The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
2012-05-15
220 pages
5 x 8
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936214-71-6
Tara L. Masih, Writer & Editor
Award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call in 2007 for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of “culture, race, and a sense of place.” The prizewinners are gathered for the first time in a ground-breaking anthology that explores many facets of culture not previously found under one cover. The powerful, honest, thoughtful voices—Native American, African American, Asian, European, Jewish, White—speak daringly on topics not often discussed in the open, on subjects such as racism, anti-Semitism, war, self-identity, gender, societal expectations. Their words will entertain, illuminate, take you to distant lands, and spark important discussions about our humanity, our culture, and our place within society and the natural world.
- Winner of a 2012 Skipping Stones Honor Award
- A Featured NewPages.com New & Noteworthy Book, February 2012
- An Amazon Hot New Release, debuting at #2 on the essay bestseller list
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Tara L. Masih
- Introduction by David Mura
- THE CHALK CIRCLE: IDENTITY, HOME, AND BORDERLANDS
- If Grandmother Had Married a Peasant Li Miao Lovett
- Fragments: Finding Center Sarah J. Stoner
- Giiwe: go home Christine Stark
- AS I AM: LETTERS OF IDENTITY
- Bufferhood: An Autoethnography Emma Sartwell
- Valentine and This Difficult World Tilia Klebenov Jacobs
- THE TONGUE OF WAR: A CLASH OF CULTURES
- Reflecting on Dragons and Angels Shanti Elke Bannwart
- Tongue-Tied Kelly Hayes-Raitt
- Tightrope Across the Abyss Shanti Elke Bannwart
- THE TRAGEDY OF THE COLOR LINE
- A Dash of Pepper in the Snow Samuel Autman
- “Miss Otis Regrets” Mary Elizabeth Parker
- Signatures Lyzette Wanzer
- EYEWITNESS: AS SEEN BY ANOTHER
- Winter Seagull Toshi Washizu
- Itam Jeff Fearnside
- High Tech in Gaborone M. Garrett Bauman
- Triptych: Paradise Gretchen Brown Wright
- THE OTHER
- Assailing Otherness Katrina Grigg-Saito
- Fried Locusts Kamela Jordan
- Israel: Devour the Darling Plagues Bonnie J. Morris
- THE CULTURE OF SELF AND SPIRIT
- Connections Betty Jo Goddard
- Palo del Muerte Simmons B. Buntin
- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
- Intercultural Considerations
- Intercultural Connections
- Quotation Exploration
- About the Editor, Tara L. Masih
- Acknowledgments
- About the Introduction Author, David Mura
- Index of Contributors
