@article{438240, author = {Ninh, Erin KhuĂȘ.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438240}, title = {Ingratitude the debt-bound daughter in Asian American literature / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {New York University Press,}, abstract = {Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, Erin KhuĂȘ 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.}, recid = {438240}, pages = {1 online resource (vii, 207 p.)}, address = {New York :}, year = {2011}, }