Research Catalog

Title

New to North America : writing by U.S. immigrants, their children and grandchildren / Abby Bogomolny, editor ; chapter introductions by John Isbister.

Publication

New York : Burning Bush Publications, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bogomolny, Abby, 1953-
• Isbister, John.

Description

xv, 373 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Immigrants' writings, American
• American literature > Minority authors
• Ethnic groups > Literary collections
• Children of immigrants > Literary collections
• Children of immigrants > United States
• Immigrants > Literary collections
• Immigrants > United States

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Literature

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The old people and the old story / Chih Hao Huang -- Nameless place / Alberto Angel -- Will the real island please stand up ; Attack at dawn / Opal Palmer Adisa -- The occupied zone / Geneviève Duboscq -- I remember Haifa being lovely but / Lyn Lifshin -- He read he was / Ebrahim Wahab -- Knowing the teacher / Minh Ta -- In the land of the free / Sui Sin Far -- When it happens it seems altogether impossible / Hayan Charara -- On the mountain, the cathedral and the fast food culture / Florin Ion Firimita -- The rearview mirror / Marja Hagborg -- A room with a view / Qun Wang -- To be Viet Kieu is to be like Santa Claus / Andrew Lam -- Butterscotch marble ice cream / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard -- Goddess of learning / Anjanli Banerjee -- Lavendar soap / Irene Zabytko -- The lawyer's story / Victor Triay -- The great taco war / José Antonio Burciaga -- Those on bathroom walls ; Immigration blues / William Archila -- The rootless people / Quê ̃-Doãn-Dô ̃ -- Selections from Drops of this story / Suheir Hammad -- What has become of us here? / Gregory Gumbs -- The immigrant / J Yarrow -- Aide-memoire / Elisaviette Artamonoff Ritchie -- I worry / Sridevi Ramanathan -- My American reality / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley -- My story / Marcela Bruno -- Yellow leaves / María de Los Ríos -- The passport office / Melissa Aranzamendez.
• [cont.] The immigrant story / Grace Paley -- Funny-sounding names / Dan Georgakas -- Queen of the West Indies / Mary McLaughlin Slechta -- Chuck Pehlivanian ; From "Letters to my father" / David Kherdian -- Our life with the Windsors / Valerie Miner -- A secret language / Chen Lin -- Barely audible / Nahid Rachlin -- Everybody's business / Fran DeVenuto -- Dad / Abby Bogomolny -- Finally--my two dads / Marie G. Lee -- Una carta a Puerto Rico = A letter to Puerto Rico / Lola Rodríguez -- Dakota thunderstorm / Lawrence Snydal -- Mama ; Choosing camps / Joey Garcia -- Drink / Miriam Sachs Martín -- Bungalow people / Charles Fishman -- Spanglish / Rebecca Gutierrez -- Gifts for the dead / Jennifer Lagier -- Both sides of the border / Cathy Ruiz -- Ellis Island / Vincent Corvino -- He who serves two masters disappoints one--or both / José Antonio Burciaga -- The shouting within us ; Leaving California for Ireland / Carolyn Flynn -- ABCs / Deanna Tseying Fei -- Yard sale / Faye Moskowitz -- Gorda, Mama and Victor / Angie Cruz -- The handkerchief / Elise Marie Ficarra -- Remembering my Spanish / Elena Perez -- Poppa's girls / Lesléa Newman -- A pipe / Kirby Congdon -- The cockfight / Rosemary Ybarra-Garcia -- Exotic or "What beach do you hang out on?" / Tara L. Masih -- From city to suburb America / Abby Bogomolny -- A tapestry of hope / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- They shut my Grandmother's room door / Andrew Lam -- Growing old in an alien landscape / Anne Cooper -- All educated with no place to go / Tony Diaz -- Histories / David Kherdian -- It begins right here / Morton Marcus -- No memories at all / Eva Metzger Brown -- Enforcement : a tool to control the flow of labor at the U.S.-Mexico Border / María Jiménez -- Ethics and interests in the immigration debate / John Isbister -- Migrant hybridity / Rubén Ríos Ávila -- We are the miracle / Abby Bogomolny -- Your chosen land / Stanley Nelson -- First writing since / Suheir Hammand -- We have it / Opal Palmer Adisa.

ISBN

• 0965066568 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780965066563 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006021865

OCLC

• 70232358
• SCSB-11632022

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library