Asianfail : narratives of disenchantment and the model minority / Eleanor Ty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958- author.

Series:

Asian American experience.

The Asian American experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Race identity.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Asians--Canada--Ethnic identity.

Asians.

Asians--Race identity--Canada.

Model minority stereotype.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Asian fail

Place of Publication:

Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 prioritising 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Asian/Pacific American Award for Adult Non-Fiction, 2018.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252099380

0252099389

OCLC:

984352530