American Ethnic Writers

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

• ISBN13: 9780893561840
• ISBN10: 0893561843
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• 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

Jamaica Kincaid	273	(277)
Annie John	274	(1)
At the Bottom of the River	275	(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr.	277	(4)
A Testament of Hope	279	(2)
Maxine Hong Kingston	281	(5)
China Men	282	(1)
The Woman Warrior	283	(3)
Joy Kogawa	286	(3)
Obasan	287	(2)
Jerzy Kosinski	289	(4)
The Painted Bird	290	(1)
Steps	291	(2)
Stanley Kunitz	293	(4)
``Father and Son''	294	(1)
``Three Floors''	295	(2)
Tony Kushner	297	(3)
Angels in America	298	(2)
Nella Larsen	300	(4)
Quicksand	301	(3)
Evelyn Lau	304	(4)
Fresh Girls, and Other Stories	305	(1)
Runaway	306	(2)
Wendy Law-Yone	308	(3)
The Coffin Tree	309	(2)
Gus Lee	311	(3)
China Boy	312	(2)
Li-Young Lee	314	(3)
The Winged Seed	315	(2)
Audre Lorde	317	(5)
The Cancer Journals	317	(2)
Coal	319	(1)
Zami	319	(3)
Claude McKay	322	(7)
Banana Bottom	323	(1)
Banjo	324	(1)
Home to Harlem	325	(1)
Poetry	326	(3)
Terry McMillan	329	(3)
Waiting to Exhale	330	(2)
D'Arcy McNickle	332	(5)
The Surrounded	333	(1)
Wind from an Enemy Sky	334	(3)
Bernard Malamud	337	(4)
The Assistant	338	(1)
The Fixer	339	(2)
Malcolm X	341	(3)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	342	(2)
Ved Mehta	344	(3)
Continents of Exile	345	(2)
Arthur Miller	347	(3)
Death of a Salesman	348	(2)
Anchee Min	350	(3)
Red Azalea	351	(2)
Nicholasa Mohr	353	(3)
El Bronx Remembered	354	(2)
N. Scott Momaday	356	(4)
The Ancient Child	357	(1)
House Made of Dawn	358	(2)
Toni Morrison	360	(4)
Beloved	361	(1)
Song of Solomon	362	(2)
Bharati Mukherjee	364	(5)
``The Management of Grief''	366	(1)
The Middleman and Other Stories	367	(2)
Gloria Naylor	369	(4)
Bailey's Cafe	370	(1)
The Women of Brewster Place	371	(2)
Fae Myenne Ng	373	(3)
Bone	374	(2)
John Okada	376	(3)
No-No Boy	377	(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer	379	(3)
Silent Dancing	380	(2)
Cynthia Ozick	382	(3)
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories	383	(2)
Grace Paley	385	(5)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute	387	(1)
Later the Same Day	388	(2)
Ann Petry	390	(4)
The Street	391	(1)
``The Witness''	392	(2)
Chaim Potok	394	(4)
My Name Is Asher Lev	395	(3)
John Rechy	398	(4)
City of Night	399	(1)
This Day's Death	400	(2)
Ishmael Reed	402	(4)
God Made Alaska for the Indians	403	(1)
New and Collected Poems	404	(2)
Adrienne Rich	406	(3)
Poetry	407	(2)
Mordecai Richler	409	(3)
Son of a Smaller Hero	410	(2)
Tomas Rivera	412	(3)
and the earth did not part	413	(2)
Richard Rodriguez	415	(3)
Hunger of Memory	416	(2)
Ninotchka Rosca	418	(4)
State of War	419	(1)
Twice Blessed	420	(2)
Philip Roth	422	(4)
Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories	423	(1)
Portnoy's Complaint	424	(2)
Muriel Rukeyser	426	(5)
``Ajanta''	427	(1)
``Eyes of Night-Time''	428	(3)
Sonia Sanchez	431	(3)
I've Been a Woman	432	(2)
Thomas Sanchez	434	(3)
Mile Zero	435	(2)
George S. Schuyler	437	(3)
Black No More	438	(2)
Delmore Schwartz	440	(3)
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities	441	(2)
Ntozake Shange	443	(4)
Betsey Brown	444	(1)
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf	445	(2)
Leslie Marmon Silko	447	(3)
Storyteller	448	(2)
Isaac Bashevis Singer	450	(4)
``A Crown of Feathers''	451	(1)
``Gimpel the Fool''	452	(2)
Cathy Song	454	(3)
Picture Bride	455	(2)
Gary Soto	457	(3)
A Summer Life	458	(2)
Shelby Steele	460	(4)
The Content of Our Character	462	(2)
Amy Tan	464	(6)
The Hundred Secret Senses	465	(1)
The Joy Luck Club	466	(1)
The Kitchen God's Wife	467	(3)
Jose Antonio Villarreal	470	(3)
Pocho	471	(2)
Helena Maria Viramontes	473	(4)
The Moths and Other Stories	474	(1)
Under the Feet of Jesus	475	(2)
Gerald Vizenor	477	(5)
The Heirs of Columbus	478	(1)
Interior Landscapes	479	(1)
Wordarrows	480	(2)
Alice Walker	482	(4)
The Color Purple	483	(1)
Possessing the Secret of Joy	484	(2)
Booker T. Washington	486	(4)
Up from Slavery	488	(2)
Wendy Wasserstein	490	(4)
The Heidi Chronicles	491	(1)
The Sisters Rosensweig	492	(2)
James Welch	494	(3)
Fools Crow	495	(2)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett	497	(3)
Crusade for Justice	498	(2)
John Edgar Wideman	500	(4)
Brothers and Keepers	501	(1)
The Homewood Trilogy	502	(2)
Elie Wiesel	504	(5)
All Rivers Run to the Sea	505	(1)
A Beggar in Jerusalem	506	(1)
Night	507	(2)
August Wilson	509	(5)
Fences	510	(1)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	511	(1)
Two Trains Running	512	(2)
Jade Snow Wong	514	(3)
Fifth Chinese Daughter	515	(2)
Jay Wright	517	(3)
Poetry	518	(2)
Richard Wright	520	(4)
American Hunger	521	(1)
Black Boy	522	(2)
Mitsuye Yasutake Yamada	524	(3)
Camp Notes and Other Poems	525	(2)
Hisaye Yamamoto	527	(6)
``Seventeen Syllables''	528	(5)
Author Index	533	(2)
Title Index	535	(4)
Ethnic Identity List	539