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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. 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 -- R

Who reads Becoming American : Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women?

Author

and with an introduction by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Publisher

New York: Hyperion

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786865895

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Biography

Rating

3.67 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14