TY  - GEN
T1  - Writing the Ghetto : Class, Authorship and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
T2  - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn768082834
AB  - In the United States, perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community, which is often described as residing in positive-sounding "ethnic enclaves." Yoonmee Chang's 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.
AB  - Writing the Ghetto discusses texts that are set in a variety of contexts--from the Chinese Exclusion Era and Japanese American Internment during World War II to the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the contemporary emergence of the "ethnoburh"--Created by such authors as Sui Sin Far, Winnifred Eaton, Monica Sone, Fae Myenne Ng, Changrae Lee, S. Mitra Kalita, and Nam Le. Examining the class structure of Chinatowns, Koreatowns, Little Tokyos, and Little Indias, Chang maintains that over time ghettoization in these spaces has been disguised, and that, due to the influence of an "ethnographic imperative," Astan American writers have alternately assisted and subverted this masking. The relegation of Asian Americans to literal ghettos is further complicated, Chang argues, by the confinement of their authors to literary ones. -- publisher.
OP  - 238
CN  - PS508.A8 C53 2010eb
SN  - 9780813549842
SN  - 0813549841
SN  - 1283369931
SN  - 9781283369930
SN  - 9786613369932
SN  - 6613369934
SN  - 9780813548012
SN  - 0813548012
KW  - American literature : Asian American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Asian Americans : Intellectual life.
KW  - Asian Americans in literature.
KW  - Ethnic groups in literature.
KW  - Model minority stereotype.
KW  - Poverty in literature.
KW  - Social classes in literature.
KW  - Littérature américaine : Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Américains d'origine asiatique : Vie intellectuelle.
KW  - Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
KW  - Groupes ethniques dans la littérature.
KW  - Stéréotype de la minorité modèle.
KW  - Pauvreté dans la littérature.
KW  - Classes sociales dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : Asian American.
KW  - American literature : Asian American authors
KW  - Asian Americans in literature
KW  - Asian Americans : Intellectual life
KW  - Ethnic groups in literature
KW  - Model minority stereotype
KW  - Poverty in literature
KW  - Social classes in literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -