Contributor
Mathison, Ymitri, editor.
ImprintJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Descriptionix, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction / Ymitri Mathison -- The Monkey and the Colonoscopy Machine: On the Destruction of Racism and Stereotype in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and Level Up / Tomo Hattori -- Moving from the Margins: Confronting the Hypersexualization of Asian American Females in Graphic Fiction / Mary J. Henderson Couzelis -- The Productive Pedagogy of Ambiguity in Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons / Jennifer Ho -- Identifying the Filipino American Bildungsroman: Whiteness, Ambivalence, and Masculinity in Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son / Linda Pierce Allen -- Reaching across the Barbed Wire: Interracial Friendships in Young Adult Japanese American Incarceration Literature / Traise Yamamoto -- "It Is Part of Our Adoption Life Journey": Birth Searching and Transnationally Adopted Koreans in Young Adult Fiction / Sarah Park Dahlen -- Consuming Vietnamese America One Bite at a Time: Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Inside Out & Back Again / Lan Dong -- South Asian American Children's Search for Identity in the Aftermath of 9/11 in South Asian American Young Adult Fiction / Hena Ahmad -- The Melting Pot Boiled Over: Hawaiian American Ethnicities and Self-Authorship in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Name Me Nobody and Blu's Hanging / Leah Milne -- Adorable Aloha: Tracing the Tourist Gaze in the American Girl Books / Joy Takako Taylor.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise Yamamoto. Often referred to as the model minority, Asian American children and adolescents feel pressured to perform academically and be disinterested in sports, with the exception of martial arts. Boys are often stereotyped as physically unattractive nerds and girls as petite and beautiful. Many Americans remain unaware of the diversity of ethnicities and races the term Asian American comprises, with Asian American adolescents proving to be more invisible than adults. As a result, Asian American adolescents are continually searching for their identity and own place in American society. For these kids, being or considered to be American becomes a challenge in itself as they assert their Asian and American identities; claim their own ethnic identity, be they immigrant or American-born; and negotiate their ethnic communities. The contributors to Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction focus on moving beyond stereotypes to examine how Asian American children and adolescents define their unique identities. Chapters focus on primary texts from many ethnicities, such as Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, South Asian, and Hawaiian. Individual chapters, crossing cultural, linguistic, and racial boundaries, negotiate the complex terrain of Asian American children's and teenagers' identities. Chapters cover such topics as internalized racism and self-loathing; hyper-sexualization of Asian American females in graphic novels; interracial friendships; transnational adoptions and birth searches; food as a means of assimilation and resistance; commodity racism and the tourist gaze; the hostile and alienating environment generated by the War on Terror; and many other topics."-- Provided by publisher.
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