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ebook Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority · Asian American Experience

By Eleanor Ty

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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 prioritizing 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.| Cover Title Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Precarity and the Pursuit of Unhappiness 2. Que(e)rying the American Dream in Films of the Early Twenty-First Century 3. Haunted Memories, Spaces, and Trauma: The Unsuccessful Immigrant 4. Representations of Aging in Asian Canadian Performance 5. Work, Depression, Failure 6. Gender, Post-9/11, and Ugly Feelings Coda Works Cited Index | 2017- 2018 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Non-Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association — the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
|Eleanor Ty is a professor of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. She is the author of Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives and coeditor of Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory.
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