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A01=Ana Castillo
A01=Anne Calcagno
A01=Dhana-Marie Branton
A01=Maxine Chernoff
A01=Samira Ahmed
A01=Shelly M. Conner
A01=Stuart Dybek
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Author_Ana Castillo
Author_Anne Calcagno
Author_Dhana-Marie Branton
Author_Maxine Chernoff
Author_Samira Ahmed
Author_Shelly M. Conner
Author_Stuart Dybek
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B01=David Schaafsma
B01=Lauren DeJulio Bell
B01=Roxanne Pilat
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Growing Up Chicago

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? 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. See more
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20-50A01=Ana CastilloA01=Anne CalcagnoA01=Dhana-Marie BrantonA01=Maxine ChernoffA01=Samira AhmedA01=Shelly M. ConnerA01=Stuart DybekAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Ana CastilloAuthor_Anne CalcagnoAuthor_Dhana-Marie BrantonAuthor_Maxine ChernoffAuthor_Samira AhmedAuthor_Shelly M. ConnerAuthor_Stuart Dybekautomatic-updateB01=David SchaafsmaB01=Lauren DeJulio BellB01=Roxanne PilatCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=BGCategory=DNFCategory=HBJCOP=United StatesDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€20 to €50PS=Activesoftlaunch
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Product Details
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780810143685

About Ana CastilloAnne CalcagnoDhana-Marie BrantonMaxine ChernoffSamira AhmedShelly M. ConnerStuart Dybek

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.

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