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Imagining America : stories from the promised land / edited by Wesley Brown & Amy Ling.
Van Pelt Library PS647.E85 I45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American--Minority authors.
- Short stories, American.
- Minorities.
- Emigration and immigration.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- Minorities--Fiction.
- Immigrants--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 404 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Persea Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- On its original publication in 1991, Imagining America was recognized as a groundbreaking work -- "the collection [that] defines multiculturalism" (Booklist). This revised edition preserves the unique historical arrangement of stories from 1900 to the present within parts that mirror the newcomer's experience -- Arriving, Belonging, Crossings, and Remembering -- and includes eleven new authors to bring the collection up to date: Sherman Alexie, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Chitra Divakaruni, Jewelle Gomez, Jessica Hagedorn, Thomas King, Bruce Morrow, Agnes Rossi, and David Wong Louie.
- They join Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Bausch, Marita Bonner, Nash Candelaria, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Mei Mei Evans, Oscar Hijuelos, Gish Jen, LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, Kim Yong lk, Monfoon Leong, Bernard Malamud, Paule Marshall, Nicholasa Mohr, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Mikhail Naimy, Tahira Naqvi, Gregory Orfalea, Grace Paley, Jeanne Schinto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Stephens, Sui Sin Far, Alice Walker, and Hisaye Yamamoto.
- Here is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and useful presentation of America's rich literary tradition and multicultural heritage.
- Contents:
- In the land of the free / Sui Sin Far
- The whipping / Marita Bonner
- The English lesson / Nicholasa Mohr
- The German refugee / Bernard Malamud
- They won't crack it open / Kim Yong Ik
- A wife's story / Bharati Mukherjee
- Silver pavements, golden roofs / Chitra Divakaruni
- The blossoming of Bongbong / Jessica Hagedorn
- Children of the sea / Edwidge Danticat
- His grace / Mikhail Naimy
- Japanese hamlet / Toshio Mori
- New year for Fong Wing / Monfoon Leong
- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto
- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
- The death of Horatio Alger / LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka
- In the American society / Gish Jen
- Near the end of the world / Bruce Morrow
- Don't explanin / Jewelle Gomez
- Hungry dog / Agnes Rossi
- The loudest voice / Grace Paley
- The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko
- American horse / Louise Erdrich
- El Patrón / Nash Candelaria
- Thank God for the Jews / Tahira Naqvi
- Gussuk / Mei Mei Evans
- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros
- Birthday / David Wong Louie
- Borders / Thomas King
- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Díaz
- Old West / Richard Bausch
- Elethia / Alice Walker
- Visitors, 1965 / Oscar Hijuelos
- The disappearance / Jeanne Schinto
- The chandelier / Gregory Orfalea
- Five jack cool / Michael Stephens
- To Da-Duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall
- Election day, 1984 / Michelle Cliff
- A drug called tradition / Sherman Alexie.
- Notes:
- "A Karen & Michael Braziller book."
- ISBN:
- 0892552778
- OCLC:
- 51734096
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