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[Review Of] Stevenj. Gold. Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study, Janet E. Benson Jan 1993

[Review Of] Stevenj. Gold. Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study, Janet E. Benson

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This fascinating and insightful book is a comparative ethnographic study of Vietnamese and Soviet Jewish refugees. While a voluminous refugee and immigrant literature exists, much research follows a narrow, policy-driven focus rather than an independent academic tradition. Authors also tend to concentrate on specific ethnic groups rather than examining parallels or contrasts between groups. Gold, however, asks the broader question of how refugees create ethnic communities which facilitate "accomodation [accommodation] without assimilation" (Gibson 1988). In the process of comparison, he produces novel conclusions as well as hypotheses for further testing.

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[Review Of] John D. Buenker And Lorman A. Ratner, Eds. Multiculturalism In The United States: A Comparative Guide To Acculturation And Ethnicity, Harriet Ottenheimer Jan 1993

[Review Of] John D. Buenker And Lorman A. Ratner, Eds. Multiculturalism In The United States: A Comparative Guide To Acculturation And Ethnicity, Harriet Ottenheimer

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The comparative nature of this book is its most outstanding feature. The editors and authors have all worked to make their approaches to the question of acculturation and ethnicity as comparable as possible across chapters -- and across ethnic groups. The overall framework stresses the differing stresses that individuals in each ethnic group have had to struggle with in their quest to "become American.” It also emphasizes the importance of recognizing that no group is monolithic in its responses to acculturative pressures, that there is always a range of individual paths which might be chosen.

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[Review Of] Hsiang-Shui Chen. Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants In Contemporary New York, Janet E. Benson Jan 1993

[Review Of] Hsiang-Shui Chen. Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants In Contemporary New York, Janet E. Benson

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This book is a recent addition to the Anthropology of Contemporary Issues series edited by Roger Sanjek. The author, now an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, worked as a research assistant on Sanjek's New Immigrants and Old Americans Project in Elmhurst-Corona during the mid-1980s. This was the pilot study for what later became the Ford Foundation's Changing Relations Project, a national study of the impact of post-1965 immigration on American society. Chen, a graduate student from Taiwan himself, noticed a sudden increase in Chinese immigration to New York City after 1982. He chose …

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[Review Of] Lois Elhert And Amy Prince, Trans. Moon Rope (Un Lazo A La Luna), Laurie Lisa Jan 1993

[Review Of] Lois Elhert And Amy Prince, Trans. Moon Rope (Un Lazo A La Luna), Laurie Lisa

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In this children's explanatory tale, Fox persuades Mole to go to the moon on a braided grass rope. After Mole slips from the rope and is carried to earth on the back of a bird, he digs a tunnel, which explains why Mole chooses a nocturnal existence. The simplicity of the story, with its trickster characteristics of Fox, belies the actual experience of reading this visually stunning, bilingual, timeless tale.

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[Review Of] Carlos Fuentes. The Buried Mirror: Reflections On Spain And The New World, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1993

[Review Of] Carlos Fuentes. The Buried Mirror: Reflections On Spain And The New World, Cortland P. Auser

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The marvelous narrative ability of Carlos Fuentes has already been discovered by the many readers of his fiction. They will find here how well he has turned his remarkable talents to the writing of history.

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[Review Of] Donald W. Jackson. Even The Children Of Strangers: Equality Under The U.S. Constitution, Jennifer L. Dobson Jan 1993

[Review Of] Donald W. Jackson. Even The Children Of Strangers: Equality Under The U.S. Constitution, Jennifer L. Dobson

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Can "separate but equal" really be equal? How do we achieve equality through remedial preferential treatment? Does America's "meritocracy" dictate inequality? These compelling questions are addressed in Donald Jackson's Even Children of Strangers: Equality Under the U.S. Constitution.

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[Review Of] James Mooney. The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1993

[Review Of] James Mooney. The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, David M. Gradwohl

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On December 29, 1890, at the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, there occurred one of the most bloody and tragic events in American history -- the massacre of hundreds of American Indians by the US Seventh Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek. A principal factor precipitating this atrocity was the American government's misperception of the so-called Ghost Dance which had spread from the Great Basin and Plateau into the Great Plains. Just a week before the massacre, James Mooney (then a young employee of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology) had headed west to study the Ghost Dance phenomenon. …

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[Review Of] May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, And Dagmar Schultz, Eds. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, George H. Junne Jr. Jan 1993

[Review Of] May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, And Dagmar Schultz, Eds. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, George H. Junne Jr.

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African people have been a presence in Europe for thousands of years. As the author notes, "Julius Caesar brought Black legions to Germany, and many never returned." A significant percentage lived in Germany until the sixteenth century. In more recent decades, French African troops and African American troops were in Germany during World War l. Some left children there and a handful even stayed to live. In World War II African American soldiers fought there again. Some remained for the occupation and some retired there. Again, some came home leaving their children, who, according to various articles, were believed to …

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[Review Of] Joseph J. Tobin, Ed. Re-Made In Japan: Everyday Life And Consumer Taste In A Changing Society, Kumiko Takahara Jan 1993

[Review Of] Joseph J. Tobin, Ed. Re-Made In Japan: Everyday Life And Consumer Taste In A Changing Society, Kumiko Takahara

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The introduction's title to Re-made in Japan, "Domesticating the West," captures precisely the characteristics of the contemporary westernization of Japanese culture. The book is a collection of twelve papers which were originally presented at the American Anthropological Association meeting in 1986 at the University of Hawaii. Japan's economic success has global receptions, ranging from admiration and envy, to resentment. Yet the role of Japan as an avid importer and consumer of western products and ideas is not appreciated. On the contrary, quick adaptation of the Japanese to western culture arouses curiosity, wonder, and even mockery from Eurocentric perspectives. The contributed …

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[Review Of] Virgil Suarez. Welcome To The Oasis And Other Stories, Frances Hernandez Jan 1993

[Review Of] Virgil Suarez. Welcome To The Oasis And Other Stories, Frances Hernandez

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If one is seeking a text to help expand the multicultural approach in a course on contemporary fiction or literature in general, a new collection of short stories by Virgil Suarez may be a successful addition. Welcome to the Oasis and Other Stories has the virtues of compactness in 124 pages and of variety in the length of the six works included, as well as a reasonable cost. An instructor would have the option of including the entire volume in her syllabus, which would provide an assignment easily encompassed in one or two class meetings. Or she could tuck in …

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[Review Of] Maika Drucker. Grandma's Latkes, Laurie Lisa Jan 1993

[Review Of] Maika Drucker. Grandma's Latkes, Laurie Lisa

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Grandma's Latkes, written by MaIka Drucker (who wrote the acclaimed Jewish Holiday Series published by Holiday House) and illustrated by Eve Chwast, accomplishes three things simultaneously: it is an instructional story on the preparation of latkes, it retells the story of the origin of Hanukkah, and it is an endearing story of the passing down of a tradition from one generation to another. The book works successfully on all three levels, and children from the ages of six to ten will be able to understand and appreciate its rich multiplicity.

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[Review Of] Alejandro Portes And Ruben G. Rumbaut. Immigrant America: A Portrait, Janet E. Benson Jan 1993

[Review Of] Alejandro Portes And Ruben G. Rumbaut. Immigrant America: A Portrait, Janet E. Benson

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The subtitle of this book is apt. Its authors paint a rich and varied portrait of recent and turn-of-the-century immigrants to America: Vietnamese and Cuban refugees, Mexican, Chinese, Polish and Irish laborers, Indian professionals, Korean entrepreneurs. Unlike many works which focus on a particular nationality or type of immigrant, Portes and Rumbaut attempt a broad comparative sketch. The result is an enlightening synthesis of a very large literature. The authors discuss origins -- who the immigrants are and why they come; the context of exit, or conditions under which people leave home; issues of adaptation (economic, social, and psychological); and …

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[Review Of] Sherley Anne Williams. Working Cotton, Laurie Lisa Jan 1993

[Review Of] Sherley Anne Williams. Working Cotton, Laurie Lisa

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Working Cotton is based on poems from Williams's The Peacock Poems, a National Book Award nominee. Based on her childhood experience in the cotton fields of Fresno, this poignant story tells of a migrant family's day from the point of view of a child, Shelan, who is "a big girl now. Not big enough to have my own sack, just only to help pile cotton in the middle of the row for Mamma to put in hers.” From dawn until dusk, the family works the field.

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Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas Jan 1993

Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas

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[Review Of] Raymond 1. Demallie And Douglas R. Parks. Eds. Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition And Innovation, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1992

[Review Of] Raymond 1. Demallie And Douglas R. Parks. Eds. Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition And Innovation, David M. Gradwohl

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Most of the papers included in this anthology were presented in Bismarck in 1982 at a conference entitled "American Indian Religion in the Dakotas: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives." The conference was funded by the North Dakota Humanities Council and brought together a wide array of academicians and lay people representing different and sometimes conflicting experiential and philosophical points of view.

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[Review Of] Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories, Cortland P. Auser

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This collection reveals Cisneros as a refreshing writer of a variety of fictional forms. Her work at times may remind readers of Chicana short fiction by Estella Portillo. Cisneros has the distinct ability of writing vividly and imaginatively in her pictorialization of Mexican American life. She creates sketches, short stories, vignettes, and descriptive "essays."

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[Review Of] Elias Miguel Munoz. Crazy Love, Phillipa Kafka Jan 1992

[Review Of] Elias Miguel Munoz. Crazy Love, Phillipa Kafka

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In a supposed "interview" with Rolling Stone, Muñoz's major character, lead singer-composer Julian Toledo of Julian and the L.A. Scene, sums up Paul Simon's song "Crazy Love" as "about the love of music, about relationships ... about family." Indeed, this book takes the form of a song in which the author is simultaneously the composer and conductor orchestrating the three elements of music, relationship, and family harmonically into the text through the deployment of a dazzling grab bag of modem and postmodern authorial techniques. These include mock-ups of interviews (written) and in video format; songs seemingly printed as appendices to …

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[Review Of] A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff And Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Eds. Redefining American Literary History, Hartwig Isernhagen Jan 1992

[Review Of] A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff And Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Eds. Redefining American Literary History, Hartwig Isernhagen

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The collection by Ruoff and Ward stands within the canon discussion in American literary history, which it briefly recapitulates, placing itself in the multiculturalist camp. The first section of the four-part book can perhaps be called programmatic in just this sense: It points out how much has been overlooked among writings produced in America, and it tries to develop rationales according to which such exclusion might be rectified. Much space is here taken up by questions that concern the material and practical side of research and teaching: anthologies, MLA sessions, and the like. Much is program rather than execution, and …

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[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman: Problems. Protests. Lifestyle, Ann Rayson Jan 1992

[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman: Problems. Protests. Lifestyle, Ann Rayson

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The original edition of The Ethnic American Woman was published in 1978 with 381 pages. For the 1989 edition, the author has added two new sections with a total of ninety-three new pages. "Unit Thirteen: Daring To Be Different" contains sixty-three pages of fiction, poetry, and memoirs from contemporary women writers of German, Russian, Jewish, Anglo, African American, Mennonite, Italian, Chicana, Rumanian, Polish and Irish backgrounds. "Unit Fourteen: Scholarly Essays" is a particularly welcome addition of thirty pages containing essays by Evelyn Avery on blacks and Jews in the fiction of ethnic women, Caroline Dillman on the Southern woman as …

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[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of White America, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1992

[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of White America, Phillips G. Davies

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Believing that a relatively small amount of research has been done with the ethnic identity of white Americans, Alba surveyed 524 whites in the Albany, New York, area. The majority were English, French, German, and Scottish whose forebears had been in this country for several generations. There were also numerous Irish, and among later immigrants, fairly large numbers of Italian and Polish descent.

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[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko. Almanac Of The Dead, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko. Almanac Of The Dead, Cortland P. Auser

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For Leslie Marmon Silko aficionados, the "novel" may surprise them. Highly successful as a short story writer and the creator of the unusually spiritual novel Ceremony, Silko writes a tome, Dickensian in length and in the number of its dramatis personae.

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[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide To Research, Cynthia R. Kasee Jan 1992

[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide To Research, Cynthia R. Kasee

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This much needed resource is an annotated bibliography of nearly sixteen hundred works in print and on film or video. As the authors note in the "Introduction," the common fallacy is that there is little available research -- either of historic or contemporary focus -- on the topic of Native American women. This is clearly not true, as evidenced by the wealth of materials detailed in this guide.

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[Review Of] E. Ellis Cashmore. Ed. Dictionary Of Race And Ethnic Relations. 2nd Ed., Alberto Pulido Jan 1992

[Review Of] E. Ellis Cashmore. Ed. Dictionary Of Race And Ethnic Relations. 2nd Ed., Alberto Pulido

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A recurrent theme in the sociological study of racial and ethnic relations is the discipline's inability to provide a clear and focused research agenda. Scholars in the field are troubled by their inability to agree as to the nature and scope of the discipline, and hence, the lack of an all-encompassing definition for the study of racial and ethnic relations. For example, a continual semantic debate exists over the appropriate usage and application of such concepts as "race" versus "racial" in sociological discourse. The Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations has been developed with this concern in mind.

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[Review Of] Nicolas Kanellos And Jorge A. Huerta, Eds. Nuevos Pasos: Chicano And Puerto Rican Drama, Phillipa Kafka Jan 1992

[Review Of] Nicolas Kanellos And Jorge A. Huerta, Eds. Nuevos Pasos: Chicano And Puerto Rican Drama, Phillipa Kafka

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The major weakness of this text is that it is a reprint of a 1979 special edition of Revista Chicano-Riqueña. Unfortunately, both the overall introduction (a history of Spanish American, Chicano, and New York Puerto Rican theater), as well as introductions to each play (which contain biographical data, analysis, and practical suggestions for staging) does not extend beyond 1979. Also, although most illustrations are excellent, the pictorial centerfold is a crowded and confusing collage.

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[Review Of] Roy Harvey Pearce. Savagism And Civilization: A Study Of The Indian And The American Mind. Rev. Ed. Of The Savages Of America, D. C. Cole Jan 1992

[Review Of] Roy Harvey Pearce. Savagism And Civilization: A Study Of The Indian And The American Mind. Rev. Ed. Of The Savages Of America, D. C. Cole

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This classic volume on the image of the Indian in the American mind first appeared in 1953. Although both limited and incomplete, Pearce's work compelled a virtual revolution in literary and historical approaches to analysis of public view concerning the role of Indians in the American past.

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[Review Of] Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1992

[Review Of] Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood, Angelo Costanzo

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This is a rather loose collection of cuentos, or stories, by a person of two very different worlds. In the years of her youth, Judith Ortiz was shuttled between Paterson, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico. Her parents were immersed in the Spanish culture of the Caribbean tropics; but like so many other Puerto Ricans, her father left the island in the 1950s to secure a better life for his family. He joined the US Navy and spent six months of every year at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the rest of the time at sea. When he was stationed in …

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[Review Of] Laura Coltelli. Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Hartwig Isernhagen Jan 1992

[Review Of] Laura Coltelli. Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Hartwig Isernhagen

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Among the interviews in this volume, which were conducted in September 1985, some are quite important, all of them are extremely interesting, and together they form an aggregate that cannot be ignored by anyone currently working in the field, for collectively they raise a number of issues that are central to current discussions of (specifically) American Indian and (generally) "minority" literatures.

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[Review Of] Ruth Pelz. Black Heroes Of The Wild West, George H. Junne Jr Jan 1992

[Review Of] Ruth Pelz. Black Heroes Of The Wild West, George H. Junne Jr

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Ruth Pelz's book, illustrated by Leandro DelIa Piana, is written for elementary school children. Among the nine black heroes and heroines profiled are three women. They include the rough and tough "Stagecoach Mary Fields, the brave Biddy Mason, and the hard working Clara Brown." The men are the early explorer, Estevan; Chicago founder Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable; one of Washington State's founders, George Washington Bush; and mountain man James Beckwourth. Businessman and government leader Mifflin Gibbs and rodeo star Bill Pickett round out those featured. Some are more well-known than others, but all were important figures in the West.

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[Review Of] Choong Soon Kim. Faithful Endurance: An Ethnography Of Korean Family Dispersal, Jim Schnell Jan 1992

[Review Of] Choong Soon Kim. Faithful Endurance: An Ethnography Of Korean Family Dispersal, Jim Schnell

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Kim's book evidences his ability to present well substantiated data using a storytelling perspective. His work is well grounded. Thirty-six pages (one fifth of the book) provide notes and bibliographic information. However, the reading is light. It is as if through his research he has prepared a fairly complex cross-cultural perspective ready for easy consumption. Again, he provides "an interpretation," but I would not call it an academic interpretation. His strength (personal familiarity with the culture being studied) is also a weakness (a predisposed bias).

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[Review Of] Susheila Nasta, Ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing From Africa, The Caribbean And South Asia, Opal Palmer Adisa Jan 1992

[Review Of] Susheila Nasta, Ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing From Africa, The Caribbean And South Asia, Opal Palmer Adisa

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In recent years writings by black women outside of the US have gained acceptance, and many such works have been included in syllabi. Motherlands provides critical, comparative analyses of several important black women (Asian women are included in this category) writing throughout the world, and as such, sets a precedent as it is probably the first such collection. Divided into three sections, Mothers/Daughters/Mother(land), the essays examine writers who have become icons, Bessie Head, Jean Rhys, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Nawal el Sa' adawi, Michelle Cliff, Joan Riley, Lorna Goodison, and Nayantara Sahgal. Some of the essays, however, explore use of …

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