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Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
Contributor(s): Thoma, Pamela (Author)

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 ISBN: 1439910189     ISBN-13: 9781439910184
Publisher: American Literatures Initiative
OUR PRICE: $82.18  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - Asian American
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 810.989
LCCN: 2013016619
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9" L (0.95 lbs) 220 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These "crossover" books--mother-daughter narratives, chick lit, detective fiction, and food writing--attempt to bridge ethnic audiences and a broader reading public. In Asian American Women's Popular Literature, Pamela Thoma considers how these books both depict contemporary American-ness and contribute critically to public dialogue about national belonging. Novels such as Michelle Yu and Blossom Kan's China Dolls and Sonia Singh's Goddess for Hire, or mysteries including Sujata Massey's Girl in a Box and Suki Kim's The Interpreter, reveal Asian American women's ambivalence about the trappings and prescriptions of mainstream American society. Thoma shows how these writers' works address the various pressures on women to manage their roles in relation to family and finances--reconciling the demands of work, consumer culture, and motherhood--in a neoliberal society.

A volume in the American Literatures Initiative.
 
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