Crossing into America : the new literature of immigration / edited by Louis Mendoza and S. Shankar.

Contributor(s): Mendoza, Louis Gerard, 1960- | Shankar, Subramanian, 1962-Material type: TextTextDescription: xxvi, 365 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 1565847202 (hc.); 9781565847200 (hc.); 1565848950; 9781565848955Subject(s): Immigrants' writings, American | Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism | Emigration and immigration -- Literary collections | Children of immigrants -- Literary collections | American literature -- Minority authors | Ethnic groups -- Literary collections | American literature -- 20th century | Immigrants -- Literary collectionsLOC classification: PS508.I45 | C76 2003
Contents:
From diary of an undocumented immigrant / Ramn "Tianguis" Prez -- Our papers / Julia Alvarez -- From A map of where I live / S. Shankar -- From Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- From To see and see again : a life in Iran and America / Tara Bahrampour -- Geraldo No Last Name / Sandra Cisneros -- From The gangster of love / Jessica Hagedorn -- From dreambirds : the strange history of the ostrich in fashion, food, and fortune / Rob Nixon -- Bi-lingual / Andrei Codrescu -- Crossing "a piece of earth" / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- From Between the lines / Salvador Mendoza -- From Between the lines / Sylvia Martinez -- From Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid -- Hae Soon's song / Gary Pak -- Exile / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- From Native speaker / Chang-rae Lee -- The Cariboo Cafe / Helena Mara Viramontes -- My new world journey / Nola Kambanda -- Snow on the desert / Agha Shahid Ali -- From We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? / Achy Obejas -- AmeRcan / Tato Laviera -- Made in the tropics / Vijay Seshadri -- Absorption of rock / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The cleaving / Li-Young Lee -- Mexico's children / Richard Rodriguez -- Thanksgiving / Martn Espada -- Pidgin contest along I-5 / Frank Chin -- Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales -- Exile / Benjamin Alire Senz -- The legal mapping of U.S. immigration, 1965-1996 / by Leti Volpp -- "A nation of immigrants" : select opinion on immigration since 1965 -- Between necessity and freedom : a roundtable discussion on recent immigration issues / moderated by Anannya Bhattacharjee -- The new immigration and the literature of Asian America / by Seung Hye Suh and Robert Ji-Song Ku -- Amor de lejos : Latino (im)migration literatures / by B.V. Olgun.
Summary: Collects writings by such top contributors as Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Richard Rodriguez, as well as a host of new writers, to present a history of modern immigration and reflections on the immigrant experience.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359).

From diary of an undocumented immigrant / Ramn "Tianguis" Prez -- Our papers / Julia Alvarez -- From A map of where I live / S. Shankar -- From Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- From To see and see again : a life in Iran and America / Tara Bahrampour -- Geraldo No Last Name / Sandra Cisneros -- From The gangster of love / Jessica Hagedorn -- From dreambirds : the strange history of the ostrich in fashion, food, and fortune / Rob Nixon -- Bi-lingual / Andrei Codrescu -- Crossing "a piece of earth" / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- From Between the lines / Salvador Mendoza -- From Between the lines / Sylvia Martinez -- From Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid -- Hae Soon's song / Gary Pak -- Exile / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- From Native speaker / Chang-rae Lee -- The Cariboo Cafe / Helena Mara Viramontes -- My new world journey / Nola Kambanda -- Snow on the desert / Agha Shahid Ali -- From We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? / Achy Obejas -- AmeRcan / Tato Laviera -- Made in the tropics / Vijay Seshadri -- Absorption of rock / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The cleaving / Li-Young Lee -- Mexico's children / Richard Rodriguez -- Thanksgiving / Martn Espada -- Pidgin contest along I-5 / Frank Chin -- Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales -- Exile / Benjamin Alire Senz -- The legal mapping of U.S. immigration, 1965-1996 / by Leti Volpp -- "A nation of immigrants" : select opinion on immigration since 1965 -- Between necessity and freedom : a roundtable discussion on recent immigration issues / moderated by Anannya Bhattacharjee -- The new immigration and the literature of Asian America / by Seung Hye Suh and Robert Ji-Song Ku -- Amor de lejos : Latino (im)migration literatures / by B.V. Olgun.

Collects writings by such top contributors as Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Richard Rodriguez, as well as a host of new writers, to present a history of modern immigration and reflections on the immigrant experience.

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