"Almost Touching the Skies" offers an engaging, multicultural collection of fiction and memoir written between the 1870s and the 1990s. In the 1890s in New Orleans, the young heroine of a Kate Chopin story must choose between marriage to a handsome and wealthy suitor and a career as a concert pianist. Just after the turn of the century, in a dirt-poor black town in Florida, a spirited Zora Neale Hurston struggles to maintain her dreams after the death of her mother. In Depression-era Brooklyn, Edith Konecky's precociously witty character Allegra Maud Goldman contends with bourgeois Jewish parents who dote on her neurotic younger brother as they ignore or dismiss their daughter's yearnings. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, writing of her childhood in Malaysia, considers the mixed blessings bestowed on her by her schoolteacher nuns, while Marjorie Agosin, recalling her early years in Chile, pays tribute to the mysterious and fragrant world created by her family's cook, Carmencita. And Estella Conwill Majozo, calling up her memories of the "Little Africa" section of Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1950s, captures the moment she gets her first period during a stickball game with her five brothers, and is welcomed into womanhood by her family matriarchs.
"Almost Touching the Skies" includes work by: Marjorie Agosin, Flavia Alaya, Meena Alexander, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Bernikow, Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Jane Gould, Katharine Butler Hathaway Helen R. Hull, Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Summers Kelley, Edith K
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"Almost Touching the Skies" offers an engaging, multicultural collection of fiction and memoir written between the 1870s and the 1990s. In the 1890s in New Orleans, the young heroine of a Kate Chopin story must choose between marriage to a handsome and wealthy suitor and a career as a concert pianist. Just after the turn of the century, in a dirt-poor black town in Florida, a spirited Zora Neale Hurston struggles to maintain her dreams after the death of her mother. In Depression-era Brooklyn, Edith Konecky's precociously witty character Allegra Maud Goldman contends with bourgeois Jewish parents who dote on her neurotic younger brother as they ignore or dismiss their daughter's yearnings. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, writing of her childhood in Malaysia, considers the mixed blessings bestowed on her by her schoolteacher nuns, while Marjorie Agosin, recalling her early years in Chile, pays tribute to the mysterious and fragrant world created by her family's cook, Carmencita. And Estella Conwill Majozo, calling up her memories of the "Little Africa" section of Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1950s, captures the moment she gets her first period during a stickball game with her five brothers, and is welcomed into womanhood by her family matriarchs.
"Almost Touching the Skies" includes work by: Marjorie Agosin, Flavia Alaya, Meena Alexander, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Bernikow, Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Jane Gould, Katharine Butler Hathaway Helen R. Hull, Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Summers Kelley, Edith K
Imprint | Feminist Press at The City University of New York |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2001 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
First published | May 2000 |
Editors | Florence Howe, Jean Casella |
Authors | Jean Casella, Florence Howe |
Dimensions | 255 x 150 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 261 |
Edition | 1st ed., Special 30th anniversary commemorative ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-55861-234-1 |
Barcode | 9781558612341 |
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LSN | 1-55861-234-3 |