American Ethnic Writers

by Peck, David R.; Irons-Georges, Tracy

• ISBN13: 9780893561574
• ISBN10: 0893561576
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Salem Pr Inc

Summary

Presents profiles of American writers of Asian, African, Jewish, Native American, and other ethnic backgrounds, discussing their contributions to literature and how their works deal with the themes of race and ethnicity.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note	p. ix
Contributor List	p. xi
Cruelty	p. 2
Greed	p. 3
House of a Thousand Doors	p. 6
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven	p. 10
Reservation Blues	p. 11
The Sacred Hoop	p. 14
Spider Woman's Granddaughters	p. 15
The House of the Spirits	p. 19
The Infinite Plan	p. 20
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents	p. 24
Bless Me, Ultima	p. 27
Heart of Aztlan	p. 28
Tortuga	p. 29
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes	p. 32
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 32
Poetry	p. 34
The Promised Land	p. 37
Arturo, the Most Brilliant Star	p. 40
The Pentagonia	p. 41
Black Mesa Poems	p. 44
Martin; and, Meditations on the South Valley	p. 45
Working in the Dark	p. 46
Giovanni's Room	p. 49
Notes of a Native Son	p. 50
Gorilla, My Love	p. 54
The Salt Eaters	p. 55
Blues People	p. 58
Daggers and Javelins	p. 59
Dutchman	p. 60
Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones	p. 61
The Adventures of Augie March	p. 64
Arna Wendell Bontemps	p. 66
Black Thunder	p. 67
Great Slave Narratives	p. 68
Woman with Horns and Other Stories	p. 72
Poetry	p. 75
A Street in Bronzeville	p. 76
Manchild in the Promised Land	p. 79
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave	p. 83
America Is in the Heart	p. 86
The Rise of David Levinsky	p. 89
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine	p. 92
Face of an Angel	p. 95
The Last of the Menu Girls	p. 96
The Chickencoop Chinaman	p. 99
Donald Duk	p. 100
The Year of the Dragon	p. 101
Eat a Bowl of Tea	p. 104
The House on Mango Street	p. 107
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories	p. 108
Soul on Ice	p. 111
Poetry	p. 114
On These I Stand	p. 117
Angela Davis	p. 121
The Motion of Light in Water	p. 124
Triton	p. 125
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water	p. 128
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	p. 132
Grace Notes	p. 136
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois	p. 140
The Souls of Black Folk	p. 141
Poetry	p. 144
Intercourse	p. 147
The Franchiser	p. 150
The MacGuffin	p. 151
Invisible Man	p. 155
The Beet Queen	p. 159
Love Medicine	p. 160
Where I Ought to Be	p. 161
The Chinaberry Tree	p. 164
Torch Song Trilogy	p. 167
The Conjure-Man Dies	p. 170
A Soldier's Play	p. 173
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	p. 177
Howl	p. 180
Kaddish	p. 181
Black Feeling, Black Talk	p. 184
Gemini	p. 185
Dangerous Music	p. 188
A Raisin in the Sun	p. 191
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black	p. 192
In Mad Love and War	p. 196
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky	p. 197
Poetry	p. 200
Fossil and Psyche	p. 203
The Womb of Space	p. 204
Poetry	p. 207
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places	p. 210
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	p. 213
Mr. Ives' Christmas	p. 214
Autobiographies	p. 217
Klail City	p. 220
Volcano	p. 223
Autobiographies	p. 227
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes	p. 228
The Ways of White Folks	p. 229
Dust Tracks on a Road	p. 233
Their Eyes Were Watching God	p. 234
Bondage	p. 237
The Dance and the Railroad	p. 238
Family Devotions	p. 239
M. Butterfly	p. 240
Middle Passage	p. 243
Along This Way	p. 246
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man	p. 247
Saint Peter Relates an Incident	p. 248
Eva's Man	p. 251
The Floating World	p. 254
In the Heart of the Valley of Love	p. 255
Funnyhouse of a Negro	p. 258
A Rat's Mass	p. 259
Author Index	p. 265
Title Index	p. 267
Ethnic Identity List	p. 271
Annie John	p. 274
At the Bottom of the River	p. 275
A Testament of Hope	p. 279
China Men	p. 282
The Woman Warrior	p. 283
Obasan	p. 287
The Painted Bird	p. 290
Steps	p. 291
"Father and Son"	p. 294
"Three Floors"	p. 295
Angels in America	p. 298
Quicksand	p. 301
Fresh Girls, and Other Stories	p. 305
Runaway	p. 306
The Coffin Tree	p. 309
China Boy	p. 312
The Winged Seed	p. 315
The Cancer Journals	p. 317
Coal	p. 319
Zami	p. 319
Claude McKay	p. 322
Banana Bottom	p. 323
Banjo	p. 324
Home to Harlem	p. 325
Poetry	p. 326
Waiting to Exhale	p. 330
The Surrounded	p. 333
Wind from an Enemy Sky	p. 334
The Assistant	p. 338
The Fixer	p. 339
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	p. 342
Continents of Exile	p. 345
Death of a Salesman	p. 348
Red Azalea	p. 351
El Bronx Remembered	p. 354
The Ancient Child	p. 357
House Made of Dawn	p. 358
Beloved	p. 361
Song of Solomon	p. 362
"The Management of Grief"	p. 366
The Middleman and Other Stories	p. 367
Bailey's Cafe	p. 370
The Women of Brewster Place	p. 371
Bone	p. 374
No-No Boy	p. 377
Silent Dancing	p. 380
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories	p. 383
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute	p. 387
Later the Same Day	p. 388
The Street	p. 391
"The Witness"	p. 392
My Name Is Asher Lev	p. 395
City of Night	p. 399
This Day's Death	p. 400
God Made Alaska for the Indians	p. 403
New and Collected Poems	p. 404
Poetry	p. 407
Son of a Smaller Hero	p. 410
The earth did not part	p. 413
Hunger of Memory	p. 416
State of War	p. 419
Twice Blessed	p. 420
Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories	p. 423
Portnoy's Complaint	p. 424
"Ajanta"	p. 427
"Eyes of Night-Time"	p. 428
I've Been a Woman	p. 432
Mile Zero	p. 435
Black No More	p. 438
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities	p. 441
Betsey Brown	p. 444
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf	p. 445
Storyteller	p. 448
"A Crown of Feathers"	p. 451
"Gimpel the Fool"	p. 452
Picture Bride	p. 455
A Summer Life	p. 458
The Content of Our Character	p. 462
The Hundred Secret Senses	p. 465
The Joy Luck Club	p. 466
The Kitchen God's Wife	p. 467
Pocho	p. 471
The Moths and Other Stories	p. 474
Under the Feet of Jesus	p. 475
The Heirs of Columbus	p. 478
Interior Landscapes	p. 479
Wordarrows	p. 480
The Color Purple	p. 483
Possessing the Secret of Joy	p. 484
Up from Slavery	p. 488
The Heidi Chronicles	p. 491
The Sisters Rosensweig	p. 492
Fools Crow	p. 495
Crusade for Justice	p. 498
Brothers and Keepers	p. 501
The Homewood Trilogy	p. 502
All Rivers Run to the Sea	p. 505
A Beggar in Jerusalem	p. 506
Night	p. 507
Fences	p. 510
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	p. 511
Two Trains Running	p. 512
Fifth Chinese Daughter	p. 515
Poetry	p. 518
American Hunger	p. 521
Black Boy	p. 522
Camp Notes and Other Poems	p. 525
"Seventeen Syllables"	p. 528
Author Index	p. 533
Title Index	p. 535
Ethnic Identity List	p. 539
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