Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-

Writing the ghetto class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / [electronic resource] : Yoonmee Chang. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010. - x, 238 p.

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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American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
Poverty in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Model minority stereotype.


Electronic books.

PS508.A8 / C53 2010eb

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