Writing the Ghetto - Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

Informationen zum Autor Yoonmee Chang is an associate professor of English and an affiliate of cultural studies at George Mason University. Klappentext In the United States! perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community. Rather than living in ominous "ghettoes!" Asian Americans are described as residing in positive-sounding "ethnic enclaves." Writing the Ghetto helps clarify the hidden or unspoken class inequalities faced by Asian Americans! while insightfully analyzing the effect such notions have had on their literary voices. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: The Asian American Ghetto 12 “Like a Slum”: Ghettos and Ethnic Enclaves, Ghetto and Genre 253 The Japanese American Internment: Master Narratives and Class Critique 704 Chinese Suicide: Political Desire and Queer Exogamy 1115 Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Korean American Spies, Shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots 1356 Indian Edison: The Ethnoburbian Paradox and Corrective Ethnography 176Conclusion: The Postracial Aesthetic and Class Visibility 201

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Yoonmee Chang
• Edition: Rutgers University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780813548012
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4801-2
• Thèmes: American Literatures Initiativ; American Literatures Initiativ
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Ethnologie > Folklore