Stories in the stepmother tongue
By: edited by Josip Novakovich & Robert Shapard.
Contributors: Novakovich, Josip, 1956-; Shapard, Robert, 1942-
Publisher: White Pine Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Short stories, American -- Minority authors.; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.; American fiction -- 20th century.; Minorities -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "These stories were written in English by writers who emigrated to the United States. Why do these writers choose to express themselves in a language other than their native tongue? There are as many reasons as there are writers. When writing is a major part of life, coming to a new country and learning to write in its language is, for many writers, necessary to feeling at home in the world in which they now live."--BOOK JACKET.