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9780786865895

Becoming American : Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780786865895

  • ISBN10:

    078686589X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-02-16
  • Publisher: Hyperion

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Summary

Immigrant women writers discuss the fears and pleasures of learning how to call America "home."

Table of Contents

Doing Archaeology in My America
1(11)
Nina Barragan
Turbulent Times
12(9)
Lilianet Brintrup
Secret Latina at Large
21(8)
Veronica Chambers
Rituals: A Prayer, a Candle, and a Notebook
29(10)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
AHA!
39(6)
Edwidge Danticat
Coming Home
45(10)
Gabrielle Donnelly
Embracing the Alien
55(13)
Lynn Freed
The Remembering
68(8)
Akuyoe Graham
The Country of Childhood
76(9)
Lucy Grealy
A Road Still Becoming
85(10)
Suheir Hammad
Code Switching
95(9)
Ginu Kamani
My New World Journey
104(9)
Nola Kambanda
Beyond Boundaries
113(13)
Helen Kim
Disassembling Helie
126(12)
Helie Lee
Becoming Midwestern
138(8)
Kyoko Mori
Recalling a Child of October
146(10)
Irina Reyn
On Becoming
156(9)
Nelly Rosario
Now Is the Time to Try Something---But Have I Got Nine Lives?
165(11)
Ute Margaret Saine
Whispered Histories
176(11)
Rosanne Katon-Walden
Reluctant Citizen
187(11)
Annette Gallagher Weisman
Unbecoming American
198(12)
Mitsuye Yamada
The Language of Dreams
210(12)
Belle Yang
All My Relations
222(11)
Joyce Zonana
Editor & Contributor Bios 233

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