Complicating Culture and Difference: Situating Asian American Youth Identities in Lisa Yee's "Millicent Min," "Girl Genius" and "Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time"

Autor/in	Endo, Rachel
Titel	Complicating Culture and Difference: Situating Asian American Youth Identities in Lisa Yee's "Millicent Min," "Girl Genius" and "Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 40 (2009) 3, S.235-249 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-009-9085-0
Schlagwörter	Asian Americans; Youth; Adolescent Literature; Identification; Culture; Differences; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; literatur; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Kultur; Unterscheiden; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	This review situates how culture, difference, and identity are discursively constructed in "Millicent Min, Girl Genius" and "Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time," two award-winning books written by critically acclaimed Asian American author Lisa Yee. Using contextual literacy approaches, the characters, cultural motifs, and physical settings in these texts are deconstructed to explore the nuances of Asian American youth identities that intersect along the lines of class, gender, and race. This review ends by offering teaching strategies for explicating Asian American young adult literature to critically investigate the representations of Asian American counter-narratives, experiences, and youth cultures. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10