NEW WORLDS OF LIT 2E PA

by Beaty, Jerome; Hunter, J. Paul

• ISBN13: 9780393963540
• ISBN10: 0393963543
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-02-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Contemporary, Cross-Cultural, American Writing . With 28 stories, 30 essays and autobiographical narratives, 90 poems , and 6 plays, New Worlds of Literature, Second Edition, Brings together vibrant new Writing that reflects the diverse ethnic, cultural, and social worlds of North America and the Caribbean today. Among the many writers new to the Second Edition are Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Tato Laviera, David Leavitt, Derek Walcott, and John Edgar Wideman.A Strengthened Connection between Reading and Writing . Nine student papers, a new section on writing about literature, an abundance of writing topics and study questions, thematic chapter introductions, and Afterwords on the elements of literature together guide students toward careful reading and thoughtful writing.Instructor's Guide This handy guide, by Carolina Hospital, Miami-Dade Community College, and Carlos Medina, includes suggestions for activities and writing topics, discussions of each selection in the text, teaching strategies, and sample syllabi. Available to instructors upon request.Voices of New Worlds Video This video of three writers reading from their work-Agha Shahid Ali, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Alberto Alvaro Riacute;os-brings the selections in New Worlds of Literature, Second Edition, to life in your classroom. Available upon adoption.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
1 HOME	1	(114)
Fiction	3	(34)
Sandra Street	3	(7)
Michael Anthony
A Pair of Tickets	10	(16)
Amy Tan
Sanchez	26	(11)
Richard Dokey
Poetry	37	(15)
Escape the Ghettos of New York	37	(1)
Vanessa Howard
Hometown	38	(2)
Luis Cabalquinto
Going Home	40	(2)
Maurice Kenny
Freeway 280	42	(2)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Driving in Oklahoma	44	(1)
Carter Revard
In a Polish Home for the Aged (Chicago, 1983)	45	(2)
Edward Hirsch
Postcard from Kashmir	47	(2)
Agha Shahid Ali
Home	49	(1)
Audre Lorde
Returning	50	(1)
Elias Miguel Munoz
in the inner city	51	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Drama	52	(41)
And the Soul Shall Dance	52	(41)
Wakako Yamauchi
Essay and Autobiography	93	(22)
The ``Gentle Wholeness'' of Home	93	(2)
Elise Sprunt Sheffield
Migrants: Transients or Settlers?	95	(6)
Elena Padilla
Reflections on Exile	101	(14)
Edward Said
Afterword: Setting	107	(3)
Writing about the Reading	110	(2)
Student Writing	112	(1)
My Home	112	(3)
Bao Gia Tran
2 FAMILY	115	(68)
Fiction	117	(26)
Charlie-O, My Mother's Stories	117	(10)
Tony Ardizzone
Cynthia Kadohata	127	(9)
Little Brother	136	(7)
John Edgar Wideman
Poetry	143	(16)
My Father's Song	143	(2)
Simon J. Ortiz
Old Photographs	145	(2)
Rhoda Schwartz
Chinese Fireworks Banned in Hawaii	147	(2)
Eric Chock
The Gift	149	(1)
Li-Young Lee
Ancestor	150	(2)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Little Sister Born in This Land	152	(3)
Elias Miguel Munoz
Say Hello to John	155	(1)
Sherley Williams
Offspring	156	(2)
Naomi Long Madgett
Speaking	158	(1)
Simon J. Ortiz
Essay and Autobiography	159	(24)
Letter to Ma	159	(8)
Merle Woo
My Two Dads	167	(3)
Marie G. Lee
The Limitless Heart	170	(13)
Fenton Johnson
Afterword: Characterization	174	(3)
Writing about the Reading	177	(2)
Student Writing	179	(1)
``Letter to Ma'': The Chasms Between Mothers and Daughters	179	(4)
Maria Albertsen
3 HERITAGE	183	(74)
Fiction	185	(23)
Najari Levon's Old Country Advice to the Young Americans on How to Live with a Snake	185	(5)
William Saroyan
No Name Woman	190	(10)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Private Property	200	(8)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Poetry	208	(19)
Heritage	208	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Heritage	209	(2)
Linda Hogan
Borders	211	(2)
Pat Mora
Listening	213	(1)
David Mura
To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century (from Letter to the Front)	214	(2)
Muriel Rukeyser
Africa	216	(1)
Maya Angelou
in the first place of my life	217	(3)
Ray A. Young Bear
Snowmen	220	(1)
Agha Shahid Ali
[we who carry the endless seasons]	221	(2)
Virginia Cerenio
Grandmother, a Caribbean Indian, Described by My Father	223	(1)
Yvonne Sapia
Mi Abuelo	224	(2)
Alberto Alvaro Rios
Grampa	226	(1)
Dennis Scott
Drama	227	(7)
Trotsky's Bar Mitzvah	227	(7)
Max Apple
Essay and Autobiography	234	(23)
Digging for Roots	234	(4)
Margarita M. Engle
More Room	238	(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Obachan	242	(15)
Gail Y. Miyasaki
Afterword: Point of View	246	(3)
Writing about the Reading	249	(2)
Student Writing	251	(1)
Withholding Consent or The Art of Non-Conformity	251	(6)
Lisbeth Sivertsen
4 LANGUAGE	257	(104)
Fiction	260	(26)
``Learn! Learn!''	260	(10)
Hugo Martinez-Serros
I Am an American	270	(13)
James Alan McPherson
Tahotahontanekentseratkerontakwenhakie	283	(3)
Salli Benedict
Poetry	286	(17)
Still Kicking in America	286	(1)
G. S. Sharat Chandra
Limen	287	(1)
Gustavo Perez-Firmat
Refugee Ship	288	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Parsley	289	(3)
Rita Dove
Jacklight	292	(2)
Louise Erdrich
Persimmons	294	(3)
Li-Young Lee
Foreign Language	297	(2)
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Tlingit Concrete Poem	299	(1)
Nora Dauenhauer
Song for My Name	300	(2)
Linda Hogan
A Far Cry from Africa	302	(1)
Derek Walcott
Drama	303	(23)
The Indian Wants the Bronx	303	(23)
Israel Horovitz
Essay and Autobiography	326	(35)
Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood	326	(18)
Richard Rodriguez
``Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?''	344	(3)
Gloria Naylor
Next to Brzezinski, Chelminski's a Cinch	347	(14)
Rudolph Chelminski
Afterword: Words	350	(5)
Writing about the Reading	355	(2)
Student Writing	357	(1)
Identity, and Violence in Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx	357	(4)
Steven Krueger Language
5 ALIENS	361	(104)
Fiction	364	(37)
The Man from Mars	364	(17)
Margaret Atwood
Johnnieruth	381	(6)
Becky Birtha
There Are a Lot of Ways to Die	387	(14)
Neil Bissoondath
Poetry	401	(21)
Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question	401	(1)
Diane Burns
I Think the New Teacher's Queer	402	(2)
Perry Brass
Looking Out	404	(1)
Mitsuye Yamada
Roseville, Minn., U. S. A.	404	(2)
Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo
On the Subway	406	(2)
Sharon Olds
tito madera smith	408	(3)
Tato Laviera
[Long Time Ago]	411	(6)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Discovery of the New World	417	(2)
Carter Revard
We New World Blacks	419	(2)
Grace Nichols
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	421	(1)
Etheridge Knight
Essay and Autobiography	422	(43)
The Media's Image of Arabs	422	(4)
Jack G. Shaheen
The Japanese Are Different from You and Me	426	(12)
James Fallows
Teacher Wei	438	(10)
Mark Salzman
My Brother Bailey and Kay Francis	448	(17)
Maya Angelou
Afterword: Expectation	454	(5)
Writing about the Reading	459	(1)
Student Writing	460	(1)
Carter Revard's ``Discovery''	460	(5)
Jennifer Johns
6 FENCES	465	(140)
Fiction	467	(43)
``Recitatif''	467	(16)
Toni Morrison
A Place I've Never Been	483	(12)
David Leavitt
What Happened to Red Deer	495	(15)
Wayne D. Johnson
Poetry	510	(13)
Sonrisas	510	(1)
Pat Mora
Lost Sister	511	(2)
Cathy Song
up & out	513	(2)
Nila NorthSun
Sorting Metaphors	515	(2)
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Sappho's Reply	517	(1)
Rita Mae Brown
In the Dungeon of My Skin	518	(1)
Madeline Coopsammy
In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report To Relocation Centers	519	(2)
Dwight Okita
Red Anger	521	(2)
R. T. Smith
Drama	523	(53)
Fences	523	(53)
August Wilson
Essay and Autobiography	576	(29)
I Forgot the Words to the National Anthem	576	(2)
James Seilsopour
Next Life, I'll Be White	578	(27)
Laurence Thomas
If I Could Write This in Fire I Would Write This in Fire	581	(14)
Michelle Cliff
Afterword: Conflict and Structure	595	(4)
Writing about the Reading	599	(2)
Student Writing	601	(1)
Alone in the Midst of 100,000 People	601	(4)
Beth Hecht
7 CROSSING	605	(114)
Fiction	607	(21)
Bread	607	(1)
Sandra Cisneros
Say Yes	608	(4)
Tobias Wolff
Grace	612	(16)
Robbie Clipper Sethi
Poetry	628	(24)
Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe	628	(2)
Paula Gunn Allen
Julia	630	(2)
Wendy Rose
Sequence	632	(5)
Lynn Nelson
West Indian Primer	637	(1)
Elizabeth Alexander
Sashimi	638	(3)
Juliet Kono
Tu Do Street	641	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Song of the Breed	643	(1)
Gogisgi
Flipochinos	643	(1)
Cyn. Zarco
Six Years	644	(3)
Alice Bloch
How to Watch Your Brother Die	647	(3)
Michael Lassell
Ellis Island	650	(2)
Joseph Bruchac
Drama	652	(43)
Wedding Band	652	(43)
Alice Childress
Essay and Autobiography	695	(24)
Like Mexicans	695	(4)
Gary Soto
Hold the Mayonnaise	699	(3)
Julia Alvarez
Is It Okay to Date Someone of Another Race?	702	(4)
Lynn Minton
Not Black, Not White, but Biracial	706	(13)
Robert Anthony Watts
Afterword: Theme	710	(5)
Writing about the Reading	715	(1)
Student Writing	716	(1)
A Lavender Life	716	(3)
Juli Nishimuta
8 AMERICANS	719	(86)
Fiction	723	(27)
The Lesson	723	(7)
Toni Cade Bambara
In the American Society	730	(13)
Gish Jen
Hindus	743	(7)
Bharati Mukherjee
Poetry	750	(26)
Coming of Age on the Harlem	750	(6)
Joan Murray
Revolution Skyscraper	756	(2)
Juan Felipe Herrera
Christopher St. Liberation Day, June 28, 1970	758	(3)
Fran Winant
Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980	761	(3)
Linda Hogan
Immigrants	764	(1)
Pat Mora
Arab and Jew in Alaska	765	(5)
Gregory Orfalea
The Question of Loyalty	770	(1)
Mitsuye Yamada
[I'm sitting in my history class]	771	(1)
Richard Olivas
The Friday Ladies of the Pay Envelope	772	(2)
Mari Evans
So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans	774	(2)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Essay and Autobiography	776	(29)
From Korea to Heaven Country	776	(2)
Lee Ki Chuck
Miami, Florida	778	(8)
Jesse G. Monteagudo
If Not with Others, How? (1985)	786	(19)
Adrienne Rich
Afterword: Contexts	792	(4)
Writing about the Reading	796	(1)
Student Writing	797	(1)
The Context of ``Hindus'': Bharati Mukherjee's Volume of Short Stories, Darkness	797	(8)
Laura Johnson
9 BELIEFS	805	(156)
Fiction	807	(38)
Abalone, Abalone, Abalone	807	(3)
Toshio Mori
The Moths	810	(5)
Helena Maria Viramontes
Fleur	815	(11)
Louise Erdrich
Dominion	826	(19)
Barry Targan
Poetry	845	(19)
The Eagle-Feather Fan	845	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
My Father's Martial Art	846	(1)
Stephen Shu-Ning Liu
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra	847	(3)
Ishmael Reed
Ancestral Poem	850	(2)
Olive Senior
Heaven	852	(2)
Cathy Song
Leaving Seoul: 1953	854	(2)
Walter K. Lew
Canaan	856	(3)
Mary Stewart Hammond
Gentle Communion	859	(2)
Pat Mora
Sestina: Santa Prisca	861	(1)
Rafael Jesus Gonzalez
Revolutionary Petunias	862	(2)
Alice Walker
Drama	864	(33)
The Day of the Swallows	864	(33)
Estela Portillo
Essay and Autobiography	897	(64)
Beyond Sacred Mountains	897	(11)
Leonard Begay
Protestant	908	(9)
Garrison Keillor
I Have a Dream	917	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Afterword: Myth and Symbol	921	(3)
Writing about the Reading	924	(1)
Student Writing	925	(4)
Macaroni, Macaroni...and Chalcedony	925	(4)
Elizabeth Douglas
Writing about Literature	929	(32)
Introduction	929	(1)
Representing the Literary Text	930	(3)
Replying to The Text	933	(2)
Explaining The Text	935	(10)
Deciding What to Write About	945	(3)
From Topic to Rough Draft	948	(5)
From Rough Draft to Completed Paper	953	(4)
A Summary of The Process	957	(4)
Acknowledgments	961	(8)
Glossary	969	(6)
Index of Authors and Titles	975