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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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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
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