Stories in the Stepmother Tongue

by Novakovich, Josip

• ISBN13: 9781893996045
• ISBN10: 1893996042
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: White Pine Pr

Summary

These stories were written in English by writers who emigrated to the United States. Why do these writers choose to express themselves in a language other than their native tongue? When writing is a major part of life, coming to a new country and learning to write in its language is, for many writers, necessary to feeling at home in the world in which they now live. But, for whatever reason, these writers, have added their voices to the great song of ourselves making this book our literary heritage to enrich us all.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(12)
Josip Novakovich
Robert Shapard
Not for Sale	21	(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Grandma's Tales	28	(7)
Andrew Lam
Happiness	35	(11)
Bharati Mukherjee
Born Again	46	(19)
Andrei Codrescu
The Book of the Dead	65	(13)
Edwidge Danticat
Saboteur	78	(13)
Ha Jim
Homage	91	(10)
Stella Pope Duarte
Every Hunter Wants to Know	101	(20)
Mikhail Iossel
Fatemeh	121	(11)
Nahid Rachlin
Chocolate War	132	(15)
Thomas Palakeel
The Documentarian	147	(14)
Jaime Manrique
The Winter Hibiscus	161	(18)
Minfong Ho
This World	179	(22)
Samrat Upadhyay
Sisters	201	(17)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Joe	218	(16)
Julia Alvarez
from Mother Tongues and Other Untravellings	234	(4)
Kyoko Uchida
Distance	238	(5)
Simon Ortiz
Biographical Notes	243