Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority - Couverture rigide

Ty, Eleanor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252040880 ISBN 13 : 9780252040887

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252040880
• ISBN 13: 9780252040887
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible