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Author Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-

Title Modeling citizenship : Jewish and Asian American writing / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 224 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
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Contents Acknowledgments; Preface: Modeling Citizenship and Modeled Selfhood; Introduction: Perpetual Foreigners and Model Minorities: Naturalizing Jewish and Asian Americans; 1. "Who May Be Citizens of the United States": Citizenship Models in Edith Maude Eaton and Abraham Cahan; 2. Interrupted Allegiances: Indivisibilityand 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.
Summary Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law and immigration policy, using the lens of naturalization, not assimilation, to underscore questions of nation-state affiliation and sense of belonging. Modeling Citizenship examines fiction, memoir, and drama to reflect on how the logic of naturalization has operated at discrete moments in the twentiet.
Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
Judaism and literature -- United States.
Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
Judaism in literature.
Jews in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs juifs -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique -- Histoire et critique.
Judaďsme et littérature -- États-Unis.
Américains d'origine asiatique -- Vie intellectuelle.
Judaďsme dans la littérature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
American literature -- Asian American authors
American literature -- Jewish authors
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans -- Intellectual life
Jews in literature
Judaism and literature
Judaism in literature
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- Modeling citizenship. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011 9781439903179 (DLC) 2010042417 (OCoLC)668189898
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