American identities
Subtitle: contemporary multicultural voices
By: edited by Robert Pack, Jay Parini.
Contributors: Pack, Robert, 1929-; Parini, Jay.
Publisher: Published by University Press of New England [for] Middlebury College Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors; Ethnic groups -- United States -- Literary collections; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Literary collections; Minorities -- United States -- Literary collections; American literature -- 20th century
Description: Contemporary commentators have observed that postmodern America is less a melting pot than a buffet table. In American Identities people of diverse ethnic, religious, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds "refuse to merge but insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities," editors Robert Pack and Jay Parini explain.

This sixth volume in the popular Bread Loaf Anthology series gathers more than three dozen voices who testify that there is no single American Experience, but instead a multiplicity of experiences. These poems, stories, and essays describe in occasionally stark, sometimes humorous, and often moving terms what it means to be black and American, or gay and American, or Latino and American, or Jewish and American within this society.
Notes: "A Bread Loaf anthology"--P. [ii].