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Ingratitude - The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Ingratitude - The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature (Hardcover, New)
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2013 Winner of the Asian American Studies Association's prize in
Literary Studies Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives
written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite
their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, erin Khue
Ninh explores this apparent paradox, locating in the origins of
these women's maddeningly immaterial suffering not only racial
hegemonies but also the structure of the immigrant family itself.
She argues that the filial debt of these women both demands and
defies repayment-all the better to produce the docile subjects of a
model minority.Through readings of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese
Daughter, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Evelyn Lau's
Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, Catherine Liu's Oriental Girls
Desire Romance, and other texts, Ninh offers not an empirical study
of intergenerational conflict so much as an explication of the
subjection and psyche of the Asian American daughter. She connects
common literary tropes to their theoretical underpinnings in power,
profit, and subjection. In so doing, literary criticism crosses
over into a kind of collective memoir of the Asian immigrants'
daughter as an analysis not of the daughter, but for and by her.
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