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Journal Article
Introduction to Volume Ten: Aiiieeeee! at 45
2019
Overview
Nor are today's students likely to be aware that Aiiieeeee! was responsible for recuperating - and subsequently memorializing - a multitude of Japanese American, Chinese American, and Filipino American literary voices that had been neglected or actively rejected by the publishing industry. Aiiieeeee! birthed the concept of Asian American literature as a simultaneously political and literary category, one crucial to understanding the politicization of Asian Americans during the Civil Rights era, Third World movements, and struggles to establish ethnic studies departments and programs. To some extent, its volume has been dampened precisely in response to its call; in the editors' search for their own \"literary ancestors\" as Asian American writers - a term Shawn Wong has regularly used in his own description of the book's genealogy - they ended up becoming a match to strike the flame of a whole generation of new Asian American writers, a number of whom are represented in this special issue. In the immediate wake of Aiiieeeee! there also sprung up numerous other Asian American literary anthologies that have helped to showcase a broader range of voices, including Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets (1983), The Best of Bamboo Ridge (1986), Blue Funnel Line: A special issue of Seattle Review (1988), The Forbidden Stitch (1989), The Big AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature (1991), American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices (1993), The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993), Growing Up Asian American: An Anthology (1993), Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction.
