Politicizing Asian American literature : towards a critical multiculturalism / by Youngsuk Chae.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Asian Americans.
Main Author: Chae, Youngsuk
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2008], ©2008.
Series:Asian Americans.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Politics in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Yamashita, Karen Tei, > 1951- > Tropic of orange.
Ozeki, Ruth, > 1956- > My year of meats.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Physical Description:xii, 169 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.