Title:
All about skin : short fiction by women of color
Author:
Ortiz, Jina, editor.
Publication Information:
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
©2014
Physical Description:
xx, 296 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
All About Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors ... 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.
Language:
English
Contents:
Coming-of-age. Aida / Fairness / Pita delicious / Candidate / How to leave the Midwest / Perfect subject / A different story / Reinvention. American child / Arcadia / Sirens / Just the way she does the things / Great pretenders / A penny, a pound / Borderlands. Accidents of a Veronica / Rapture / Lost ones / Noelia and Amparo / A strange people / Lillian is an ordinary child / Entropy 20:12 / Beautiful things / Lady Chatterley's mansion / All about skin
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780299301941
Format :
Book
