| Description |
xxxvi, 709 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Fire / Joy Harjo -- Ancestors: In praise of the imperishable / Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Hermano / Angela de Hoyos -- Second nature / Diana Chang -- Muliebrity / Sujata Bhatt -- The Beirut-Hell Express / Etel Adnan -- The prisoner / Ai (Pelorhankhe Ogawa) -- Suicid/ing(ed) Indian woman / Paula Gunn Allen -- Our grandmothers / Maya Angelou -- I want to renegade / S. Brandi Barnes -- My womb / Esmeralda Bernal -- Farolita / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge -- For Mama (and her mamas, too) ; To Grandmother's house we go / Nora Brooks Blakely -- for all my grandmothers / Beth Brant -- The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The antihero / Ana Castillo -- Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between the races / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- africans sleeping in the park at night / Eileen Cherry -- We are Americans now, we live in the tundra / Marilyn (Mei Ling) Chin -- I make the fire ; Those tears / Chrystos -- what the mirror said / Lucille Clifton -- Una mujer loca ; What the gypsy said to her children / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Marina ; Dark romance /Lucha Corpi -- In the morning / Jayne Cortez -- Reunion / Thadious M. Davis -- Adolescence-I ; Adolescence-II ; Adolescence-III / Rita Dove -- Dear John Wayne / Louise Erdrich -- I am a black woman / Mari Evans -- Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni -- The second time / Rebecca Gonzales -- When I cut my hair / Rayna Green -- Motown/Smokey Robinson / Jessica Hagedorn -- Spider dream / Elaine Hall -- I give you back / Joy Harjo -- The history of fire ; The lost girls / Linda Hogan -- What I said as a child ; In her solitude: The Inca divining spider (Ana) / Angela Jackson -- I done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain / Patricia Jones -- War and memory / June Jordan -- Sewing woman / Alison Kim -- Into such assembly / Myung Mi Kim -- On writing Asian-American poetry / Geraldine Kudaka -- Wonder woman ; Children are color-blind / Genny Lim -- I am the weaver / Abby Lincoln (Aminata Moseka) -- The woman thing / Audre Lorde -- Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett -- Generations of women ; Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe / Janice Mirikitani -- The welder / Cherrie Moraga -- My father and the figtree / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Where will you be? / Pat Parker -- First stop/City of senses / Carmen M. Pursifull -- Good-bye, my loved one / Diana Rivera -- Our side of it / Marina Rivera -- Poem for some black women / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Julia ; Sipapu / Wendy Rose -- Past / Sonia Sanchez -- Defining the grateful gesture / Yvonne Sapia -- five / Ntozake Shange -- Metamorphosis / Carol P. Snow -- Keep a dime / Debra Swallow -- Suburban Indian Pride ; Giving back / Tahnahga -- Matmiya / Mary Tallmountain -- My mother sews blouses / Gina Valdes -- In the summer after "Issue Year" winter (1873) ; Star quilt / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- from "The Iconography of childhood" / Sherley Anne Williams -- When I was growing up ; For an Asian woman who says my poetry gives her a stomachache / Nellie Wong -- The handbook of sex of the plain girl / Marian Yee -- Deep purple / Paula Gunn Allen -- A girl's story / Toni Cade Bambara -- Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros -- American horse / Louise Erdrich -- Recuerdo / Guadalupe Valdes Fallis -- Making do / Linda Hogan -- from Black is a woman's color / bell hooks -- At the bottom of the river / Jamaica Kincaid -- Preciousness / Clarice Lispector -- Two deserts / Valerie Matsumoto -- A wife's story / Bharati Mukherjee -- Paths upon water / Tahira Naqvi -- The heart of the flower / Georgiana Valoyce Sanchez -- Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Miss Clairol / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Wilshire Bus / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Novena Narrativas / Denise Chavez -- Hospice: a play in one act / Pearl Cleage -- Shango diaspora: An African-American myth of womanhood and love / Angela Jackson -- The day of the swallows: A drama in three acts / Estela Portillo -- And the soul shall dance / Wakako Yamauchi -- You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan -- "You may consider speaking about your art" / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Some lines or a younger brother ... / Sue Kunitomi Embrey -- Homeplace (a site of resistence) / bell hooks -- Learning from the 60s / Audre Lorde -- Grandma's story / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- La Guera / Cherrie Moraga -- Rootedness: The ancestor as foundation / Toni Morrison -- Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- An oral history (Testimonio) / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso -- In search of our mother's gardens / Alice Walker -- Fire and ice (Some thoughts on property, appearance, and the language of lawmakers) / Patricia J. Williams -- Letter to Ma / Merle Woo -- Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman / Mitsuye Yamada -- Something sacred going on out there: Myth and vision in American Indian Literature / Paula Gunn Allen -- La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldua -- The highs and lows of Black feminist criticism / Barbara Christian -- Defining Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Defining Asian American realities through literature / Elaine H. Kim -- The dilemma of the modern Chicana artist and critic / Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo -- Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and loving perception / Maria Lugones -- The politics of poetics: Or, What am I, a critic, doing in this text anyhow? / Tey Diana Rebolledo -- The truth that never hurts: Black lesbians in fiction in the 1980's / Barbara Smith - Black feminist theory and the representation of the "Other" / Valerie Smith |
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American literature -- Women authors.
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Ethnic groups -- United States -- Literary collections.
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Women -- United States -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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Ethnic groups -- United States.
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Women -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Madison, D. Soyini.
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| ISBN |
0312100124 |
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9780312100124 |
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0312079567 paperback |
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9780312079567 paperback |
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