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Title

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

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Gillan, Jennifer.
• Gillan, Maria M.

Description

xvii, 374 p.; 21 cm.

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.

Subject

• Acculturation > Fiction
• Acculturation > United States > Fiction
• American fiction > 20th century
• American fiction > Minority authors
• Ethnic groups > United States > Fiction
• Ethnic relations > Fiction
• Immigrants > Fiction
• Immigrants > United States > Fiction
• Minorities > Fiction
• Minorities > United States > Fiction
• Minority youth > Fiction
• Minority youth > United States > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Short stories
• Short stories.

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 cake / 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. Gardaphé -- Thanksgiving in a monsoonless land / Roshni Rustomji -- To change in a good way / Simon J. Ortiz -- The moths / Helena María Viramontes -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe.

ISBN

0140280634

LCCN

^^^99025762^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library