multicultural/ethnic/immigrant short stories

[hideyho]

Hello
Does anyone know of classic (or the ones that get great literary buzz) American short stories from a multicultural/ethnic/immigrant perspective?

I have some authors: Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, but I'm kinda just beginning. I'd like to compile a well rounded list with the most influential authors/stories. Thanks!

[waryan]

You have a great list of names to start with- I would also recommend Gish Jen, she is contemporary and fun to read, she deadls with Chinese and Irish heritage as her husband is Irish and she is a Chinese-American. I think I've read a collection entitled "Who's Irish?" that was good.

[armenian]

William Saroyan!

[Virgil]

Tillie Olsen

[JBI]

Edit - misread, and didn't realize it was limited to American shorts.

Try some of the Yiddish writers working around New York.

[Amylian]

Well check these authors out : Zitkala Sa ((Impressionts of an indian childhood)); Gloria Anzaldua ((How to tame a wild tongue)); Leslie Silko ((Lullaby)); Julia Alvarez ((The Mother)); N. Scott Momaday ((The Way to the Rainy Mountain)).

Well, I studied American Multicultural Literature last simester and the authors I mentioned above all deals with ethncity and immigration. Try to check them out.

[Amylian]

Well, again, I think this site might be useful; I just got it from the norton anthology online while searching...

http://www.learner.org/amerpass/index.html

[kratsayra]

Sandra Cisneros

Also there is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She is Nigerian, but she has some short stories set in the US (about Nigerians living in the US) and she has gotten a lot of buzz recently. Here is website that has a complete list of all of her works (under bibliography), including short stories: http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/ - One story that I know for sure is set in the US is "On Monday Last Week," but I'm pretty sure some others are too - many of them seem to have "america" in the title, but who knows.

[aeroport]

The majority of Philip Roth's works are about second-generation Jewish-Americans. You might try the stories in Goodbye, Columbus, such as 'Defender of the Faith'.

Also, Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Lullaby'