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Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writer
Edited by Randall Bass , Georgetown University
Joy Young , Georgetown University
Publishing Info: Houghton Miflin ISBN:
(0-618-23497-7) 704 Pages
Paper © 2003
General Category: Non-Fiction
Genre:
Anthology
// Essay
Sub-genre: Cultural Criticism
Nationality: - American
Time Period: 20th
Century / 21 Century/ Contemporary
First and Last Read: August 2000 / August - 2002
Rated: - ?
Use: ENG3093
Advanced Composition
Location: - Heritage Bookstore
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Table of Contents
- 1. Borders of Identity: Stories of the Self
- Anon. Hopi: The Hopi Boy and the Sun [story]
- Anna Deavere Smith: Fires in the Mirror [play]
- Robert Hass: A Story About the Body [prose poem]
- Thomas King: Borders [essay]
- Joel Gilbert/Noel Ignatiev: Who Lost an America [interview]
- Gerald B. Song: That Time I Hit My Head [student essay]
- Ivette Chavarria: Cooking Culture: The Tamale [student essay]
- Amy Tan: Mother Tongue [essay]
- Jim Mince: The Beginning of the End [essay]
- Paul Schellenbacher [online journal]
- Evelyn Lau: Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid [diary]
- Tara Masih: Exotic, or What Beach Do You Hang Out On? [essay]
- Frank Bidart: Ellen West [poem]
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- 2. Borders of Community: Difference and Otherness
- Ruben Martinez: Going Up in LA [essay and photos]
- Leonard Kriegel: Tunnel Notes of a New Yorker [essay]
- Kai Erickson: Collective Trauma: Loss of Communality [essay]
- Daniel Kemmis: The Last Best Place: How Hardship and Limits Build
Community [essay]
- Randall Balmer: Georgia Charismatics [essay]
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives [essay and photos]
- Peter Marin: Helping and Hating the Homeless [essay]
- David Sibley: Feelings about Difference [essay and photos]
- Elizabeth Bishop: In the Waiting Room [poem]
- Margery Garber: Vested Interests [essay]
- John Hartigan: The Baseball Game [essay]
- Robert Berkhofer Jr.: The White Man's Indian [essay]
- Stuart Hall: Ethnicity: Identity and Difference [essay]
- Gwendolyn Brooks: We Real Cool [poem]
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- 3. Negotiating Borders: The Dynamics of Difference
- Mary Louise Pratt: Arts of the Contact Zone [essay]
- Richard White: The Middle Ground [essay]
- Roger Williams: A Key into the Language [phrasebook]
- Wong Sam and Assistants: An English Chinese Phrasebook
[phrasebook]
- Robert Blauner: Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages
about Race [essay]
- Rita Dove: Arrow [poem]
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail [essay]
- Tim O'Brien: Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong [essay]
- Mary Gaitskill: On Not Being a Victim [essay]
- Lester Bangs: White Noise Supremacists [essay]
- Sherry Turkle: Tinysex and Gender Trouble [essay]
- Frantz Fanon: The Fact of Blackness [essay]
- Art Spiegelman: MAUS: A Survivor's Tale [graphic story]
- Andrea Lowenstein: Confronting Stereotypes--Teaching Maus in
Crown Heights [essay]
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- Image Portfolio