{"product_id":"9780814758854","title":"Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In \u003ci\u003eIngratitude\u003c\/i\u003e, erin Khuê Ninh explores this apparent paradox, locating in the origins of these women’s maddeningly immaterial suffering not only racial hegemonies but also the structure of the immigrant family itself. She argues that the filial debt of these women both demands and defies repayment—all the better to produce the docile subjects of a model minority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough readings of Jade Snow Wong’s \u003ci\u003eFifth Chinese Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, Maxine Hong Kingston’s \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e, Evelyn Lau’s \u003ci\u003eRunaway: Diary of a Street Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Liu’s \u003ci\u003eOriental Girls Desire Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, and other texts, Ninh offers not an empirical study of intergenerational conflict so much as an explication of the subjection and psyche of the Asian American daughter. She connects common literary tropes to their theoretical underpinnings in power, profit, and subjection. In so doing, literary criticism crosses over into a kind of collective memoir of the Asian immigrants’ daughter as an analysis not of the daughter, but for and by her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118612889840,"sku":"9780814758854","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814758854_p0.jpg?v=1763749116","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814758854","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}