Title Growing up Asian American in young adult fiction / edited by Ymitri Mathison

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) Series Children's literature association series Children's Literature Association series Contents Cover -- GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction -- The Monkey and the Colonoscopy Machine: On the Destruction of Racism and Stereotype in Gene Luen Yangâ#x80;#x99;s American Born Chinese and Level Up -- Moving from the Margins: Confronting the Hypersexualization of Asian American Females in Graphic Fiction -- The Productive Pedagogy of Ambiguity in Lynda Barryâ#x80;#x99;s One Hundred Demons Identifying the Filipino American Bildungsroman: Whiteness, Ambivalence, and Masculinity in Brian Ascalon Roleyâ#x80;#x99;s American SonReaching across the Barbed Wire: Interracial Friendships in Young Adult Japanese American Incarceration Literature -- â#x80;#x9C;It Is Part of Our Adoption Life Journeyâ#x80;#x9D;: Birth Searching and Transnationally Adopted Koreans in Young Adult Fiction -- Consuming Vietnamese America One Bite at a Time: Stealing Buddhaâ#x80;#x99;s Dinner and Inside Out & Back Again South Asian American Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s Search for Identity in the Aftermath of 9/11 in South Asian American Young Adult FictionThe Melting Pot Boiled Over: Hawaiian American Ethnicities and Self-Authorship in Lois-Ann Yamanakaâ#x80;#x99;s Name Me Nobody and Bluâ#x80;#x99;s Hanging -- Adorable Aloha: Tracing the Tourist Gaze in the American Girl Books -- Contributors Summary "Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise Yamamoto. Often referred to as the model minority, Asian American children and adolescents feel pressured to perform academically and be disinterested in sports, with the exception of martial arts. Boys are often stereotyped as physically unattractive nerds and girls as petite and beautiful. Many Americans remain unaware of the diversity of ethnicities and races the term Asian American comprises, with Asian American adolescents proving to be more invisible than adults. As a result, Asian American adolescents are continually searching for their identity and own place in American society. For these kids, being or considered to be American becomes a challenge in itself as they assert their Asian and American identities; claim their own ethnic identity, be they immigrant or American-born; and negotiate their ethnic communities. The contributors to Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction focus on moving beyond stereotypes to examine how Asian American children and adolescents define their unique identities. Chapters focus on primary texts from many ethnicities, such as Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, South Asian, and Hawaiian. Individual chapters, crossing cultural, linguistic, and racial boundaries, negotiate the complex terrain of Asian American children's and teenagers' identities. Chapters cover such topics as internalized racism and self-loathing; hyper-sexualization of Asian American females in graphic novels; interracial friendships; transnational adoptions and birth searches; food as a means of assimilation and resistance; commodity racism and the tourist gaze; the hostile and alienating environment generated by the War on Terror; and many other topics."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2017) Subject Young adult literature, American -- History and criticism Asian Americans in literature. American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism Immigrants in literature. Asian Americans in popular culture. Children's literature, American -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Asian American authors American literature -- Minority authors Asian Americans in literature Asian Americans in popular culture Children's literature, American Immigrants in literature Young adult literature, American Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Mathison, Ymitri, editor LC no. 2017036806 ISBN 9781496815101 1496815106 9781496815088 1496815084

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