This anthology of fourteen autobiographical narratives about
growing up in America's diverse society takes us all across the
United States: to the Watts barrio and idyllic Hawaii; to rural
Alabama and the urban centers of New York and Boston; to
neighborhoods in San Antonio, Cleveland, and Paterson, New Jersey;
to North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and into the
grape and cotton fields of the San Joaquin valley .... Some are
true stories by and about recent immigrants, others focus on young
native-born Americans from a particular cultural background. Gary
Soto tells about being a teenager who worked as a farm laborer;
Helen Epstein explores the unusual tensions surrounding an ordinary
dinnertime with her parents, both concentration camp survivors;
Thylias Moss and Judith Ortiz Cofer discover the power of the
individual voice to transcend racial and cultural barriers; Lensey
Namioka recounts her "weird" childhood as a girl who excels in math
(expected in China, but unusual in the U.S.); Luis J. Rodriguez and
Graham Salisbury examine images of manhood, one in the Watts barrio
and the other in Hawaii. Also included are powerful narratives by
Lee A. Daniels, Tracy Marx, Ved Mehta, Naomi Shihab Nye, Susan
Power, Willie Ruff, and Hisaye Yamamoto. Whether lit by humor or
darkly intense, these true accounts tell us that who we are has
much to do with where we've been.
General
| Imprint: |
Persea Books Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 1994 |
| First published: |
November 1994 |
| Authors: |
A. Mazer
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 145 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
180 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-89255-205-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: texts >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-89255-205-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780892552054 |
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