| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxvii, 676 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
Ocean of American literature / Ishmael Reed -- Chapters 7 and 8 from Fools crow / James Welch -- Excerpt from Not by the sword / Nash Candelaria -- North Albany : crucible for a childhood / William Kennedy -- Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich -- Lil' Yokohama / Toshio Mori -- Wimming to that top of the rain / J. California Cooper -- Gravesend Bay / Salvatore La Puma -- I'll crack your head Kotsun / Milton Murayama -- Chapter 14 from Lonely Crusade / Chester B. Himes -- Epithalamium / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Mulberry's notebook / Hualing Nieh -- Excerpt from Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Chapters 1 and 2 from Praisesong for the widow / Paule Marshall -- Chaper 1 from !Click song / John A. Williams -- Immigration blues / Bienvenido N. Santos -- Excerpt from Smiles on Washington Square (a love story of sorts) / Raymond Federman -- Only real day / Frank Chin -- Chapter 2 from 'Sippi / John Oliver Killens -- Chapter 3 from Right thing to do / Josephine Gattuso Hendin -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- Chapter 5 from Travelling light / Lionel Mitchell -- Chapters 1 and 2 from Mama / Terry McMillan -- Excerpts from House on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Excerpts from Pet food and tropical apparitions / Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn -- Chapters 4, 5, and 6 from Underground woman / Kay Boyle -- Excerpt from chapter 1 Book of Jamaica / Russell Banks -- Chapter 10 from Days without weather / Cecil Brown -- Excerpt from Ultraviolet sky / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Excerpt from chapter 1, Salt eaters / Toni Cade Bambara -- Excerpts from Griever : an American monkey king in China / Gerald Vizenor. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
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Trueblood, Kathryn.
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Wong, Shawn, 1949-
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Before Columbus Foundation.
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| ISBN |
0393308324 (paper) : $14.95 USA ($19.99 CAN.) |
|
0393030555 (cloth) |
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9780393030556 (cloth) |
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9780393308327 (paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM b9406703 |
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YDXCP 333734 |
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