Asianfail

Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority

Eleanor Ty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08235-1 (ISBN)

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Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed. Some are haunted by childhood memories of war, trauma, and refugee camps. Rejecting an obsession with professional status and money, they seek fulfillment by prioritizing relationships, personal growth, and cultural success. As Ty shows, these storytellers have done more than reject a narrowly defined road to happiness. They have rejected neoliberal capitalism itself. In so doing, they demand that the rest of us reconsider our outmoded ideas about the so-called model minority.

Eleanor Ty is a professor of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. She is the author of Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives and coeditor of Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Asian American Experience
Zusatzinfo	6 black and white photographs, 1 table
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08235-4 / 0252082354
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08235-1 / 9780252082351
Zustand	Neuware