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Multitude : cross-cultural readings for writers
Title
Multitude : cross-cultural readings for writers / Chitra Divakaruni.
ISBN
007017086X
9780070170865
Edition
Second edition.
Publication
New York : McGraw Hill Companies, [1997]
Copyright Notice Date
©1997
Physical Description
xxvi, 591 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 12052: Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 FGR FGR 9 0 9 8 7 6. Paperbound. From the library of Ved Mehta.
Summary
Brings together a diverse spectrum of voices and issues that reflect our society. This anthology is divided into 10 broad themes and provides a variety of perspectives on the ways people connect across boundaries of ethnicity, class, gender, age, and geography.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 18, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of Selections by Rhetorical Mode
Preface
1 The Time When There Were No People on the Earth Plain: Bering Strait Eskimo Creation Myth (starting p. 4)
2 On Love, from "Symposium" (starting p. 8) / Plato
3 Genesis, Chapters 1, 2, and 3: The Creation and the Fall: From the King James Version of the Bible (starting p. 13)
4 Letter Describing the Results of His First Voyage (starting p. 19) / Christopher Columbus
5 The Promised Land (starting p. 25) / Mary Antin
6 America Singing: An Address to the Newly Arrived Peoples (starting p. 30) / Garrett Hongo
7 My Early Years (starting p. 41) / Frederick Douglass
8 Chronicle (poem) (starting p. 49) / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
9 Born Without Light: The Effect of Slavery on African American Children (starting p. 52) / Mary Peterson
10 Families (starting p. 62) / Jane Howard
11 Variations on a Theme (starting p. 67) / Jean Seligmann
12 Finding A Wife (starting p. 75) / Gary Soto
13 Pom's Engagement (starting p. 79) / Ved Mehta
14 TV Families (starting p. 87) / Ella Taylor
15 Teenagers in Crisis (starting p. 97) / David Elkind
16 Mothers, Sons and the Gangs (starting p. 107) / Sue Horton
17 Beyond Manzanar (starting p. 117) / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
18 Nani (poem) (starting p. 128) / Alberto Rios
19 A New Breed of Fathers (starting p. 131) / Kirill Dmitriev
20 Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today (starting p. 140) / Phyllis Rose
21 No Name Woman (starting p. 144) / Maxine Hong Kingston
22 Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture (starting p. 154) / Robert Levine, Ellen Wolff
23 The Last of the Kiowas (starting p. 160) / N. Scott Momaday
24 America's Emerging Gay Culture (starting p. 166) / Randall Majors
25 Amish Economics (starting p. 176) / Gene Logsdon
26 An Indian Family in New York (starting p. 185) / Bharati Mukherjee
27 The Japanese Syndrome (starting p. 192) / Keiko Nozoe
28 American Space, Chinese Place (starting p. 200) / Yi-Fu Tuan
29 El Hoyo (starting p. 203) / Mario Suarez
30 The Perfect House (starting p. 206) / Farley Mowat
31 Cultural Shock in Reverse (starting p. 211) / James R. Corey
32 Gay Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco (starting p. 216) / Frances FitzGerald
33 Heaven (poem) (starting p. 227) / Cathy Song
34 Home (starting p. 230) / Lucretia Dibba
35 School Days of an Indian Girl (starting p. 238) / Zitkala-Sa
36 Getting Tough (starting p. 246) / Ezra Bowen
37 Shame (starting p. 255) / Dick Gregory
38 By Any Other Name (starting p. 260) / Santha Rama Rau
39 Footsteps of My Life (starting p. 266) / Helen Keller
40 Barba Nikos (starting p. 274) / Harry Mark Petrakis
41 I Ask My Mother to Sing (poem) (starting p. 279) / Li-Young Lee
42 Discovery (starting p. 281) / Liann Sumner
43 Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments (starting p. 289) / Robert Heilbroner
44 Twice an Outsider: On Being Jewish and a Woman (starting p. 293) / Vivian Gornick
45 Unfair Game (starting p. 301) / Susan Jacoby
46 Distancing the Homeless (starting p. 305) / Jonathan Kozol
47 In Response to Executive Order 9066 (poem) (starting p. 316) / Dwight Okita
48 Miami: The Cuban Presence (starting p. 318) / Joan Didion
49 Hair (starting p. 327) / Malcolm X.
50 The Economics of Hate (starting p. 330) / Andromeda Polhemus
51 Linguistic Factors in Prejudice (starting p. 340) / Gordon Allport
52 Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean? (starting p. 350) / Gloria Naylor
53 Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood (starting p. 354) / Richard Rodriguez
54 Viva Bilingualism (starting p. 371) / James Fallows
55 Ethics and the Language of AIDS (starting p. 376) / Judith Wilson Ross
56 Breaking Silence (poem) (starting p. 387) / Janice Mirikitani
57 Language and Literature from a Pueblo Perspective (starting p. 391) / Leslie Marmon Silko
58 Silence Is a Loud, Loud Language (starting p. 401) / Bobbie Su Nadal
59 Where I Come From Is Like This (starting p. 410) / Paula Gunn Allen
60 The Men We Carry in Our Minds (starting p. 417) / Scott Russell Sanders
61 Manufactured Images: How Women Appear in Advertising (starting p. 422) / Nina Easton
62 Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab (starting p. 430) / Nawal el-Saadawi
63 Graduation (starting p. 448) / Maya Angelou
64 Shooting an Elephant (starting p. 458) / George Orwell
65 Why They Hated Us: A Study of the Nature of British Imperialism (starting p. 465) / Jaana Parkkinen
66 Football Red and Baseball Green (starting p. 474) / Murray Ross
67 Can TV Help Save Black Youth? (starting p. 481) / Diane Goldner
68 Sin, Suffer and Repent (starting p. 486) / Donna Woolfolk Cross
69 Eight Ways of Looking at an Amusement Park (starting p. 493) / Russell B. Nye
70 An Often Long Journey: An Interview with Joy Harjo (starting p. 508) / Laura Coltelli
71 "Cinderella": A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts (starting p. 514) / Bruno Bettelheim
72 "Cinderella": A Tale That Promotes Sexist Values (starting p. 521) / Pei-ti Feng
73 The Cult of Ethnicity, Good or Bad (starting p. 528) / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
74 Communication in a Global Village (starting p. 532) / Dean Barnlund
75 Minor Accidents (starting p. 542) / Raymonde Carroll
76 On Friendship (starting p. 551) / Margaret Mead, Rhoda Metraux
77 Thriving as an Outsider, Even an Outcast, in Smalltown America (starting p. 556) / Louie Crew
78 The Real Lesson of L.A. (starting p. 564) / Bill Bradley
79 Typical (starting p. 570) / Mark Singer
80 Mostly Scared: Handling Prejudice in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (starting p. 574) / Craig Wilson
81 Crossing Bridges (starting p. 577) / Karen Kampf
Glossary (starting p. 583)
Index of Authors and Titles (starting p. 585)
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Problems and exercises.
Problems and exercises.
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United States New York (State) New York.
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