Imagining America : Stories from the Promised Land
ISBN: 9780892552771 | 0892552778
Edition: 2ndFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: PERSEA
Pub. Date: 3/17/2003
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Thirty-seven short stories from 1900 to the present, written by some of our best authors'”African, Asian, European, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Native American'”follow the waves of immigration into and migration within the United States. These stories are unique in time and circumstance, yet they address a common dilemma: how to reconcile America's mythologized "promise" with its more complex reality. New to the collection are Sherman Alexie, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Chitra Divakaruni, Jewelle Gomez, Thomas King, Bruce Morr... MORE
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| Biographical Notes | 395 |
Wesley Brown, novelist and playwright, teaches at Rutgers University Amy Ling (d. 1999), critic and scholar, was the founding director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
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