American identities : contemporary multicultural voices /

Contemporary commentators have observed that postmodern America is less a melting pot than a buffet table. In American Identities people of diverse ethnic, religious, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds "refuse to merge but insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities," editor...

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Other Authors: Pack, Robert, 1929-, Pack, Robert, 1929-2023, Parini, Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England, [1994], ©1994
Hanover, NH : c1994
Hanover, NH : ©1994
Hanover, NH : [1994]
Series:Bread Loaf anthology
A Bread Loaf anthology
Bread Loaf anthology
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Clayfield Prunes His Apple Trees
  • Jay Parini
  • Anthracite Country
  • Playing in the Mines
  • 1913
  • The Miner's Wake
  • Coal Train
  • Linda Pastan
  • Grudnow
  • It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank
  • A Real Story
  • Rachel (a ewe)
  • A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century
  • Ted Perry
  • A Secret Place, with View
  • Samuel F. Pickering, Jr.
  • Gathering
  • Ron Powers
  • Losing the Aristocratic Taint
  • John Preston
  • A New England Chorus
  • William H. Pritchard
  • Ear Training
  • Lev Raphael
  • History (with Dreams)
  • Ishmael Reed
  • Distant Cousins
  • Richard Rodriguez
  • Family Values
  • Lee Ann Roripaugh
  • Chrysanthemums
  • Ningyo
  • Sarah Schulman
  • Rat Bohemia
  • Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  • Being There
  • Gary Soto
  • One Last Time
  • Robert B. Stepto
  • Idlewild
  • Michelle Taigue
  • Between Silence and Sanction
  • Gay Talese
  • The Italian-American Voice: Where Is It?
  • Gore Vidal
  • West Point
  • Terry Tempest Williams
  • White Pelicans
  • Hilma Wolitzer
  • Introduction / Jay Parini and Robert Pack
  • Julia Alvarez
  • Homecoming
  • Queens, 1963
  • James Atlas
  • Chicago Highbrow
  • Pinckney Benedict
  • Bank Examiners
  • Larry Brown
  • A Late Start in Mississippi
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • Advanced Biology
  • William C. Cook
  • Hudson Hornet
  • Maternity
  • Translations
  • Times Square Hotel - Basement Floor
  • First Baptist Church: Princeton New Jersey
  • Melvin Dixon
  • The Boy with Beer
  • Michael Dorris
  • Home
  • Louise Erdrich
  • Conversions
  • Garrett Hongo
  • Kubota
  • Robert Houston
  • Reconstruction
  • Erica Jong
  • How I Got to Be Jewish
  • Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Monticello
  • Rendezvous
  • Anthony, Isabella ...
  • Henry the Navigator
  • Other Worlds
  • Michael Kraus
  • Prague: A Poem Reappearing
  • Leslie Li
  • Empty Bamboo
  • Nancy Mairs
  • Voice Lessons
  • Paul Mariani
  • The Gospel According to Walter
  • Fog Warning
  • The Conning Towers of My Father's War
  • Class
  • Robert Pack
  • South Bronx, 1939
  • Today, a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
  • Jacqueline Woodson
  • Autobiography of a Family Photo
  • Clara Yu
  • Virgin River Bride
  • June Elegy
  • Skull
  • Swallows of Xi'an
  • Introduction / Jay Parini and Robert Pack / Julia Alvarez
  • Homecoming
  • Queens, 1963 / James Atlas
  • Chicago Highbrow / Pinckney Benedict
  • Bank Examiners / Larry Brown
  • A Late Start in Mississippi / Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • Advanced Biology / William C. Cook
  • Hudson Hornet
  • Maternity
  • Translations
  • Times Square Hotel - Basement Floor
  • First Baptist Church: Princeton New Jersey / Melvin Dixon
  • The Boy with Beer / Michael Dorris
  • Home / Louise Erdrich
  • Conversions / Garrett Hongo
  • Kubota / Robert Houston
  • Reconstruction / Erica Jong
  • How I Got to Be Jewish / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Monticello
  • Rendezvous
  • Anthony, Isabella ...
  • Henry the Navigator
  • Other Worlds / Michael Kraus
  • Prague: A Poem Reappearing / Leslie Li
  • Empty Bamboo / Nancy Mairs
  • Voice Lessons / Paul Mariani
  • The Gospel According to Walter
  • Fog Warning
  • The Conning Towers of My Father's War
  • Class / Robert Pack
  • South Bronx, 1939
  • Clayfield Prunes His Apple Trees / Jay Parini
  • Anthracite Country
  • Playing in the Mines
  • 1913
  • The Miner's Wake
  • Coal Train / Linda Pastan
  • Grudnow
  • It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank
  • A Real Story
  • Rachel (a ewe)
  • A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century / Ted Perry
  • A Secret Place, with View / Samuel F. Pickering, Jr.
  • Gathering / Ron Powers
  • Losing the Aristocratic Taint / John Preston
  • A New England Chorus / William H. Pritchard
  • Ear Training / Lev Raphael
  • History (with Dreams) / Ishmael Reed
  • Distant Cousins / Richard Rodriguez
  • Family Values / Lee Ann Roripaugh
  • Chrysanthemums
  • Ningyo / Sarah Schulman
  • Rat Bohemia / Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  • Being There / Gary Soto
  • One Last Time / Robert B. Stepto
  • Idlewild / Michelle Taigue
  • Between Silence and Sanction / Gay Talese
  • The Italian-American Voice: Where Is It? / Gore Vidal
  • West Point / Terry Tempest Williams
  • White Pelicans / Hilma Wolitzer
  • Today, a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket / Jacqueline Woodson
  • Autobiography of a Family Photo / Clara Yu
  • Virgin River Bride
  • June Elegy
  • Skull
  • Swallows of Xi'an