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Book SynopsisIn fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their "model minority" status and the contested nature of citizenship
Trade Review"Cathy Schlund-Vials's timely and thoughtful book...probes into what it might mean for Asian American literary studies if the trope of naturalization were the hinge on which studies of Asian American racialization were to pivot... One of the multiple strengths of Schlund-Vials's work is her ability to negotiate thorny debates within Asian American literary studies... [Schlund-Vials's] stunning approach to negotiating difference puts [her] work at the center of emergent debates on how and where an attention to comparative modes of analyses can transform the paradigms of Asian American literary analysis... Modeling Citizenship does for Asian American literary studies what Jonathan Freedman's Klezmer America does for Jewish American literary studies." - Amerasia 37:2, 2011
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. "WHO MAY BE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES": CITIZENSHIP MODELS IN EDITH MAUDE EATON AND ABRAHAM CAHAN 2. INTERRUPTED ALLEGIANCES: INDIVISIBILITY AND TRANSNATIONAL PLEDGES 3. UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN CITIZENSHIPS: VISIONS AND REVISIONS OF THE 'PROMISED LAND' 4. READING AND WRITING AMERICA: BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S JASMINE AND EVA HOFFMAN'S LOST IN TRANSLATION 5. DEMARCATING THE NATION: NATURALIZING COLD WAR LEGACIES AND WAR ON TERROR POLICIES Epilogue Endnotes
