Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority
Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority
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Abstract
Asianfail examines literary and filmic works by contemporary Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that deal with failure and unhappiness. While the hashtag #Asianfail pokes fun at cultural stereotypes of Asians on social media, the myth of the model minority has serious negative consequences for many young people who feel pressure and anxiety when they do not succeed in professional careers. This book looks at how novelists, such as Ruth Ozeki, Madeleine Thien, Alex Gilvarry, and lê thi diem thúy reveal the "cruel optimism" that characterizes ordinary existence for many people in the 21st century. Films such as The Debut, Red Doors,and Saving Face query immigrant aspirations of the older generation and the feasibility of the American dream. The protagonists in the graphic novels of Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, Keshni Kashyap and Mari Araki express their ugly and painful feelings as they grow up, while Jan Wong and Catherine Hernandez grapple with work and stress-related depression. In Linda Ohama's Obaachan's Garden and Catherine Hernandez' performance, even the aged feel precarity and are burdened with secrets of the past. These works interrogate and expose the limits of our neoliberal notions of the good life and happiness.
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Introduction
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Precarity and the Pursuit of Unhappiness
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Que(e)rying the American Dream in Films of the Early Twenty-First Century
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Haunted Memories, Spaces, and Trauma: The Unsuccessful Immigrant
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Representations of Aging in Asian Canadian Performance
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Work, Depression, Failure
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Gender, Post-9/11, and Ugly Feelings
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