The souls of yellow folk :essays

by
Yang, Wesley. author.
Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Subjects
Asian Americans.(DLC)sh85008644
United StatesRace relations(DLC)sj2021061712
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Publisher and Date
New York :W.W. Norton & Company,[2018]
©2018
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393241747.
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0393241742.
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9780393357554.
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0393357554.
Library of Congress Call Number
E184.A75Y38 2018
Description
xiv, 215 pages ;22 cm
Contents (as listed on item)
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System Control Number
(OCoLC)1061148847
SummaryPresents a collection of essays, including "The Face of Sueng-Hui Cho," in which the author explores the logic of the Virginia Tech shooter.
Summary"The National Magazine Award-winning writers debut collection of incisive, stylish essays on race and gender. One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decades worth of cult-reputation essays-it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin zombies, and immigrant strivers, and exposes them to scrutiny, empathy, and polemical force. In his celebrated and prescient essay "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho," Yang explores the deranged logic of the Virginia Tech shooter. In his National Magazine Award-winning "Paper Tigers," he explores the intersection of Asian values and the American dream, and the inner torment of the child exposed to "tiger mother" parenting. And in his close reading of New York Magazines popular Sex Diaries, he was among the first critics to take seriously todays Internet-mediated dating lives. Yang catches these ugly trends early because he has felt at various times implicated in them, and he does not exempt himself from his radical honesty. His essays retain the thrill of discovery, the wary eye of the first explorer, and the rueful admission of the first exposed."--Publisher's website.
Uniform Title
Essays.Selections
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