Frank Chin - Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co.: Short Stories

Eight stories describe the experiences of Chinese-Americans in modern California.

Alurista - Et Tu ... Raza

Gerald Vizenor - Griever: An American Monkey, King in China

Weaving political commentaries, cultural adventures, and Chinese and Native American Indian myths into stories rich in adventure and mystery, Griever: An American Monkey King in China is about Griever ...

First Fish, First People: Sal mon Tales of the North Pacific Rim

This collection brings together writers from two continents and four countries whose traditional cultures are based on Pacific wild salmon. 72 duotone photos. Line drawings.

Columbia Literary History of the United States

For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative, up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties ...

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick - Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter

Growing up as an Italian American in Bensonhurst, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP heroes on television - like Robin Hood and the ...

Henry Louis Gates - The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature.

Alejandro Murguia - Southern Front

Bienvenido N. Santos - Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories

This collection of sixteen short stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to the attention of an American audience. Born in the Phillipines, Mr. Santos first came to the United ...

John Edgar Wideman - Philadelphia Fire

At once personal and political, this novel about being black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed ...