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Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities

- The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative
Af: Heidi Kim Engelsk Paperback

Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities

- The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative
Af: Heidi Kim Engelsk Paperback
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In the Cold War era, Chinese Americans were caught in a double-bind. The widespread stigma of illegal immigration, as it was often called, was most easily countered with the model minority, assimilating and forming nuclear families, but that in turn led to further stereotypes. In Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities, Heidi Kim investigates how Chinese American writers navigated a strategy to normalize and justify the Chinese presence during a time when fears of Communism ran high.

Kim explores how writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. Lee, among others, addressed issues of history, family, blood purity, and law through then-groundbreaking novels and memoirs. Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities also uses legal cases, immigration documents, and law as well as mass media coverage to illustrate how writers constructed stories in relation to the political structures that allowed or disallowed their presence, their citizenship, and their blended identity. 

Kim illuminates the rapidly shifting political and social pressures on Chinese American authors who selectively concealed, revealed, and reconstructed issues of citizenship, belonging, and inclusion in their writing.

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In the Cold War era, Chinese Americans were caught in a double-bind. The widespread stigma of illegal immigration, as it was often called, was most easily countered with the model minority, assimilating and forming nuclear families, but that in turn led to further stereotypes. In Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities, Heidi Kim investigates how Chinese American writers navigated a strategy to normalize and justify the Chinese presence during a time when fears of Communism ran high.

Kim explores how writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. Lee, among others, addressed issues of history, family, blood purity, and law through then-groundbreaking novels and memoirs. Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities also uses legal cases, immigration documents, and law as well as mass media coverage to illustrate how writers constructed stories in relation to the political structures that allowed or disallowed their presence, their citizenship, and their blended identity. 

Kim illuminates the rapidly shifting political and social pressures on Chinese American authors who selectively concealed, revealed, and reconstructed issues of citizenship, belonging, and inclusion in their writing.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 260
ISBN-13: 9781439919026
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 143991902X
Udg. Dato: 12 feb 2021
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Temple University Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato: 12 feb 2021
Forfatter(e): Heidi Kim
Forfatter(e) Heidi Kim


Kategori Relating to Asian American people


ISBN-13 9781439919026


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 260


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 12 feb 2021


Oplagsdato 12 feb 2021


Forlag Temple University Press,U.S.

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