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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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press
2010.
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| Edice: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj1km |
Obsah:
- Acknowledgments; 1
- Introduction: The Asian American Ghetto; 2
- "Like a Slum": Ghettos and Ethnic Enclaves, Ghetto and Genre; 3
- The Japanese American Internment: Master Narratives and Class Critique; 4
- Chinese Suicide: Political Desire and Queer Exogamy; 5
- Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Korean American Spies, Shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots; 6
- Indian Edison: The Ethnoburbian Paradox and Corrective Ethnography; Conclusion: The Postracial Aesthetic and Class Visibility; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.