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    Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
    Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
    Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
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    Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging

    By Pamela Thoma

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    Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These “crossover” books—mother-daughter narratives, chick lit, detective fiction, and food writing—attempt to bridge ethnic audiences and a broader reading public. In Asian American Women's Popular Literature, Pamela Thoma considers how these books both depict contemporary American-ness and contribute critically to public dialogue about national belonging.   Novels such as Michelle Yu and Blossom Kan’s China Dolls and Sonia Singh’s Goddess for Hire, or mysteries including Sujata Massey’s Girl in a Box and Suki Kim’s The Interpreter, reveal Asian American women’s ambivalence about the trappings and prescriptions of mainstream American society. Thoma shows how these writers’ works address the various pressures on women to manage their roles in relation to family and finances—reconciling the demands of work, consumer culture, and motherhood—in a neoliberal society.

    A volume in the American Literatures Initiative.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTemple University Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2013
    ISBN9781439910207
    Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
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    Pamela Thoma

    Pamela Thoma is associate professor of English and the director of the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington State University. She specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies and feminist media studies. She is the author of Asian American Women’s Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging (2014) and editor of a forthcoming volume on the fiction of Karen Tei Yamashita. Her essays have been published in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2014), Feminist Media Studies (2009), and Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (2014), edited by Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker.

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