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Summary

Includes prose, poetry, songs, excerpts from novels and plays

Author Biography

Shawn Wong was born in Oakland, California, in 1949. He is a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has coedited the much-acclaimed Yardbird anthologies as well as Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers, and The Big Aiiieeeee!

Table of Contents

Introduction

Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake, by Frank Chin

An English-Chinese Phrase Book, by Wong Sam and Assistants

Three Short Stories by Sui Sin Far: Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian; The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese; Her Chinese Husband

Poems from Songs of Gold Mountain, translated by Marlon K. Hom: Immigration Blues; Lamentations of Stranded Sojourners

from Homebase, a novel by Shawn Wong

A Farmer's Life, from Hawaii: End of the Rainbow, a novel by Kazuo Miyamoto

And the Soul Shall Dance, Act One of a play by Wakako Yamauchi

The Seventh Street Philosopher, a short story by Toshio Mori

from Nisei Daughter, a memoir by Monica Sone

from All I Asking For Is My Body, a novel by Milton Murayama

from Horizon Is Calling, an autobiographic picture book by Taro Yashima

The Shoyu Kid, a short story by Lonny Kaneko

Laughter and False Teeth, a play by Hiroshi Kashiwagi

The Legend of Miss Sasagawara, a short story by Hisaye Yamamoto

Poetic Reflections of the Tule Lake Internment Camp 1944, haiku by Violet Kazue Matsuda de Cristoforo

The University of California Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study: A Prolegomenon, by Peter T. Suzuki

from Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps, by Michi Weglyn

Good Law vs. Good Publicity, by Minoru Yasui

Two Short Stories: Relocation by Larry Tajiri; Nurse by Masaharu Hane

from Obasan, a novel by Joy Kogawa

from No-No Boy, a novel by John Okada

from Eat a Bowl of Tea, a novel by Louis Chu

The Only Real Day, a short story by Frank Chin

Cheap Labor, a story by Jeffery Paul Chan

In a World Small Enough, a short story by David Wong Louie

Four Poems by Wing Tek Lum: Grateful Here; Going Home; The Poet Imagines His Grandfather's Thoughts on the Day He Died; To My Father

Five Poems by Lawson Fusao Inada: The Stand; The Discovery of Tradition; Concentration Constellation; Ainu Blues; On Being Asian American

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