Ingratitude : : The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / / erin Khuê Ninh.
Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, erin Khuê Ninh explores this apparent paradox, locating in the origins of these women’s maddeningly immaterial suffering not only rac...
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Ninh, erin Khuê, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ingratitude : The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / erin Khuê Ninh. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Filial Debtor: Jade Snow Wong -- 2. Refractions of Harm: Maxine Hong Kingston -- 3. The Caring of Jailers: Evelyn Lau, Catherine Liu -- 4. Desirable Daughters: Fae Myenne Ng, Elaine Mar, Chitra Divakaruni -- Afterword: The Ending -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, erin Khuê 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) American literature Asian American authors. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and daughters. Obedience. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814758441 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814758441.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759196 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814759196/original |
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