Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature
By Erin Khuê Ninh.
Description
Anger and bitterness pervade many a narrative by second-generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, erin Khue 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 King...
ISBN(s)
0814758452, 9780814758458
