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Growing Up Chicago
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Overview
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers who spent their formative years in the region to ask: What characterizes a Chicago author? Is it a certain feel to the writer’s language? A narrative sensibility? The mention of certain neighborhoods or locales? Contributors to the volume include renowned writers Ana Castillo, Stuart Dybek, Emil Ferris, Charles Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Erika L. Sánchez, and George Saunders, as well as emerging talents. While the authors represented here write from distinct local experiences, some universals emerge, including the abiding influence of family and friends and the self-realizations earned against the background of a place sparkling with promise and riven by inequality, a place in constant flux. The stories evoke childhood trips to the Art Institute of Chicago, nighttime games of ringolevio, and the giant neon Magikist lips that once perched over the expressway, sharing perspectives that range from a young man who dreams of becoming an artist to a single mother revisiting her Mexican roots, from a woman’s experience with sexual assault to a child’s foray into white supremacy. This book memorably explores culture, social identity, and personal growth through the eyes of Chicagoans, affirming that we each hold the ability to shape the places in which we live and write and read as much as those places shape us.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780810143685 |
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Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
Publication date: | 05/15/2022 |
Series: | Second to None: Chicago Stories |
Pages: | 280 |
Sales rank: | 661,713 |
Product dimensions: | 8.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
DAVID SCHAAFSMA is a professor of English and director of the Program in English Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author of several books on teaching and learning in high school and college English classrooms, he is the editor of Jane Addams in the Classroom and coeditor of Literacy and Democracy: Composition Studies and Literacy in Pursuit of Habitable Spaces; Further Conversations from the Students of Jay Robinson.ROXANNE PILAT holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MA in writing from DePaul University. Previously a secondary school instructor, journalist, and corporate communications consultant, she teaches at North Central College and Dominican University. Her work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Hummingbird Review, Windows, and in the anthology Italian Women in Chicago: Madonna mia! QUI debbo vivere? She is a founding editor of the literary journal Packingtown Review.LAUREN DEJULIO BELL teaches in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She previously taught in the UIC English Department and the Chicago Public Schools district. She serves on the associate board of StoryStudio Chicago and leads a local project (We Are All Chicago), where she engages with the people of Chicago to foster civic engagement, community writing, and artistic endeavors. A paper she coauthored, “Turning Schools Inside Out: Connecting Schools and Communities through Public Arts and Literacies,” was published in the Journal of Language and Literacy Education.
Table of Contents
Foreword Luis Alberto Urrea Introduction Roxanne Pilat, David Schaafsma, Lauren DeJulio Bell 1. Chicago Daiva Markelis 2. Between Boys Anne Calcagno 3. Running Girl Nnedi Okorafor 4. Vigil Stuart Dybek 5. All-American Boy David Mura 6. Excerpt from Love, Hate and Other Filters Samira Ahmed 7. Planet Rock Dhana-Marie Branton 8. White Power Christian Picciolini 9. Dillinger Jessie Ann Foley 10. Mothman Emil Ferris 11. Excerpt from I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika Sánchez 12. Detention James McManus 13. The Untouchables Maxine Chernoff 14. Discovering My Femininity in Menswear M Shelly Conner 15. Death of a Right Fielder Stuart Dybek 16. My Mother’s Mexico Ana Castillo 17. My Father’s Pillowtalk Charles Johnson 18. The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements Rebecca Makkai 19. Grave News Saja Elshareif 20. During the Reign of Vytautis the Great” Daiva Markelis 21. Children of the Fifty-Sixers: Growing Up in Hungarian Chicago” Rebecca Makkai 22. Growing Up in Chicago Tony Romano 23. The View From the South Side, 1970 George Saunders Biographies Acknowledgments CreditsFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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