In this Book
- All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry anthologies. 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.
The stories are by American writers Aracelis González Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capó Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sáma, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese writer Xu Xi.
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The stories are by American writers Aracelis González Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capó Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sáma, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese writer Xu Xi.
Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xx
- Introduction
- pp. 3-8
- Part 1. Coming-of-Age
- Pita Delicious
- pp. 40-44
- How to Leave the Midwest
- pp. 57-63
- The Perfect Subject
- pp. 64-81
- A Different Story
- pp. 82-98
- Part 2. Reinvention
- American Child
- pp. 101-121
- Just the Way She Does the Things
- pp. 145-160
- The Great Pretenders
- pp. 161-170
- A Penny, a Pound
- pp. 171-186
- Part 3. Borderlands
- The Accidents of a Veronica
- pp. 189-195
- The Rapture
- pp. 196-209
- The Lost Ones
- pp. 210-221
- Noelia and Amparo
- pp. 222-231
- A Strange People
- pp. 232-243
- Lillian Is an Ordinary Child
- pp. 244-250
- Entropy 20:12
- pp. 251-257
- Beautiful Things
- pp. 258-272
- Lady Chatterley’s Mansion
- pp. 273-278
- All about Skin
- pp. 279-288
- Contributors
- pp. 289-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299301934
Related ISBN(s)
9780299301941
MARC Record
OCLC
893090120
Pages
316
Launched on MUSE
2014-12-10
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014