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

Publication Info. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.8092 CROSSING    Check Shelf
Description xxvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359).
Contents From diary of an undocumented immigrant / Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez -- 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 ganster 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 caribbo cafe / Helena María 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 -- AmeRícan / 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 / Martín Espada -- Pidgin contest along I-5 / Frank Chin -- Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales -- Exile / Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- The legal mapping of U.S. immigration, 1965-1996 / Leti Volpp -- "A nation of immigrants": select opinion on immigration since 1965 -- Between necessity and freedom: a roundtable discussion on recent immigration issues / Anannya Bhattacharjee -- The new immigration and the literature of Asian America / Seung Hye Suh and Robert Ji-Song Ku -- Amor de lejos: Latino (im)migration literatures/ B.V. Olguín
Subject 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 collections.
Added Author Mendoza, Louis Gerard, 1960-
Shankar, Subramanian, 1962-
ISBN 1565847202 hardcover
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