Waking Up American Coming of Age Biculturally

Waking Up American explores the common thread of experience that first-generation women share-feeling caught between two worlds and the sense of being "other."

Angela Jane Fountas is a writer and editor living in Seattle. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama in 2001 and has been teaching since 1997. Her fiction has recently appeared in Diagram, Pindeldyboz, and Syntax. Her story "Lydia" was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize. She is working on a short story collection.

Introduction

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Raising the Mango

1

(10)

Angela M. Balcita

Urdu, My Love Song

11

(10)

Rasma Haidri

Hello Kitty Packs Heat

21

(10)

Tina Lee

Palindrome

31

(18)

Lisa Swanstrom

Blending the Red with the White and the Blue

49

(4)

Margaret Gelbwasser

Caught between Worlds: A Pakistani-Muslim Adolescence in America

53

(10)

Maliha Masood

(Un)American

63

(12)

Patricia Justine Tumang

My Father's Mother Tongue

75

(12)

Angela Jane Fountas

Lone Stars

87

(10)

Lan Tran

Saying Something in African

97

(10)

Emiene Shija Wright

A Lesson in Posture

107

(12)

Jenesha de Rivera

Under the Mandap

119

(12)

Sona Pai

Fooling Mexicans

131

(10)

Maria Elena Fernandez

Rising and Falling

141

(6)

Anne Liu Kellor

The Art of Making Hot Tea

147

(8)

Jenny R. Sadre-Orafai

Up the Mountain from Petionville: A Conversation between Two Haitian American Queer Women

155

(18)

Amy Andre

Marlene Barberousse-Nikolin

Sex in Translation

173

(12)

Laura Fokkena

The Latina in Me

185

(12)

Rosie Molinary

Kimiko

197

(10)

Melissa Secola

The Hyphenated American: On Checking ``Other''

207

(8)

Monica Villavicencio

Back in the U.S.S.R.

215

Victoria Gomelsky

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Waking Up American Coming of Age Biculturally

Summary

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