The Chauvinist and Other Stories

The Chauvinist and Other Stories features twenty-two stories of Japanese-American life, ranging in settings from pre-WWII era California, to wartime internment camps, to the postwar Nisei experience. As an Asian Times reviewer notes when The Chauvinist first appeared, Mori "cannot fail to reach [his readers] because he is an honest man, speaking from his own experience, his own suffering and happiness, his own real and human life." The writer Hisaye Yamamoto, in the original introduction to this collection, declared Mori "indisputably the pioneer of Japanese American literature."The collection's republication in this volume marks the first time these stories are widely available in over forty years.