American Tensions : Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice /

This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change. Living American writers produced each piece between 1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary merit and the manner in which they add...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reichard, William, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Group identity > United States > Literary collections.
Social justice > United States > Literary collections.
Social problems > United States > Literary collections.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • section 1. The lives we're given, the lives we make. Future home of the living god / Louise Erdrich
  • Speaking of names / B.H. Fairchild
  • The machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / B.H. Fairchild
  • Work / B.H. Fairchild
  • Keats / B.H. Fairchild
  • Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison
  • The root woman / Nickole Brown
  • The smell of snake / Nickole Brown
  • Trestle / Nickole
  • In winter / Nickole Brown
  • Straddling fences / Nickole Brown
  • At the galleria / Tony Hoaglund
  • Dialectical materialism / Tony Hoaglund
  • The florist's daughter / Patricia Hampl
  • Other meaning / Nick Flynn
  • Seven Fragments / Nick Flynn
  • Father outside / Nick Flynn
  • Good to go / Jonis Agee
  • Man on the TV say / Patricia Smith
  • Only everything I own / Patricia Smith
  • Inconvenient / Patricia Smith
  • What to tweak / Patricia Smith
  • Golden rule days / Patricia Smith
  • $00/line/steel/train (excerpts) / Mark Nowak
  • Lessons / James Cihlar
  • Lincoln avenue / James Cihlar
  • Resolution / James Cihlar
  • Undoing / James Cihlar
  • Manikin / J.C. Hallman
  • Avoidance / Hilda Raz
  • Said to Sarah, ten / Hilda Raz
  • Trans / Hilda Raz
  • Aaron at work/rain / Hilda Raz
  • Hymns to nanan / Greg Hewett
  • section 2. That which holds us together, that which pulls us apart. An atlas of the difficult / Adrienne Rich
  • Speaking English is like / Kristin Naca
  • Uses for Spanish in Pittsburgh / Kristin Naca
  • Grocery shopping with my girlfriend who is not Asian / Kristin Naca
  • Speaking Spanish is like / Kristin Naca
  • Indian education / Sherman Alexie
  • The history of my shoes and the evolution of Darwin's theory / Kenny Fries
  • Fugue / Elizabeth Alexander
  • Overture: watermelon city / Elizabeth Alexander
  • Observation post #71 / Brian Turner
  • Here, bullet / Brian Turner
  • AB negative / Brian Turner
  • Night in blue / Brian Turner
  • Praise the tortilla, praise menudo, praise chorizo / Ray Gonzalez
  • The magnets / Ray Gonzalez
  • These days / Ray Gonzalez
  • I didn't sleep / Marvin Bell
  • Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 / Marvin Bell
  • Messy / Marvin Bell
  • Poem post-9/11/01 / Marvin Bell
  • First generation angels / David Mura
  • The young Asian women / David Mura
  • Father blues for Jon Wang / David Mura
  • Minneapolis public / David Mura
  • Under the influence / Scott Russell Sanders
  • Guidelines for the treatment of sacred objects / Heid Erdrich
  • The theft outright / Heid Erdrich
  • Butter maiden and maize girl survive / Heid Erdrich
  • Death leap / Heid Erdrich
  • The lone reader and tonchee fistfight in pages / Heid Erdrich
  • Charlie Howard's descent / Mark Doty
  • Tiara / Mark Doty
  • Homo will not inherit / Mark Doty
  • Beginners / Mark Doty
  • Art lessons / Mark Doty
  • Toward a portrait of the undocumented / Javier O. Huerta
  • Blasphemous elegy for May 14, 2003 / Javier O. Huerta
  • The rain, the rez and other things / Eric Gansworth
  • Autobiography of my alter ego / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • 1959, Loomis avenue / Philip Bryant
  • Akhenaten / Philip Bryant
  • The glue that held everything together / Philip Bryant
  • Spirit car: journey to a Dakota past / Diane Wilson
  • Conjuring war / Scott Hightower
  • Falling man / Scott Hightower
  • But at the church / Scott Hightower
  • Polygutteral / Ed Bok Lee
  • Burnt offering: mid-November / Ed Bok Lee
  • Frozen in the sky / Ed Bok Lee
  • The secret to life in America / Ed Bok Lee
  • section 3. The edge of the world. The contemporary environment. Culture, biology and emergence / Alison Hawthorne Deming
  • Designer genes / Bill McKibben
  • So much like a beach after all / Deborah Keenan
  • It is fair to be crossing / Deborah Keenan
  • Not getting tired of the earth / Deborah Keenan
  • Between now and then / Deborah Keenan
  • Lone tree, 1986 / Donald Morrill
  • Continental divide / D.A. Powell
  • Cancer inside the little sea / D.A. Powell
  • Cloudy is the stuff of stones / Anthony Doerr
  • Humble / Linda Hogan
  • Rapture / Linda Hogan
  • The radiant / Linda Hogan
  • The night constant / Linda Hogan
  • Waterfront property / Barrie Jean Borich
  • Alice and Emily, Diana and Dunes / Emily Watson.

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