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• ISBN: 0826316867
• ISBN: 9780826316868
• Physical Description: ix, 350 p. ; 23 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1996.

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Indian preservation : teaching Black Elk speaks / G. Thomas Couser -- Beauty before me : notes on House made of dawn (N. Scott Momaday) / Helen Jaskoski -- Crying for vision in James Welch's Winter in the blood / William W. Thackeray -- Ceremony : from alienation to reciprocity (Leslie Marmon Silko) / Norma C. Wilson -- Building bridges : crossing the waters to a Love medicine (Louise Erdrich) / John Purdy -- Ethnic and gender identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Susan Meisenhelder -- Racial discourse and self-creation : Richard Wright's Black boy / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Measure him right : an analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the sun / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller -- Closer to the edge : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Linda Wagner-Martin -- A fairy-tale life : The making of Celie in Alice Walker's The color purple / Daniel W. Ross -- Learning to read (and/in) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Chicano theater reaches the professional stage : Luis Valdez's Zoot suit / Elizabeth Ramirez -- Entering The house on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) / Julian Olivares -- Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory and new perspectives on ethnic autobiography / Antonio C. Marquez -- Searching for the heart of America (Carlos Bulosan) / E. San Juan, Jr. -- Growing with stories : Chinese American identities, textual identities (Maxine Hong Kingston) / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Experiential approaches to teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan / Mitsuye Yamada -- Reading between the syllables : Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen syllables and other stories / Wendy Ho.

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American literature > Minority authors > Study and teaching.
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Cultural pluralism in literature > Study and teaching.
Literature and society > Study and teaching > United States.
Hispanic Americans in literature > Study and teaching.
African Americans in literature > Study and teaching.
Asian Americans in literature > Study and teaching.
Ethnic groups in literature > Study and teaching.
Minorities in literature > Study and teaching.
Ethnicity in literature > Study and teaching.
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