POW-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now
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Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed--with the assistance of Carla Blank--has assembled an anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience. Pow-Wow is the sequel to Reed's From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900 -2002 , a volume that included both Tupac Shakur and T. S. Eliot, and was named one of the best poetry anthologies of 2003 by Library Journal . Its fiction-focused follow-up once again demonstrates the broad range of American writing, from such stellar names as Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Alejandro Murgu?a to newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds. This landmark collection features: Zora Neale Hurston, Chester Himes, Robert Coover, Bharati Mukherjee, Benjamin Franklin, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ntozake Shange, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mark Twain, Grace Paley, Russell Charles Leong, Charles Wright, James Alan McPherson, and more.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1568583427
ISBN13:9781568583426
Release Date:January 2009
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:536 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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excellent selection of stories you won't find elsewhere
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I am still only about 1/3 through this collection of short strories. All have value, but two have knocked my sox off. The Guinea Pig Lady catches life in a backwater trailer park in NH, shades of Carolyn Chute, terrific story and character development. The best so far is Wormwood, a well told tale that takes you along one road of story telling, and then BOOM! This anthology was recommended to me by no one, but it showed up as a new volume in my little local library in Maine, I gambled, and it is a treasure. I sense that a lot of modern writing is cranked out under the umbrella of academia, and that the author is required to "earn his stripes" withing the ivied halls. Not these stories. Give it a look.
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