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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.