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American Stories: Contents
This year, we asked writers to submit "American Stories" for Flamingo Writers'
second edition. In view of the September 11 disaster, we are amazed at the strength and conviction these stoires show toward the pursuit of personal freedom.Written by young students, they show that in times of both internal and external strife, we are lovers of freedom. What is an American story? everyone asked. I suggested such a story would contain an American setting, or even a car trip. But that is not a
theme, they said. What is an American theme? What is an American character? they
asked. Who are we? I responded. I asked Fracis Homi Sohrab, an Indian American
writer whose interview appears in our writer in residence site, what an American story is.
He said In India, people know who they are and where they came from. "In America,
things are more mixed together. I think, in the case of America, the distinctive mark is
the matter of an identity, the search for identity. That's an American story." In the stories
below, characters are searching for an identity within an institution, be it a nursing home,
a college campus, a living room, or in the halls of a high school. They are screaming for
respect and recognition as individuals.
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