Bilingual Brokers : Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital /

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Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lim, Jeehyun, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Bilingualism > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : bilingual personhood and the cultural politics of Asian American and Latino literature
  • 1. Cultural brokers in interwar orientalism
  • 2. Bilingual personhood and the American dream
  • 3. Schooling bilinguals in and against multiculturalism
  • 4. Dormant bilingualism in neoliberal America
  • 5. Global English and the predicament of monolingual multiculturalism
  • Epilogue : the future of bilingual brokering.

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