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Imagining America : stories from the promised land / edited by Wesley Brown and Amy Ling. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Karen & Michael Braziller BookPublication details: New York : Persea Books, (c)2002.; ©2002Edition: revised editionDescription: 404 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0892552778
  • 9780892552771
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS647.E85.L755.I434 2002
  • PS647.B769.I434.2002
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
I. ARRIVING. 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 ; II. BELONGING. 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 ; III. CROSSINGS. 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 ; IV. REMEMBERING. 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.
Summary: Presents stories written by authors of diverse cultural backgrounds, including Alice Walker, Oscar Hijuelos, Sherman Alexie, Michelle Cliff, Mei Mei Evans, LeRoi Jones, and Sui Sin Far.
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"A Karen & Michael Braziller book."

"A multicultural anthology of American fiction"--Cover.

I. ARRIVING. 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 ; II. BELONGING. 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 ; III. CROSSINGS. 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 ; IV. REMEMBERING. 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.

Presents stories written by authors of diverse cultural backgrounds, including Alice Walker, Oscar Hijuelos, Sherman Alexie, Michelle Cliff, Mei Mei Evans, LeRoi Jones, and Sui Sin Far.

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