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Writing the ghetto

by Chang, Yoonmee,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Rutgers University Press, (New Brunswick, N.J. :) Physical details: x, 238 p.
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 stereotype. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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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.

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

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