![]() Oxford: Oxford University Press.Ĭhin, Frank, and Jeffery Paul Chan. The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief. ![]() Chinese American Masculinities: From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, translated by Chris Turner. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.īalibar, Étienne. Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875–1980. ![]() She then foregrounds the myriad reasons why the inclusion of Interior Chinatown on American literature syllabi provides a powerful rhetorical tool for European students to reassess race relations in the contemporary United States by encouraging them to question, for example, Asian American racial, ethnic, and nationalist discourses and identities both in the dominant media and in relation to the academic knowledge that has been fabricated around who gets to be an American. ![]() Stilley considers Yu’s novel in terms of its direct challenges to the limits of Western ethnocentricity, in particular its effectiveness as fiction in decolonising epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production by recuperating Asian American subjectivity and redefining Chinatown as a counter-pedagogical space. This chapter examines Charles Yu’s award-winning Interior Chinatown (2020) as an evaluative tool of race relations in the contemporary United States. ![]()
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