Screaming Monkeys

by Galang, M. Evelina; Tabios, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9781566891417
• ISBN10: 1566891418
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Coffee House Pr

Summary

Screaming Monkeys is a collaborative work designed by fiction writer M. Evelina Galang, poet Eileen Tabios, scholar Sunaina Maira, artist Jordin Isip, and spokenword activist and graphic artist Anida Yoeu Esguerra. Like the editors of this anthology, the contributors of Screaming Monkeys speak from various communities of writers, artists, scholars, and activists as well as from different ethnic communities in an effort to illustrate the diverse and often disparate perspectives of and within Asian America as well as the multiple histories integral to understanding America. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

``Philing Station,'' a found article from Milwaukee Magazine	xiv
Kicking and Screaming	1	(12)
M. Evelina Galang
Letters and found images from Milwaukee Magazine	13	(3)
Scream Monkeys, Scream---the e-mails	16	(8)
Savage
American Enterprise cover, found image	24	(1)
The Cleaving	25	(9)
Li-Young Lee
A History of ``The Savage,'' found images	34	(1)
Salvaging the Savage: On Representing Filipinos and Remembering American Empire	35	(15)
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Interracial Marriages, found text	50	(1)
Transaction	51	(2)
Brian Komei Dempster
America Is in the Heart	53	(7)
Carlos Bulosan
Pluto in a Plato	60	(1)
Dindo Llana
Chin	61	(6)
Gish Jen
On Teaching Filipinos	67	(1)
Harry Newton Cole
My Country Versus Me	68	(12)
Wen Ho Lee
Statement by Judge Parker to Wen Ho Lee, September 13, 2000	80	(6)
Andrew Cunanan or The Manhunt for Philippine America	86	(7)
Allan Isaac
Henessey ad	93	(3)
History
Untitled Art	96	(1)
Phung Huynh
Surrogate Slaves to American Dreamers, an excerpt from Helen Zia's Asian American Dreams	97	(27)
Statements by American Presidents, found text	124	(2)
The Day the Dancers Came	126	(12)
Bienvenido Santos
Chinese Exclusion Act, a U.S. government document	138	(4)
White and Wong	142	(1)
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Presidential Caricatures, found images	143	(1)
Hello, Nuremberg	144	(1)
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Homeland Memories and Media: Filipino Images and Imaginations in America	145	(9)
Rick Bonus
Reverse Racism	154	(2)
Thien-Bao Thuc Phi
Why Are We Here? Thoughts on Asian-American Identity and Honoring Asian-Americans in Congress	156	(6)
Mari Matsuda
A General Timeline of the Asian American Experience	162	(6)
Women
Skyy Vodka ad, found image	168	(1)
She Casts Off Expectations	169	(11)
Phoebe Eng
Gidra response to Skyy Vodka	180	(1)
Fifty-Fifty	181	(8)
Robbie Clipper Sethi
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow	189	(5)
Marilyn Chin
Take Me Out	194	(1)
Wennie Huang
Chronicle	195	(2)
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
you bring out the filipina in me	197	(2)
maiana minahal
Four Million	199	(4)
Bino A. Realuyo
Go Geisha, found images	203	(1)
Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck	204	(7)
Jessica Hagedorn
A Few Words on Rome, or The Neighbor Who Never Waves	211	(2)
Jon Pineda
SEXploitation within the Asian American Community, found images	213	(1)
Meena's Curse	214	(9)
Geeta Kothari
Report No. 49, by United States Army Forces India-Burma Theater	223	(1)
Red Lines Across the Map	224	(4)
S.L. Kim
Culture
Culture in a Box, found images	228	(1)
Mirror Mirror Tea Tea	229	(2)
Sunaina Maira
I Wanna Marry a Haole so I Can Have a Haole Last Name	231	(7)
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Untitled Art	238	(1)
Betty Kung
Assignment	239	(2)
Nick Carbo
Untitled Art	241	(1)
Hiroshi Kimura
Hello Kitty	242	(4)
Denise Duhamel
Sumo-esque	246	(2)
Molly McQuade
A Blue Boy in a Picasso Painting	248	(1)
Purvi Shah
gridlock	249	(2)
Lori Tsang
The Rules of the Game	251	(3)
Ricco Villanueava Siasoco
Southeast Indian Images	254	(1)
Summer of Bruce	255	(11)
Vijay Prashad
Untitled Art	266	(1)
Saiman Chow
Ancient Chinese Secrets and Little White Lies	267	(6)
Lynn Lu
A Lavender Army	273	(3)
Tara Agtarap
AGFA scanner ad, found image	276	(1)
Race and Representation: Asian Americans	277	(13)
Sonia Shah
Untitled Art	290	(1)
Barry McGee
Headlines and Quotes from Mainstream America	291	(3)
Men
The Next Trophy Boyfriends, found article from Newsweek	294	(1)
Fargo and the Asian American Male	295	(3)
David Mura
Gidra response to Newsweek plus letters to Newsweek editors	298	(2)
The Barbarians Are Coming	300	(13)
David Wong Louie
Untitled Art	313	(1)
David Choe
Satta Massagana	314	(4)
Dennis Sangmin Kim
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	(2)
Eugenio Matibag
The Boy Fell	320	(1)
Edward del Rosario
The Two Filipinos	321	(3)
R. Zamora Linmark
When Heroes Are Not Dead: An Essay in Two Voices	324	(5)
Bino A. Realuyo
Solitary in a Strange Land	329	(1)
Xue Di
Forrest Gander
Hil Anderson
Five Rice Queens	330	(1)
Timothy Liu
When Fidelito Is the New Boy at School	331	(1)
Oliver Francisco de la Paz
The Price of Eggs in China	332	(22)
Don Lee
War
Graffiti Images	354	(1)
President Theodore Roosevelt's Proclamation Formally Ending the Philippine ``Insurrection'' and Granting of Pardon and Amnesty, found text	355	(2)
Voices of Imperialism and War, found text	357	(2)
The Ancient Baguio Dead	359	(1)
Patrick Rosal
Talking About the Woman in Cholon	360	(4)
Cecilia Brainard
Untitled Art	364	(1)
Kay Chung
Executive Order Number 9066, U.S. government document	365	(2)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Drawing the Line	367	(10)
Lawson Inada
Apology of Bill Clinton to Japanese America, found text	377	(1)
Honor, 1946	378	(1)
Vince Gotera
Justifying U.S. Assistance to Filipino War Veterans	379	(3)
Senator Daniel Inouye
``More Fun Than a Turkey Shoot,''	382	(2)
Luisa A. Igloria
South Wind Changing	384	(8)
Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh
Dictee	392	(3)
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Black Korea	395	(4)
Walter Lew
Blue Dreams	399	(8)
Nancy Abelmann
John Lie
Caught Prey	407	(2)
Johnson Cheu
Body Search	409	(1)
Luis Cabalquinto
On the Other Side of Granite	410	(2)
Marlon Unas Esguerra
Storefront, found images	412	(1)
Wilshire Bus	413	(4)
Hisaye Yamamoto
Antiwar Statement of Filipino Educators, found text	417	(3)
Anti-Asian Incidents, found text	420	(1)
A History of Anti-Asian Violence, found text, compiled	421	(5)
Transcendence
Untitled Art	426	(1)
Jordin Isip
Nobility	427	(1)
Eileen Tabios
Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXIX	428	(1)
John Yau
Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXX	429	(1)
John Yau
After My Chronology	430	(1)
Peter Lorre
John Yau
litany no. m	431	(1)
Michella Rivera-Gravage
They Grew Up to Be Lovely	432	(1)
Luba Halicki
Labandera	433	(14)
M. Evelina Galang
Axolotl	447	(1)
Arthur Sze
In Your Honor	448	(1)
Arthur Sze
Time for Pause	449	(1)
Maya Rani Khosla
I'm Still Warm	450	(1)
Oscar Penaranda
Untitled Art	451	(1)
James Yang
One-Man Show	452	(35)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Making Sense of Screaming: A Monkey's Companion	487	(12)
Leslie Bow
Contributors' Notes	499	(14)
Acknowledgments	513