The Big Aiiieeeee! (9780452010765)

An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature
 
When the first volume of this collection of Asian American literature appeared in 1974, it showed readers the roots and the richness of Chinese American and Japanese American writing. The authors called their anthology Aiiieeeee! because that was the shout, the scream, often the only sound coming from the yellow man or woman in American movies, television, or comic books. But as that work demonstrated, the Asian American writer, long ignored and excluded from participating in American culture, has an articulate and creative voice.
 
The Big Aiiieeeee!—an entirely new and truly comprehensive collection—brings together the earliest writings to appear in America, such as the revealing An English-Chinese Phrase Book used by the first generation of Chinese immigrants, and recent stories and essays, such as "Come All Ye Asian American Writers" by Frank Chin, about the importance of Chinese and Japanese heroic tradition. Here we all can now learn of the pain, the dreams, the betrayals, and the indelible sense of "otherness" of Americans of Chinese and Japanese descent, in a seminal collection of poetry, prose, and drama—writings filled with rage and beauty, memory and vision.
 
"Here is a Gold Mountain of voices. In the telling and retelling of our stories, we create a community of memory. This huge collection invites all of us to become listeners and to claim America."—Ronald Takai, author of Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

Product details

• Format Paperback | 619 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 203 x 38.86mm | 522g
• Publication date 01 Jul 1991
• Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint New American Library
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0452010764
• ISBN13 9780452010765
• Bestsellers rank 2,831,248

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