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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.

Asian Americans in literature. --- Asians in literature. --- Asian Americans --- Asians --- Model minority stereotype. --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity. --- Race identity --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Orientals --- Ethnology

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Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.

Social Science --- Ethnic Studies --- American --- Asian American Studies --- Literary Criticism --- Comics & Graphic Novels --- Asian American

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The nine essays in Asian North American Identities explore how Asian North Americans are no longer caught between worlds of the old and the new, the east and the west, and the south and the north. Moving beyond national and diasporic models of ethnic identity to focus on the individual feelings and experiences of those who are not part of a dominant white majority, the essays collected here draw from a wide range of sources, including novels, art, photography, poetry, cinema, theatre, and popular culture

Race in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Asian Americans in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Asian Americans --- Asians --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. --- Canadian literature --- American literature --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- Intellectual life. --- Asian authors --- History and criticism. --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature --- Canada --- Intellectual life --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Asian Americans in literature --- Group identity in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Race in literature --- Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chi, Tseng Kwong --- Kim, Myung Mi --- Rush Hour (Motion picture) --- Keller, Nora Okja --- Lee, Chang-rae --- Suleri, Sara --- Yamashita, Karen Tei