Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images

by M. Evelina Galang (Editor)

Overview

When a restaurant review referred to a Filipino child as a "rambunctious -little monkey," Filipino Americans were outraged. Sparked by this racist incident, Screaming Monkeys sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it -illuminates the diverse and often neglected history and culture within the Asian American diaspora. Poems, essays, paintings, and stories break down and challenge "found" articles, photographs, and headlines to create this powerful anthology with all the immediacy of social protest. By closely critiquing a wealth of material, including the judge’s statement of apology in the Wen Ho Lee case, the media treatment of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, and the image of Asian Americans in major U.S. marketing campaigns, Screaming Monkeys will inspire all its readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566891417
Publisher:	Coffee House Press
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

M. EVELINA GALANG is the author of two books of fiction — Her Wild American Self (Coffee House Press, '96), a collection of short stories and the novel, One Tribe (New Issues Press, '06). In addition to writing fiction and nonfiction, she has edited the anthology, Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee House Press, '03). Galang is the recipient of numerous awards, among them, the 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights and the 2004 AWP Prize in the Novel, for ONE TRIBE. Galang has been researching the lives of the women of Liga ng mga Lolang Pilipina (LILA Pilipina), surviving Filipina "Comfort Women" of WWII, since 1998. In 2002, she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Philippines where she continued her work with survivors. This past year, she authored the blog, "Laban for the Lolas!" in support of House Resolution 121 and was the Filipino American Outreach coordinator for 121 Coalition. She is currently writing Lolas' House: Women Living with War, stories of Surviving Filipina Comfort Women of World War II and is at work on her second novel, Angel de la Luna and THE 5th GLORIOUS MYSTERY and is at work on a new novel, BEAUTIFUL SORROW, BEAUTIFUL SKY. Galang teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami and has recently been nominated one of the 100 most influential Filipinas in the US by Filipina Women's Network.

Table of Contents

	"Philing Station," a found article from Milwaukee Magazine	xiv
	Kicking and Screaming	1
	Letters and found images from Milwaukee Magazine	13
	Scream Monkeys, Scream--the e-mails	16
	Savage
	American Enterprise cover, found image	24
	The Cleaving	25
	A History of "The Savage," found images	34
	Salvaging the Savage: On Representing Filipinos and Remembering American Empire	35
	Interracial Marriages, found text	50
	Transaction	51
	America Is in the Heart	53
	Pluto in a Plato	60
	Chin	61
	On Teaching Filipinos	67
	My Country Versus Me	68
	Statement by Judge Parker to Wen Ho Lee, September 13, 2000	80
	Andrew Cunanan or The Manhunt for Philippine America	86
	Henessey ad	93
	History
	Untitled	96
	Surrogate Slaves to American Dreamers, an excerpt from Helen Zia's Asian American Dreams	97
	Statements by American Presidents, found text	124
	The Day the Dancers Came	126
	Chinese Exclusion Act, a U.S. government document	138
	White and Wong	142
	Presidential Caricatures, found images	143
	Hello, Nuremberg	144
	Homeland Memories and Media: Filipino Images and Imaginations in America	145
	Reverse Racism	154
	Why Are We Here? Thoughts on Asian-American Identity and Honoring Asian-Americans in Congress	156
	A General Timeline of the Asian American Experience	162
	Women
	Skyy Vodka ad, found image	168
	She Casts Off Expectations, an excerpt from Warrior Lessons	169
	Gidra response to Skyy Vodka	180
	Fifty-Fifty	181
	Rhapsody in Plain Yellow	189
	Take Me Out	194
	Chronicle	195
	You bring out the filipina in me	197
	Four Million	199
	Go Geisha, found images	203
	Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck	204
	A Few Words on Rome, or The Neighbor Who Never Waves	211
	SEXploitation within the Asian American Community, found images	213
	Meena's Curse	214
	Report No. 49, by United States Army Forces India-Burma Theater	223
	Red Lines Across the Map	224
	Culture
	Culture in a Box, found images	228
	Mirror Mirror Tea Tea	229
	I Wanna Marry a Haole so I Can Have a Haole Last Name	231
	Untitled	238
	Assignment	239
	Untitled	241
	Hello Kitty	242
	Sumo-esque	246
	A Blue Boy in a Picasso Painting	248
	Gridlock	249
	The Rules of the Game	251
	Southeast Indian Images	254
	Summer of Bruce	255
	Untitled	266
	Ancient Chinese Secrets and Little White Lies	267
	A Lavender Army	273
	AGFA scanner ad, found image	276
	Race and Representation: Asian Americans	277
	Untitled	290
	Headlines and Quotes from Mainstream America	291
	Men
	The Next Trophy Boyfriends, found article from Newsweek	294
	Fargo and the Asian American Male	295
	Gidra response to Newsweek plus letters to Newsweek editors	298
	The Barbarians Are Coming	300
	Untitled	313
	Satta Massagana	314
	Findings of a Recent Inquiry into the Background and Causes of a Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Case of an American Subject of Filipino Descent	318
	The Boy Fell	320
	The Two Filipinos	321
	When Heroes Are Not Dead: An Essay in Two Voices	324
	Solitary in a Strange Land	329
	Five Rice Queens	330
	When Fidelito Is the New Boy at School	331
	The Price of Eggs in China	332
	War
	Graffiti Images	354
	President Theodore Roosevelt's Proclamation Formally Ending the Philippine "Insurrection" and Granting of Pardon and Amnesty, found text	355
	Voices of Imperialism and War, found text	357
	The Ancient Baguio Dead	359
	Talking About the Woman in Cholon	360
	Untitled	364
	Executive Order Number 9066, U.S. government document	365
	Drawing the Line	367
	Apology of Bill Clinton to Japanese America, found text	377
	Honor, 1946	378
	Justifying U.S. Assistance to Filipino War Veterans	379
	"More Fun Than a Turkey Shoot,"	382
	South Wind Changing	384
	Dictee	392
	Black Korea	395
	Blue Dreams	399
	Caught Prey	407
	Body Search	409
	On the Other Side of Granite	410
	Storefront, found images	412
	Wilshire Bus	413
	Antiwar Statement of Filipino Educators, found text	417
	Anti-Asian Incidents, found text	420
	A History of Anti-Asian Violence, found text, compiled	421
	Transcendence
	Untitled	426
	Nobility	427
	Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXIX	428
	Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXX	429
	After My Chronology by Peter Lorre	430
	Litany no. m	431
	They Grew Up to Be Lovely	432
	Labandera	433
	Axolotl	447
	In Your Honor	448
	Time for Pause	449
	I'm Still Warm	450
	Untitled	451
	One-Man Show, an excerpt from Tripmaster Monkey	452
	Making Sense of Screaming: A Monkey's Companion	487
	Contributors' Notes	499
	Acknowledgments	513