Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience

by George B. Perkins

Book Overview

This innovative multicultural reader gathers together diaries, histories, autobiographies, short stories, and excerpts from novels to bring the many facets of the American experience to life, from sixteenth-century explorations to this century's ongoing saga of immigration and acculturation. Extending the traditional boundaries of the American literary canon, the editors first offer a comprehensive overview of the history of multicultural social and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195072227
• ISBN13: 9780195072228
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful resource, from classic to the present.

This is an excellent book for multicultural studies of American fiction and good for reading pleasure or educational uses. The writers included are of the best calibre and the stories varied in tone, humor and drama, tragedy and laughter. Daniela Gioseffi's story Rosa in Television Land is absolutely superb and entertaining. Excellent! I love Nathaniel Hawthorne's little known story, The Maypole of Marymount. Well done. Great anthology.