All About Skin Short Fiction by Women of Color Edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer Review

All about Skin: Brusk Fiction by Women of Color

University of Wisconsin Press, 2014
eISBN: 978-0-299-30193-4 | Paper: 978-0-299-30194-1
Library of Congress Classification PN6120.92.W65A45 2014
Dewey Decimal Nomenclature 823.01089287

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ABOUT THIS Book

All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Immature Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry anthologies. The prose in this multicultural anthology addresses such themes as racial prejudice, media portrayal of dazzler, and family unit relationships and spans genres from the comic and the surreal to startling realism. It demonstrates the power and range of some of the most exciting women writing short fiction today.
The stories are by American writers Aracelis González Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capó Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sáma, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese author Xu Xi.

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jina Ortiz is a author and poet whose works have appeared in many publications, including the Afro-Hispanic Review, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and New Millennium Writings. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she is an offshoot professor of English language at Quinsigamond Community College. Rochelle Spencer is a writer who has contributed to many publications, including Callaloo, African American Review, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, and Mosaic. She is completing a doctorate focusing on Afrofuturism and is on the Board of Directors for the Hurston-Wright Foundation.

REVIEWS

"All about Skin is electrifying and admittedly necessary. Within yous will find the true middle of a literature."—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"In that location is no other short story collection even similar to All virtually Skin; information technology takes an entirely dissimilar approach in that all of the contributors are literary-award-winning African, African American, Asian, Asian American, Native American, Latina, and Caribbean women writers."—Sandra Y. Govan, University of North Carolina–Charlotte

"All about Skin takes us to a higher place and below the skin of fascinating characters from the inner cities, immigrant enclaves, and academia of the United states, and from Africa to Asia, among many settings."—María Acosta Cruz, author of Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence

Tabular array OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Helena María Viramontes
Preface
Rochelle Spencer
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Function i Coming-of-Age
Aida
Patricia Engel
Fairness
Chinelo Okparanta
Pita Delicious
ZZ Packer
Candidate
Amina Gautier
How to Go out the Midwest
Renee Simms
The Perfect Discipline
Ramola D.
A Different Story
Ivelisse Rodriguez

Part 2 Reinvention
American Child
Manjula Menon
Arcadia
Hope Wabuke
Sirens
Joshunda Sanders
Just the Mode She Does the Things
Jennine Capó Crucet
The Great Pretenders
Ashley Immature
A Penny, a Pound
Princess Joy Fifty. Perry

Function iii Borderlands
The Accidents of a Veronica
Toni Margarita Plummer
The Rapture
Emily Raboteau
The Lost Ones
Aracelis González Asendorf
Noelia and Amparo
Glendaliz Camacho
A Strange People
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Lillian Is an Ordinary Child
Metta Sáma
Entropy 20:12
Learkana Chong
Beautiful Things
Jacqueline Bishop
Lady Chatterley's Mansion
Unoma Azuah
All about Skin
Xu Xi

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