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

Literature & Fiction

Inada, Lawson Fusao

Chin, Frank

Chan, Jeffrey Paul

United States

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

Before The War; Poems As They Happened

Morrow

Winner, 1994 American Book Award. Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry finalist. "Recommended for classroom and library use, this book will add a fresh dimension to a growing body of literature that remembers, humanizes, and shares the Japanese-American internment experience for new generations."--Choice

Legends from Camp

Poetry

Coffee House Press

Inada hip hops from Buddhism to Soul, the mountains to jazz, concentration camps to Charlie Parker.

Drawing the Line

Published in conjunction with an exhibition developed collaboratively with the Oregon community. Includes original poetry by Japanese American poet laureate Lawson Fusao Inada and rare photographs of pre-war Issei life in the Northwest.

In this great land of freedom: The Japanese pioneers of Oregon

History

Azuma, Eiichiro

Kikumura, Akemi

Worthington, Mary

Asia

Japanese American National Museum

Born in Oakland, California, in 1910, the young Toshio Mori dreamed of being an artist, a Buddhist missionary, and a baseball player. Instead, he grew flowers in the family nursery business, and—influenced by contemporaries such as Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Heming-way —produced a body of extraordinary fiction. His well-crafted, humorous, wise tales celebrate the Japanese American community he knew so well, and reach beyond it to describe the essential human condition. The promise of a writing career was tragically interrupted when the publication of his first collection of short stories, Yokohama, California, was cancelled after the United States entered World War II. Mori was soon on his way from Oakland to Topaz, Utah—one of 110,000 citizens of Japanese descent held in internment camps between 1941 and 1944. When Yokohama, California was finally published in 1949, Toshio Mori was, at last, able to claim his place as "one of the most important new writers in the country" (William Saroyan). Unfinished Message includes fifteen stories, a novella, letters, photographs, and an interview with Toshio Mori. Some of this material has never before been published.

Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori (California Legacy Book)

Mori, Toshio

Mori, Steven Y.

Heyday Books

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