Border Perspectives

Chapter 4:

Speaking of Borders: Storytelling and Identity

Telling Your Own Story

William Kittredge: Home [essay]

Marianne Boruch: The Quiet House [essay]

Gary Soto: Black Hair [essay]

Adrienne Rich: Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity [essay]

Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior [autobiography]

Ilan Stavans: Lost in Translation [essay]

Russell Banks: The Visitor [essay]

Judith Ortiz Cofer: Silent Dancing [essay]

Ivette Chavarria: Cooking Culture -- The Tamale [student essay]

Oral Stories, Written Fictions

Ralph Ellison, Flying Home [short story]

Leslie Marmon Silko: Yellow Woman [short story]

Storytelling

Sandra Cisneros: Woman Hollering Creek [short story]

Ron Carlson: Bigfoot Stole My Wife [short story]

Russell Leong: Geography One [short story]

Tomas Rivera: When We Arrive [short story]

Ntozake Shange: For Coloured Girls Who Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf [dramatic poem]

Reading Across Texts

Synthesis Assignments

Extending the Context

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This page was prepared by Audrey Mickahail at the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS), housed at Georgetown University, under the direction of Randy Bass, Department of English.


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