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ISBN: 0140231110

ISBN13: 9780140231113

Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction

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Item: Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
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(Book #1 in the Charlie Chan Is Dead Series)

By Meena Alexander Marilyn Chin Hisaye Yamamoto, et al.

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0140231110

ISBN13:9780140231113

Release Date:December 1993

Publisher:Penguin Group

Length:569 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Rated 5 stars
in response to Jack C....

By Thriftbooks.com User, 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...

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Rated 4 stars
I liked it.

By Thriftbooks.com User, 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...

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Rated 5 stars
Must take exception with previous review...

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 24, 1999

The previous reviewer of this book said: Chan/Moto movies....''all with bad foreign accents, and goof-ball social ettiquette, spouting out fortune cookie wisdom and acting in some subservient role to another stronger, non-Asian character." Clearly she's never seen the movies. Though Moto and Chan were not played by Asian actors, true, the Asian characters they played NEVER were 'subservient' to non-Asian characters...

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Rated 5 stars
the Asian American writer's bible

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 21, 1999

As an Asian American not-yet-published writer myself, I find this to be a incredibly valuable collection of some of the most talented Asian American authors today. As Jessica Hagedorn wrote in her introduction, for too long has America seen Asian Americans with this Charlie Chan/Mr. Moto image in their minds, all with bad foreign accents, and goof-ball social ettiquette, spouting out fortune cookie wisdom and acting in...

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