Writing the ghetto
Subtitle: class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave
By: Yoonmee Chang.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813548012
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Asian Americans in literature; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Poverty in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Social life and customs in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Writing the ghetto; title: "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre; title: The Japanese American internment: master narratives and class critique; title: Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy; title: Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 LA Riots; title: Arrival?: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography; title: Epilogue: A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.