Writing the ghetto [electronic resource] : class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / Yoonmee Chang.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010Description: x, 238 pISBN: 9780813549842 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 stereotypeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/895073 LOC classification: PS508.A8 | C53 2010Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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