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Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction Paperback – December 1, 1993

by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor)

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The writers included in this ground-breaking anthology are exhilarating in their differences: cultural backgrounds, age range, literary styles. From Jose Garcia Villa's minimalist "Untitled Story, " first published in 1933, to Meena Alexander's "Manhattan Music, " with its razor-sharp look at the hip downtown New York art scene of the troubled 1990s, their stories sweep across the twentieth century and across the range of Asian American experience. These characters make love, worry about the future, endure hardships. They audition for jobs as anchormen. They are displaced, assimilated, rebellious. They lie and cheat; they betray themselves and others. These are stories about Asian Americans, yes, but, finally, they are stories about life.

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In her introduction Hagedorn ( Danger and Beauty ) calls Asian American literature "too confining a term" for these wide-ranging works. And indeed while the short stories and novel excerpts, nearly half being published for the first time, provide interesting reading, they seem to lack a cohering premise. Moreover, pieces by well-known writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan are not particularly fresh. The most successful of the works paint sharp portraits of individuals. Gish Jen's Catholic-school girl is eager to work miracles, especially after her mother falls from a bedroom window during a fight with her father. Cynthia Kadohata's domineering grandmother insists on telling inappropriate stories and affects the narrator so forcefully that the girl swears, "Anything she does, I never will." Marilyn Chin's Moon is "a little fat Chinese girl" who is humiliated by two boys who urinate on her, and subsequently by her parents, then wreaks supernatural revenge. Cherylene Lee's narrator tells how her brother came to be a flame diver despite their overprotective parents' disapproval and muses that "Perhaps there is a Chinese gene encoded with a protein for caution."
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These stories by 48 Asian American authors writing in English are from India, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Malaysia. Some are established writers (Carlos Bulosan, Diana Chang, Jessica Hagedorn, Gish Jen, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Wong Louie, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, and Wakako Yamauchi), but most are emerging writers. All express the difficulties, ambiguities, vagaries, and joys of living in America as Asians. Particularly effective are Meena Alexander's "Manhattan Music," Kimiko Hahn's "Afterbirth," Louie's "Pangs of Love," Darrell Lum's "Fourscore and Seven Years Ago" in pidgin, and Shawn Wong's "Eye Contact." Recommended for public libraries.
- Kitty Chen Dean, Nassau Coll., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (December 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140231110
ISBN-13: 978-0140231113
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 8.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 2 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,064,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #20146 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Anthologies
- #89306 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary
- #169155 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States

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June 7, 2005

Jack, just because somebody doesn't happen to agree with your personal perspective doesn't make them "ignorant". Your perspective on the Chan and Moto films isn't the only valid view. The great Keye Luke's perspective was that the Chan films were not racist and many agree with him. That doesn't make Chan supporters "racist" or "ignorant". Their perspective is every bit as valid as yours. Chan is a symbol of justice and wisdom to many people. You should take note of the fact that he is portrayed as being superior to the white characters in HIS movies. The same is true of the Moto films. Individuals who truly love and respect Chan and Moto as cinematic heroes are in no way attempting to be "ignorant" or "racist".

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July 20, 2001

Lol, it's ridiculous, Moto and Charlie Chan are degrading depictions of Asians...pure and simple; it's racist. Anybody who says otherwise is trully ignorant on the subject (i.e. the previous reviewer..no wonder he/she kept him/herself anonymous). Anyway, I liked the book, but I wouldn't say it's the bible for Asian American literature. Why? Well, some of the authors featured here in are not representive of Asian American literature (i.e. Elaine Kim, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan). There's only one book that I know that is trully Asian American, and that would be THE BIG AIIIEEEEE! But, that doesn't mean you shouldn't get this book. There are some authors here that aren't sell-outs and this book makes a great summer read!

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