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Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing about Learning to Be American

Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing about Learning to Be American

Gillan, Maria Mazziotti
Gillan, Jennifer

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ISBN10: 0140271678
ISBN13: 9780140271676
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Feb 1 1999
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.09
Language: English
In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide array of ethnic perspectives on growing up in America. Leading the reader into the living-rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and movie houses of America, distinguished writers from all points of the American ethnic landscape shed light on the space between conformity and difference, and examine the struggle between the need to belong and the pull of one's cultural roots. With insight, wit, and poignancy, the contributors to this anthology recall their attempts to reconcile family from the old country with the powerful messages about race, gender and class confronting them in their new surroundings. A collection of superb and moving writing, Identity Lessons deconstructs conceptions of personal and national identity, and forms an indispensable primer for understanding our cultural selves.

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