Under Western Eyes-P355537/2b

By Garrett Hongo

Well-known writers such as Amy Tan join up-and-coming talents including Chang-rae Lee to speak about their personal experiences as Asian Americans, covering such issues as racism, generational... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385472390
• ISBN13: 9780385472395
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Unique cultural perspectives

I found this book at the library, and after reading it, hope to buy a copy to keep--something I rarely do. This is a collection of engaging first-person nonfiction stories by Asian-American writers. Anyone of western culture would be fascinated by these stories. I turned to Amy Tan's first, since she is a famous writer. But all of the stories are good (you can skip the introduction). They cover experiences of Americans whose ancestry is Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and more. A painful, though subtle, element to the book is understanding how a "caucasianing" process has happened to most of these people. They are personal stories. If you like family drama, laugh-out-loud humor, and a good tearjerker, it is found in here. If you have thought of "Asian-Americans" as a single group of people, you will not after reading this.