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Growing up ethnic in America : contemporary fiction about learning to be American / edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan.

Gillan, Maria M. (Added Author). Gillan, Jennifer. (Added Author).
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  • 1 copy at The Center Library.

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The Center Library 813.54 Gro 1999 146003 Stacks Available -

Record details

  • ISBN: 0140280634
  • ISBN: 9780140280630
  • Physical Description: xvii, 374 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note: Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Looking for work / Gary Soto -- The best deal in America / Bebe Moore Cambell -- The day the Cisco Kid shot John Wayne / Nash Candelaria -- The new negro / Darryl Pinckney -- A half-breed's dream vacation / Tiffany Midge -- Americanism / Kathryn Nocerino -- Railroad standard time / Frank Chin -- American history / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The red convertible / Louise Erdrich -- From The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Killing the bees / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Drowning / Mary Bucci Bush -- Magic / Liz Rosenberg -- The cossacks of Connecticut / Daniel Asa Rose -- Mericans / Sandra Cisneros -- What means switch / Gish Jen -- Myrna and me / Laura Boss -- Dinner with father / Bruce A. Jacobs -- Brandy cafe / Beena Kamlani -- Drowning kittens / Enid Dame -- Portrait of the lone survivor / Diane Glancy -- Holy Toledo / Joseph Geha -- Carlton Fredericks and my mother / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Honey boy / Afaa Michael Weaver -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- From Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- From Recollections of my life as a woman / Diane de Prima -- Red velvet dress / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Grandpa's "Chicaudies" / Fred L. Gardaphe -- Thanksgiving in a monsoonless land / Roshni Rustomji -- To change in a good way / Simon J. Ortiz -- The monks / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe.
Summary, etc.: An anthology on ethnics divided into several sections. One comprises stories on ethnics absorbed into the mainstream of American society, a second is on people who straddle the divide, while a third is on people attempting to reconnect with the Old Country.
Subject: American fiction > Minority authors.
American fiction > 20th century.
Ethnic relations > Fiction.
Minority youth > Fiction.
Acculturation > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Minorities > Fiction.
Acculturation.
American fiction.
American fiction > Minority authors.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants.
Minorities.
Minority youth.
Genre: Fiction.
Summary: An anthology on ethnics divided into several sections. One comprises stories on ethnics absorbed into the mainstream of American society, a second is on people who straddle the divide, while a third is on people attempting to reconnect with the Old Country.

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