Title:
Growing up ethnic in America : contemporary fiction about learning to be American / edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan.
ISBN:
9780140280630
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
Physical Description:
xvii, 374 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
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:
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.0 18.0 70603.
Audience:
910L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocm41090741
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
