Writing the Ghetto : Class, Authorship and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave /
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...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2010].
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| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=413552 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Writing the ghetto
- "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre
- The Japanese American internment : master narratives and class critique
- Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy
- Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots
- Indian Edison: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography
- Conclusion : A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.