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- catalog abstract ""The essays featured in this volume are modern accounts of immigration. Such writers as Edwidge Danticat (The Farming of Bones), Lucy Grealy (Autobiography of a Face), Ginu Kamani (Junglee Girl), Nelly Rosario, and Veronica Chambers (Mama's Girl) are just a few of the first generation immigrant women who address such issues as identity, ethnicity, race, and how the self begins to take on and absorb the label "American."" "As this collection demonstrates, each experience is completely unique - one woman may have a sense of instant belonging while another may confront a feeling of alienation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11515029.
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The essays featured in this volume are modern accounts of immigration. Such writers as Edwidge Danticat (The Farming of Bones), Lucy Grealy (Autobiography of a Face), Ginu Kamani (Junglee Girl), Nelly Rosario, and Veronica Chambers (Mama's Girl) are just a few of the first generation immigrant women who address such issues as identity, ethnicity, race, and how the self begins to take on and absorb the label "American."" "As this collection demonstrates, each experience is completely unique - one woman may have a sense of instant belonging while another may confront a feeling of alienation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Doing archaeology in my America / Nina Barragan -- Turbulent times / Lilianet Brintrup -- Secret Latina at large / Veronica Chambers -- Rituals: a prayer, a candle, and a notebook / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Aha! / Edwidge Danticat -- Coming home / Gabrielle Donnelly -- Embracing the alien / Lynn Freed -- The remembering / Akuyoe Graham -- The country of childhood / Lucy Grealy -- A road still becoming / Suheir Hammad -- Code switching / Ginu Kamani -- My new world journey / Nola Kambanda -- Beyond boundaries / Helen Kim -- Disassembling Helie / Helie Lee -- Becoming midwestern / Kyoko Mori -- Recalling a child of October / Irina Reyn -- On becoming / Nelly Rosario -- Now is the time to try something- but have I got nine lives? / Ute Margaret Saine -- Whispered histories / Rosanne Katon-Walden -- Reluctant citizen / Annette Gallagher Weisman -- Unbecoming American / Mitsuye Yamada -- The language of dreams / Belle Yang -- All my relations / Joyce Zonana.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 236 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Becoming American.".
- catalog identifier "078686589X (hc)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Becoming American.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Hyperion,".
- catalog relation "Becoming American.".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.48/9691 21".
- catalog subject "Acculturation United States.".
- catalog subject "E184.A1 B288 2000".
- catalog subject "Women immigrants United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Doing archaeology in my America / Nina Barragan -- Turbulent times / Lilianet Brintrup -- Secret Latina at large / Veronica Chambers -- Rituals: a prayer, a candle, and a notebook / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Aha! / Edwidge Danticat -- Coming home / Gabrielle Donnelly -- Embracing the alien / Lynn Freed -- The remembering / Akuyoe Graham -- The country of childhood / Lucy Grealy -- A road still becoming / Suheir Hammad -- Code switching / Ginu Kamani -- My new world journey / Nola Kambanda -- Beyond boundaries / Helen Kim -- Disassembling Helie / Helie Lee -- Becoming midwestern / Kyoko Mori -- Recalling a child of October / Irina Reyn -- On becoming / Nelly Rosario -- Now is the time to try something- but have I got nine lives? / Ute Margaret Saine -- Whispered histories / Rosanne Katon-Walden -- Reluctant citizen / Annette Gallagher Weisman -- Unbecoming American / Mitsuye Yamada -- The language of dreams / Belle Yang -- All my relations / Joyce Zonana.".
- catalog title "Becoming American : personal essays by first generation immigrant women / edited and with an introduction by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".