Abstract
In Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority, Eleanor Ty analyzes a broad selection of twenty-first century Asian American and Asian Canadian texts whose genres include, as she describes them, “graphic fiction, graphic biography, memoir, play, puppet performance, postmodern novel, and film” (25). The slimness of the volume (one in “The Asian American Experience” series, edited by Eiichiro Azuma, Jigna Desai, Martin Manalansan IV, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David K. Yoo) belies the impressive ground that the author covers as she examines tensions between long-held notions of Asian Americans and Asian Canadians as the “model minority” and the day-to-day, lived realities of the individuals to whom the phrase is routinely affixed. As with her previous contributions to Asian North American studies – perhaps most notably Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (2010) and The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives (2004) – Ty’s new book is compelling and timely, at once rigorous and readable.
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