Writing the ghetto [electronic resource] : class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / Yoonmee Chang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.Description: x, 238 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 810.9/895073 22
LOC classification:
  • PS508.A8 C53 2010eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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