All About Skin - 9780299301941

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.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: All About Skin
• Sottotitolo: Short Fiction by Women of Color
• Lingua: English
• Autori :  Ortiz Jina (EDT) Spencer Rochelle (EDT) Viramontes Helena Maria (FRW)
• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Collana: Univ of Wisconsin Pr (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 11 Novembre '14
• Genere: FICTION
• Argomenti :  Short stories Literature Women authors Literature Minority authors
• Pagine: 296
• Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 0
• EAN-13: 9780299301941