Research Catalog

Title

American identities : contemporary multicultural voices / edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini.

Publication

Hanover, NH : Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Pack, Robert, 1929-
• Parini, Jay.

Description

xiii, 373 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• Contemporary commentators have observed that postmodern America is less a melting pot than a buffet table. In American Identities people of diverse ethnic, religious, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds "refuse to merge but insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities," editors Robert Pack and Jay Parini explain.
• This sixth volume in the popular Bread Loaf Anthology series gathers more than three dozen voices who testify that there is no single American Experience, but instead a multiplicity of experiences. These poems, stories, and essays describe in occasionally stark, sometimes humorous, and often moving terms what it means to be black and American, or gay and American, or Latino and American, or Jewish and American within this society.

Subject

• American literature > Minority authors
• Ethnic groups > United States > Literary collections
• Cultural pluralism > Literary collections
• Minorities > United States > Literary collections
• American literature > 20th century

Note

• "Bread Loaf anthology."

Contents

• Introduction / Jay Parini and Robert Pack -- Julia Alvarez -- Homecoming -- Queens, 1963 -- James Atlas -- Chicago Highbrow -- Pinckney Benedict -- Bank Examiners -- Larry Brown -- A Late Start in Mississippi -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Advanced Biology -- William C. Cook -- Hudson Hornet -- Maternity -- Translations -- Times Square Hotel - Basement Floor -- First Baptist Church: Princeton New Jersey -- Melvin Dixon -- The Boy with Beer -- Michael Dorris -- Home -- Louise Erdrich -- Conversions -- Garrett Hongo -- Kubota -- Robert Houston -- Reconstruction -- Erica Jong -- How I Got to Be Jewish -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Monticello -- Rendezvous -- Anthony, Isabella ... -- Henry the Navigator -- Other Worlds -- Michael Kraus -- Prague: A Poem Reappearing -- Leslie Li -- Empty Bamboo -- Nancy Mairs -- Voice Lessons -- Paul Mariani -- The Gospel According to Walter -- Fog Warning -- The Conning Towers of My Father's War -- Class -- Robert Pack -- South Bronx, 1939.
• Clayfield Prunes His Apple Trees -- Jay Parini -- Anthracite Country -- Playing in the Mines -- 1913 -- The Miner's Wake -- Coal Train -- Linda Pastan -- Grudnow -- It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank -- A Real Story -- Rachel (a ewe) -- A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century -- Ted Perry -- A Secret Place, with View -- Samuel F. Pickering, Jr. -- Gathering -- Ron Powers -- Losing the Aristocratic Taint -- John Preston -- A New England Chorus -- William H. Pritchard -- Ear Training -- Lev Raphael -- History (with Dreams) -- Ishmael Reed -- Distant Cousins -- Richard Rodriguez -- Family Values -- Lee Ann Roripaugh -- Chrysanthemums -- Ningyo -- Sarah Schulman -- Rat Bohemia -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Being There -- Gary Soto -- One Last Time -- Robert B. Stepto -- Idlewild -- Michelle Taigue -- Between Silence and Sanction -- Gay Talese -- The Italian-American Voice: Where Is It? -- Gore Vidal -- West Point -- Terry Tempest Williams -- White Pelicans -- Hilma Wolitzer.
• Today, a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket -- Jacqueline Woodson -- Autobiography of a Family Photo -- Clara Yu -- Virgin River Bride -- June Elegy -- Skull -- Swallows of Xi'an.

ISBN

0874516412

LCCN

94008809

OCLC

• 30036603
• ocm30036603

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries