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The Resource All about skin : short fiction by women of color, edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer

All about skin : short fiction by women of color, edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer

Label
All about skin : short fiction by women of color
Title
All about skin
Title remainder
short fiction by women of color
Statement of responsibility
edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
All About Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors ... The prose in this multicultural anthology addresses such themes as racial prejudice, media portrayal of beauty, and family relationships and spans genres from the comic and the surreal to startling realism. It demonstrates the power and range of some of the most exciting women writing short fiction today
Cataloging source
WU/DLC
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Ortiz, Jina
  • Spencer, Rochelle
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Short stories
  • Literature
  • Literature
  • Minority women
  • Nouvelles
  • Écrits de femmes
  • Littérature
  • Femmes issues des minorités
  • Literature
  • Literature
  • Minority women
  • short stories
  • Short stories
  • Minderheitenliteratur
  • Frau
  • Frauenprosa
  • Kurzgeschichte
Label
All about skin : short fiction by women of color, edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part 1. Coming-of-age. Aida / Patricia Engel -- Fairness / Chinelo Okparanta -- Pita delicious / ZZ Packer -- Candidate / Amina Gautier -- How to leave the midwest / Renee Simms -- The perfect subject / Ramola D. -- A different story / Ivelisse Rodriguez -- Part 2. Reinvention. American child / Manjula Menon -- Arcadia / Hope Wabuke -- Sirens / Joshunda Sanders -- Just the way she does the things / Jennine Capo Crucet -- The great pretenders / Ashley Young -- A penny, a pound / Princess Joy L. Perry -- Part 3. Borderlands. The accidents of a Veronica / Toni Margarita Plummer -- The rapture / Emily Raboteau -- The lost ones / Aracelis Gonzalez Asendorf -- Noelia and Amparo / Glendaliz Camacho -- A strange people / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan -- Lillian is an ordinary child / Metta Sama -- Entropy 20:12 / Learkana Chong -- Beautiful things / Jacqueline Bishop -- Lady Chatterley's mansion / Unoma Azuah -- All about skin / Xu Xi
Control code
874901721
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xx, 296 pages
Isbn
9780299301941
Lccn
2014007452
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
System control number
(OCoLC)874901721
Label
All about skin : short fiction by women of color, edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part 1. Coming-of-age. Aida / Patricia Engel -- Fairness / Chinelo Okparanta -- Pita delicious / ZZ Packer -- Candidate / Amina Gautier -- How to leave the midwest / Renee Simms -- The perfect subject / Ramola D. -- A different story / Ivelisse Rodriguez -- Part 2. Reinvention. American child / Manjula Menon -- Arcadia / Hope Wabuke -- Sirens / Joshunda Sanders -- Just the way she does the things / Jennine Capo Crucet -- The great pretenders / Ashley Young -- A penny, a pound / Princess Joy L. Perry -- Part 3. Borderlands. The accidents of a Veronica / Toni Margarita Plummer -- The rapture / Emily Raboteau -- The lost ones / Aracelis Gonzalez Asendorf -- Noelia and Amparo / Glendaliz Camacho -- A strange people / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan -- Lillian is an ordinary child / Metta Sama -- Entropy 20:12 / Learkana Chong -- Beautiful things / Jacqueline Bishop -- Lady Chatterley's mansion / Unoma Azuah -- All about skin / Xu Xi
Control code
874901721
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
xx, 296 pages
Isbn
9780299301941
Lccn
2014007452
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
System control number
(OCoLC)874901721

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