Yoonmee Chang

Writing the Ghetto

Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the hidden or unspoken class inequalities faced by Asian Americans, while insightfully analysing the effect such notions have had on their literary voices. Chang discusses texts from the late nineteenth century to the present that cover a range of contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780813551753
• ISBN-10: 0813551757
• Artikelnr.: 33772303

Autorenporträt

Chang, Yoonmee

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The Asian American Ghetto 1
2 “Like a Slum”: Ghettos and Ethnic Enclaves, Ghetto and Genre 25
3 The Japanese American Internment: Master Narratives and Class Critique 70
4 Chinese Suicide: Political Desire and Queer Exogamy 111
5 Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Korean American Spies, Shopkeepers, and the 1992
Los Angeles Riots 135
6 Indian Edison: The Ethnoburbian Paradox and Corrective Ethnography 176
Conclusion: The Postracial Aesthetic and Class Visibility 201