The Big AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature

The Big AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature

American literature -- Asian American authors. American literature -- Japanese American authors. American literature -- Chinese American authors. Japanese Americans -- Literary collections. Chinese Americans -- Literary collections. Asian Americans -- Literary collections.

When the first volume of this collection of Asian American literature appeared in 1974, it showed readers the roots and 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.

Chan, Jeffery Paul, ed.

Meridian

1991

PS508 .A8 B54

2003.500.2130