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i so so appreciate what Nguyen is doing with this book, and that he did it in the early 2000s. i'm less interested in how he's reading the literature, but more in the intervention he's making into asian american studies/politics. he is calling out this infuriatingly moderate, navel-gazing strain of asian american politics, that is very much a part of asian american cultural production. even today, our public discourse has not gotten very far beyond the model minority myth. listen to Viet Thanh N...
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It's been a while since I've read something this dense and scholarly. I felt like I was back in school, reading about hegemony and all that. But I liked it. It was so insightful to read about Asian American novels of the early and mid-1900s thru the 00s and the critique on the model minority discourse.
Drawing on the diverse, complex history of Asian American literature, Viet Thanh Nguyen provides us with criticism to transition us into the future of Asian American discourse. It's genius. Without acknowledging the information stated in this criticism, our body is destined to remain commodified under capitalism and ultimately suffer. Please, receive his message and rise beyond the barriers that seem to hold us stagnant. We need more analysis like this circulating in our communities. The Asian A...
