The Before Columbus Foundation fiction anthology : selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 / edited by Ishmael Reed, Kathryn Trueblood, and Shawn Wong.
Reed, Ishmael, 1938-; Trueblood, Kathryn.; Wong, Shawn, 1949-; Before Columbus Foundation.
1992
PS648.S5 B44 1992
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Title The Before Columbus Foundation fiction anthology : selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 / edited by Ishmael Reed, Kathryn Trueblood, and Shawn Wong.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780393308327 (paperback)
0393308324 (paperback)
9780393030556 (hardcover)
0393030555 (hardcover)
Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, ©1992.
Language English
Description xxvii, 676 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number PS648.S5 B44 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.0108054
Summary This anthology includes 30 selections from a decade of award-winning fiction. Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of "mainstream" American literature to reflect this country's multicultural, multi-ethnic richness and diversity. Since 1980 it has sponsored the American Book Awards.
For more than a decade, the Before Columbus Foundation has been giving annual book awards using a single criterion: no matter who wrote the book, it qualified as long as the judges considered it "an outstanding contribution to literature." The result has been an eclectic yet consistently meritorious selection, as this anthology of selections from prizewinners suggests. What a way to observe the Columbus quincentenary - not with one more cloned commemoration of "minority" literature or rear-guard defense of the European-American tradition, but with a collection whose authors (Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, Jessica Hagedorn, Salvatore La Puma, Leslie Silko, Milton Murayama, and more than 20 others) represent the true American mosaic. Included is a full list of American Book Award winners and their publications that will encourage readers to explore even further. From Library Journal. David Kirby, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee.
Added Author Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Trueblood, Kathryn.
Wong, Shawn, 1949-
Added Corporate Author Before Columbus Foundation.
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The ocean of American literature / Ishmael Reed
Chapters 7 and 8 from Fools crow / James Welch
Excerpt from Not by the sword / Nash Candelaria
North Albany : crucible for a childhood / William Kennedy
Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich
Lil' Yokohama / Toshio Mori
Swimming to the top of the rain / J. California Cooper
Gravesend Bay / Salvatore La Puma
I'll crack your head Kotsun / Milton Murayama
Chapter 14 from Lonely Crusade / Chester B. Himes
Epithalamium / Hisaye Yamamoto
Mulberry's notebook / Hualing Nieh
Excerpt from Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko
Chapters 1 and 2 from Praisesong for the widow / Paule Marshall
Chapter 1 from!Click song / John A. Williams
Immigration blues / Bienvenido N. Santos
Excerpt from Smiles on Washington Square (a love story of sorts) / Raymond Federman
The only real day / Frank Chin
Chapter 2 from 'Sippi / John Oliver Killens
Chapter 3 from The right thing to do / Josephine Gattuso Hendin
Recitatif / Toni Morrison
Chapter 5 from Traveling light / Lionel Mitchell
Chapters 1 and 2 from Mama / Terry McMillan
Excerpts from The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros
Excerpts from Pet food and tropical apparitions / Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Chapters 4, 5, and 6 from The underground woman / Kay Boyle
Excerpt from chapter 1, The book of Jamaica / Russell Banks
Chapter 10 from Days without weather / Cecil Brown
Excerpt from The ultraviolet sky / Alma Luz Villanueva
Excerpt from chapter 1, The salt eaters / Toni Cade Bambara
Excerpts from Griever : an American monkey king in China / Gerald Vizenor.

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