Peninsulas presents a critical study of works by "minority" American writers, including Judith Ortiz Cofer, Julia Alvarez, Jamaica Kincaid, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and Lan Cao. The volume also contains a set of interviews, conducted by Newton, with Ortiz Cofer, Lim, Cao, Frances Esquivel Tywoniak, Le Ly Hayslip, and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Through a series of close textual readings, then, followed by insightful discussions, this work explores and unpacks questions of "transculturality," and more particularly the quality of what is called "islandness," in the work of female first- and second-generation migrant writers from "island or