The Big aiiieeeee! : an anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American literature / edited by Jeffery Paul Chan ... [et al.].

A Meridian book.--T. p.

other works are more obscure but no less vivid. In the short story "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian," Sui Sin Far, one of several eloquent women writers included, describes a young girl's struggle for identity in late 19th-century America. "Why did God make us to be hooted and stared at? Papa is English, Mamma2 "m"s in text is Chinese. Why couldn't we have been either one thing or the other?" The editors' previous collection was Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc."www.shelfari.com

Aiiieeeee!" is the angry cry of Asian Americans, "long ignored and forcibly excluded from creative participation in American culture." In their incendiary introduction, the editors of this absorbing collection condemn the "white racist imagination" that has permeated such popular Asian American works as Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club . The writings themselves--remarkably diverse, ranging from haiku to autobiography--present a subtler, often poignant picture of Chinese and Japanese immigrants and their American-born childrenpk striving to adjust to an unwelcoming new culture. The best-known piece is an excerpt from Louis Chu's novel Eat a Bowl of Tea