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The Chickencoop Chinaman / The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays

Chin, Frank

History

University of Washington Press

When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. With the publication of this volume, the plays can now be read and debated and enjoyed by a larger audience.

The chickencoop Chinaman ; and, The year of the dragon: Two plays

When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. With the publication of this volume, the plays can now be read and debated and enjoyed by a larger audience.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Classic Literature, Literary Studies, Asian Studies

Aiiieeeee!

United States

DOUBLEDAY

This acclaimed anthology brings together the outstanding voices of Asian American writing. Spanning over forty years, in short stories and excerpts from plays and novels, in settings that range from wartime internment camps to Chinatowns, to white suburban society where Asian Americans make uneasy entry, the men and women who write in the pages shed the veil of "inscrutability" to reveal powerful human truth, drama, and artistry."

Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers

Inada, Lawson Fusao

Chan, Jeffrey Paul

Signet

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

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

Wong, Shawn

Chan, Jeffery Paul

Plume

This book is a chorus of Asian American Writers. These writers shed the truth and unveil the power of truth, drama and artistry

Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian-American Writers

Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947 (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

This unique oral history presents the Japanese American saga as told by those who lived through it. Frank Chin details the lives of first and second generation Japanese Americans before World War II with a rich kaleidoscope of images drawn from interviews, popular songs, novels, and newspaper articles. The heart of his story is the tragedy that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Japanese American citizens lost their homes and property and were forced into internment camps. The author deftly weaves interviews and testimony from the Japanese American Citizen's League (JACL) with opposing, in-depth conversations with those who resisted the JACL's support for U.S. policy. This shameful episode in American history resonates deeply today as we witness similar erosions of civil rights in the name of wartime security.

Americas

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

“America doesn’t want us as a visible native minority. They want us to keep our place as Americanized foreigners ruled by immigrant loyalty. But never having been anything else but born here, I’ve never been foreign and resent having foreigners telling me my place in America and America telling me I’m foreign. There’s no denial or rejection of Chinese culture going on here, just the recognition of the fact that Americanized Chinese are not Chinese Americans and that Chinese Americans cannot be understood in the terms of either Chinese or American culture, or some ‘chow mein/spaghetti’ formula of Chinese and American cultures, or anything else you’ve seen and loved in Charlie Chan.” ―from “Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy”

Bulletproof Buddhists (Intersections - Asian and Pacific AmericanTranscultural Studies) (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies, 6)

Essays & Correspondence

University of Hawaii Press

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The Chickencoop Chinaman / The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays

The chickencoop Chinaman ; and, The year of the dragon: Two plays

The Chickencoop Chinaman / The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays

Aiiieeeee!

Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers

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

Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian-American Writers

Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947 (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947 (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

Bulletproof Buddhists (Intersections - Asian and Pacific AmericanTranscultural Studies) (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies, 6)