Bilingual Brokers : : Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital / / Jeehyun Lim.
Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Cultural Brokers in Interwar Orientalism
- 2. Bilingual Personhood and the American Dream
- 3. Schooling Bilinguals In and against Multiculturalism
- 4. Dormant Bilingualism in Neoliberal America
- 5. Global English and the Predicament of Monolingual Multiculturalism
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index