Title: Politicizing Asian American literature : towards a critical multiculturalism /
Authors: Chae, Youngsuk.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Yamashita, Karen Tei,; Ozeki, Ruth L.; American literature Asian American authors History and criticism; Politics in literature.; Multiculturalism in literature.; Emigration and immigration in literature.; Asian Americans Intellectual life.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Asian Americans in literature.; Immigrants in literature
Contents: "Who consumes multiculturalism?" -- Part I : Politically acquiescent Asian American multiculturalism -- Cultural economies of model minority creation -- measuring silences in popular Asian American literature -- Part II : Politically conscious Asian American multiculturalism -- Beyond ethnicity : the critical movement in Asian American literature -- Is there any essential component of Asian American literature? : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Counteracting the hegemonic discourse of "America" : Ruth Ozeki's My year of meats -- Multiculturalism, or an international marketing of U.S. capitalism.