Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority (Asian American Experience) - Tapa dura

Ty, Eleanor

 
9780252040887: Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority (Asian American Experience)
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ISBN 10: 0252040880 ISBN 13: 9780252040887
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2017

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252040880
ISBN 13 
9780252040887
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
172
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