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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart (häftad, eng)

McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart (häftad, eng)

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For most of Jen Sookfong Lee''s life, pop culture was an escape from family tragedy and a means of fitting in with the larger culture around her. Anne of Green Gables assured her that, despite losing her father at the age of twelve, one day she might still have the loving family of her dreams, and Princess Diana was proof that maybe there was more to being a good girl after all.

And yet as Jen grew up, she began to recognize the ways in which pop culture was not made for someone like her - the child of Chinese immigrant parents who looked for safety in the invisibility afforded by embracing Model Minority myths. Ranging from the rise of Gwyneth Paltrow, the father-figure familiarity of Bob Ross, and the surprising maternal legacy of the Kardashians, to the long shadow cast by The Joy Luck Club, Jen uses pop culture icons to understand her emotionally fraught upbringing.

She also dissects how pop culture created both unrealistic ideals and harmful stereotypes that would devastate her as she struggled to carve out her own path as an Asian woman, single mother, and writer. With great wit, bracing honesty, and a deep appreciation for the ways culture shapes us, Jen draws direct lines between the spectacle of the popular, the intimacy of our personal bonds, and the social foundations of our collective obsessions.


Format Häftad Omfång 272 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag McClelland & Stewart Inc. Utgivningsdatum 2023-01-17 ISBN 9780771025211

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McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart (häftad, eng)

279 kr

279 kr

Få kvar

Mån, 17 mar - tis, 18 mar


Säker betalning

14-dagars öppet köp


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