Advanced Search Request a Book

ORDERS

Readings Orders 0

DEMANDS

Readings Demands 0

Identity Lessons:Contemporary Writing about Learning To Be american
[Paperback - 1999]
maria mazziotti gillan
On Demand
Availability in 4-6 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $24
Our Price: Rs.4195 Rs.3566
Standard Discount: 15%
You Save: Rs.629
Category: Literature
Sub-category: Literary Essays
Additional Category: Sociology - Anthropology
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780140271676 | Pages: 400
Shipping Weight: .336 | Dimensions: 5.3 x .86 x 7.96 inches

Description

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.

About the Author

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an awardwinning poet and instructor whose volumes of poetry include Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009. Her work has been appeared in a number of publications, including Boderlands, Prairie Schooner, Los Angeles Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. She is the director of the creative writing program at Binghampton University—State University of New York and the executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. 

Jennifer Gillan is a professor of English and Media Studies at Bentley University. Her other books include Television & New Media: Must-Click TV, Understanding Reality TV, and Identity Lessons, coedited with Maria Mazziotti Gillan.

Also by the Same Author

View All
Unsettling America:an Anthology Of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
[Paperback - 1994]
maria mazziotti gillan
On Demand
Availability in 4-6 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $24
Our Price: Rs.4395 Rs.3736
Standard Discount: 15%
You Save: Rs.659
Growing Up Ethnic In America:Contemporary Fiction About Learning To Be American
[Paperback - 1999]
maria mazziotti gillan
On Demand
Availability in 4-6 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $19
Our Price: Rs.3445 Rs.2928
Standard Discount: 15%
You Save: Rs.517

Bestsellers in Literature

View All
Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass
[Hardback - 2020]
lana del rey
In Stock
List Price: £16.99
Our Price: Rs.4245 Rs.3820
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.425
Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfast: Little Black Classics 119
[Paperback - 2016]
oscar wilde
Out of Stock
Availability in 2-4 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £3
Our Price: Rs.645 Rs.580
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.65
Conversations On Love
[Paperback - 2022]
natasha lunn
Out of Stock
Availability in 2-4 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2395 Rs.2155
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.240
Healing Through Words
[Hardback - 2022]
rupi kaur
In Stock
List Price: £16.99
Our Price: Rs.5045 Rs.4540
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.505
The Night Is Darkening Round Me: Little Black Classics 63
[Paperback - 2015]
emily bronte
Out of Stock
Availability in 2-4 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £3
Our Price: Rs.645 Rs.580
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.65