Writing the ghetto class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
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 classes in literature. Model minority stereotype. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.