- Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Summary
- 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 prioritising 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.
- Series Statement
- The Asian American experience
- Uniform Title
- Asian American experience.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 8, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9780252099380
- OCLC
- EDZ0001724026
- Author
Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958- author.
- Title
Asianfail : narratives of disenchantment and the model minority / Eleanor Ty.
- Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
The Asian American experience
Asian American experience.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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