Modeling citizenship : Jewish and Asian American writing / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

Judaism and literature--United States.

Judaism and literature.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

Judaism in literature.

Jews in literature.

Asian Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law and immigration policy, using the lens of naturalization, not assimilation, to underscore questions of nation-state affiliation and sense of belonging.Modeling Citizenship examines fiction, memoir, and drama to reflect on how the logic of naturalization has operated at di

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Modeling Citizenship and Modeled Selfhood; Introduction: Perpetual Foreigners and Model Minorities: Naturalizing Jewish and Asian Americans; 1. "Who May Be Citizens of the United States": Citizenship Models in Edith Maude Eaton and Abraham Cahan; 2. Interrupted Allegiances: Indivisibilityand Transnational Pledges; 3. Utopian and Dystopian Citizenships: Visions and Revisions of the "Promised Land"; 4. Reading and Writing America: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation

5. Demarcating the Nation: Naturalizing Cold War Legacies and War on Terror PoliciesEpilogue: "A Sense of Loss and Anomie": Model Minorities and Twenty-First-Century Citizenship; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613133830

9781439903193

1439903190

9781283133838

1283133830

OCLC:

722871602