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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Chang, Yoonmee, 1970- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010].
Cyfres:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj1km
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.