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

By: Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010Description: 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 stereotypeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/895073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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