Yoonmee Chang

Writing the Ghetto

Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780813548012
• ISBN-10: 0813548012
• Artikelnr.: 32305687

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