American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (Bread Loaf Anthology)

742 Pages·1994·1.75 MB·English

by  Robert Pack

American Identities : Contemporary
title:
Multicultural Voices
author: Pack, Robert
publisher: University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin: 0874517591
print isbn13: 9780874517590
ebook isbn13: 9780585333076
language: English
American literature--Minority authors,
Ethnic groups--United States--Literary
collections, Pluralism (Social sciences)--
subject
Literary collections, Minorities--United
States--Literary collections, American
literature--20th century.
publication date: 1994
lcc: PS508.M54A43 1994eb
ddc: 810.8/0920693
American literature--Minority authors,
Ethnic groups--United States--Literary
collections, Pluralism (Social sciences)--
subject:
Literary collections, Minorities--United
States--Literary collections, American
literature--20th century.
Page i
American Identities
Page ii
A BREAD LOAF ANTHOLOGY
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, edited
by Robert Pack, Sydney Lea, and Jay Parini, 1985.
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Short Stories,
edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1985.
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays, edited
by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1989.
Writers on Writing, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1991.
Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry
edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1993.
American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices edited by
Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1994.
Page iii
American Identities
Contemporary Multicultural Voices
Edited by
Robert Pack
Jay Parini
Page iv
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PRESS
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
© 1994 by the President and Fellows of Middlebury College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
data appear at the end of the book
CIP
Acknowledgments for previously published pieces appear on page
371.
Page v
Contents
Introduction ix
Jay Parini and Robert Pack
Homecoming 1
Queens, 1963 2
Julia Alvarez
Chicago Highbrow 5
James Atlas
Bank Examiners 25
Pinckney Benedict
A Late Start in Mississippi 29
Larry Brown
Advanced Biology 35
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Hudson Hornet 43
Maternity 44
Translations 45
Times Square HotelBasement Floor 46
First Baptist Church: Princeton New Jersey 48
William C. Cook
The Boy with Beer 49
Melvin Dixon
Home 58
Michael Dorris
Conversions 66
Louise Erdrich
Kubota 71
Garrett Hongo
Reconstruction 81
Robert Houston
How I Got to Be Jewish 90
Erica Jong
Monticello 100
Rendezvous 101
Anthony, Isabella . . . 104
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Henry the Navigator 105
Other Worlds 106
Prague: A Poem Reappearing 107
Michael Kraus
Empty Bamboo 115
Leslie Li
Voice Lessons 123
Nancy Mairs
The Gospel According to Walter 135
Fog Warning 136
The Conning Towers of My Father's War 137
Class 139
Paul Mariani
South Bronx, 1939 151
Clayfield Prunes His Apple Trees 152
Robert Pack
Anthracite Country 155
Playing in the Mines 155
1913 156
The Miner's Wake 157
Coal Train 157
Jay Parini
Grudnow 159
It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank 160
A Real Story 160
Rachel (a Ewe) 161
A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth 162
Century
Linda Pastan
A Secret Place, with View 163
Ted Perry
Gathering 172
Samuel F. Pickering, Jr.
Losing the Aristocratic Taint 182
Ron Powers
A New England Chorus 187
John Preston
Ear Training 197
William H. Pritchard
History (with Dreams) 211
Lev Raphael
Distant Cousins 223
Ishmael Reed
Family Values 229
Richard Rodriguez
Chrysanthemums 236
Ningyo 238
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Rat Bohemia 240
Sarah Schulman
Being There 247
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
One Last Time 269
Gary Soto