American identities : contemporary multicultural voices / edited by Robert Pack, Jay Parini.
| Other author | Pack, Robert, 1929-2023 |
| Other author | Parini, Jay. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Hanover : Published by University Press of New England [for] Middlebury College Press, ©1994. |
| Description | xiii, 373 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Homecoming -- Queens, 1963 / Julia Alvarez -- Chicago highbrow / James Atlas -- Bank examiners / Pinckney Benedict -- A late start in Mississippi / Larry Brown -- Advanced biology / Judity Ortiz Cofer -- Hudson Hornet -- Maternity -- Translations -- Times Square Hotel - basement floor -- First Baptist Church: Princeton New Jersey / William C. Cook -- The boy with beer / Melvin Dixon -- Home / Michael Dorris -- Conversions / Louise Erdrich -- Kubota / Garrett Hongo -- Reconstruction / Robert Houston -- How I got to be Jewish / Erica Jong -- Monticello -- Rendezvous -- |
| Contents | Anthony, Isabella... -- Henry the navigator -- Other worlds / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Prague: a poem reappearing / Michael Kraus -- Empty bamboo / Leslie Li -- Voice lessons / Nancy Mairs -- The gospel according to Walter -- Fog warning -- The conning towers of my father's war -- Class / Paul Mariani -- South Bronx, 1939 -- Clayfield prunes his apple trees / Robert Pack -- Anthracite country -- Playing in the mines -- 1913 -- The miner's wake -- Coal train / Jay Parini -- Grudnow -- It is raining on the house of Anne Frank -- A real story -- Rachel (a ewe) -- |
| Contents | A short history of Judaic thought in the twentieth century / Linda Pastan -- A secret place, with view / Ted Perry -- Gathering / Samuel F. Pickering, Jr. -- Losing the aristocratic taint / Ron Powers -- A New England chorus / John Preston -- Ear training / William H. Pritchard -- History (with dreams) / Lev Raphael -- Distant cousins / Ishmael Reed -- Family values / Richard Rodriguez -- Chrysanthemums -- Ningyo / Lee Ann Roripaugh -- Rat Bohemia / Sarah Schulman -- Being there / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- One last time / Gary Soto -- Idlewild / Robert B. Stepto -- |
| Contents | Between silence and sanction / Michelle Taigue -- The Italian-American voice: where is it? / Gay Talese -- West Point / Gore Vidal -- White pelicans / Terry Tempest Williams -- Today, a woman went mad in the supermarket / Hilma Woltzer -- Autobiography of a family photo / Jacqueline Woodson -- Virgin river bride -- June elegy -- Skull -- Swallows of Xi'an / Clara Yu. |
| General note | "A Bread Loaf anthology"--P. [ii]. |
| LCCN | 94008809 |
| ISBN | 0874516412 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS508.M54 A43 1994 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |