All about Skin : Short Fiction by Women of Color / edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spencer, Rochelle (Writer), editor of compilation.

Ortiz, Jina, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Fiction.

Minority women.

Literature--Minority authors.

Literature.

Literature--Women authors.

Short stories.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry anthologies.The prose in this multicultural anthology addresses such themes as racial prejudice, media portrayal of beauty, and family relationships and spans genres from the comic and the surreal to startling realism. It demonstrates the power and range of some of the most exciting women writing short fiction today. The stories are by American writers Aracelis González Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capó Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sáma, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese writer Xu Xi.Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School LibrariansBest Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

Contents:

Part 1. Coming-of-age. Aida / Patricia Engel

Fairness / Chinelo Okparanta

Pita delicious / ZZ Packer

Candidate / Amina Gautier

How to leave the midwest / Renee Simms

The perfect subject / Ramola D.

A different story / Ivelisse Rodriguez

Part 2. Reinvention. American child / Manjula Menon

Arcadia / Hope Wabuke

Sirens / Joshunda Sanders

Just the way she does the things / Jennine Capo Crucet

The great pretenders / Ashley Young

A penny, a pound / Princess Joy L. Perry

Part 3. Borderlands. The accidents of a Veronica / Toni Margarita Plummer

The rapture / Emily Raboteau

The lost ones / Aracelis Gonzalez Asendorf

Noelia and Amparo / Glendaliz Camacho

A strange people / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Lillian is an ordinary child / Metta Sama

Entropy 20:12 / Learkana Chong

Beautiful things / Jacqueline Bishop

Lady Chatterley's mansion / Unoma Azuah

All about skin / Xu Xi.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299301934

0299301931

OCLC:

890444833