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Title:

Imagining America : stories from the promised land / edited by Wesley Brown & Amy Ling.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publisher:

Persea Books,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

404 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, American--Minority authors.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
American fiction--20th century
Minorities.--Fiction.
Immigrants.--Fiction.
United States--Emigration and immigration.--Fiction.
United States--Social life and customs.--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Brown, Wesley, 1945-
Ling, Amy.

Notes:

"A Karen & Michael Braziller book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-365).

Contents:

drug called tradition / Sherman Alexie. A whipping / Marita Bonner -- The English lesson / Nicholasa Mohr -- The German refugee / Bernard Malamud -- They won't crack it open / Kim Yong Ik -- A wife's story / Bharati Mukherjee -- Silver pavements, golden roofs / Chitra Divakaruni -- The blossoming of Bongbong / Jessica Hagedorn -- Children of the sea / Edwidge Danticat -- His grace / Mikhail Naimy -- Japanese hamlet / Toshio Mori -- New year for Fong Wing / Monfoon Leong -- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The death of Horatio Alger / LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka -- In the American society / Gish Jen -- Near the end of the world / Bruce Morrow -- Don't explanin / Jewelle Gomez -- Hungry dog / Agnes Rossi -- The loudest voice / Grace Paley -- The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- American horse / Louise Erdrich -- El Patrón / Nash Candelaria -- Thank God for the Jews / Tahira Naqvi -- Gussuk / Mei Mei Evans -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- Birthday / David Wong Louie -- Borders / Thomas King -- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Díaz -- Old West / Richard Bausch -- Elethia / Alice Walker -- Visitors, 1965 / Oscar Hijuelos -- The disappearance / Jeanne Schinto -- The chandelier / Gregory Orfalea -- Five jack cool / Michael Stephens -- To Da-Duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall -- Election day, 1984 / Michelle Cliff -- A drug called tradition / Sherman Alexie.

ISBN:

9780892552771
0892552778

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51734096

LCCN:

2002116921

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

VTPD454 -- Cresco Public Library (Cresco)

POSX851 -- Ballard Community High School (Huxley)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)