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Everything Your Heart Desires: The Limits and Possibilities of Consumer Citizenship

Landis, Winona L
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7484-4981
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375974591

Abstract Details

2013, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis project examines the notion of "consumer citizenship" as defined by cultural theorist Nestor Garcia Canclini and the ways in which it is illustrated or enacted within the cultural products (texts, music, etc.) of Asian Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first century. More specifically, this project explores the ways in which Asian Americans create a space for themselves in contemporary society through the production and consumption of material and cultural goods. This analysis demonstrates how this "consumer citizenship" can be limiting for minority groups, while at the same time enabling them to craft alternative subjectivities in reaction to conventional consumer culture. In addition, this project analyzes Asian American texts in conjunction with those produced by members of other minority groups, such as Latino/as, in order to demonstrate moments of coalitional possibility within the realm of consumer citizenship.
Yu-Fang Cho (Committee Chair)
Julie Minich (Committee Member)
Anita Mannur (Committee Member)
Asian American Studies; Literature
Citizenship; Consumerism; Asian American Studies; Comparative Racialization; Pop Culture

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  • Landis, W. L. (2013). Everything Your Heart Desires: The Limits and Possibilities of Consumer Citizenship [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375974591

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Landis, Winona. Everything Your Heart Desires: The Limits and Possibilities of Consumer Citizenship. 2013. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375974591.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Landis, Winona. "Everything Your Heart Desires: The Limits and Possibilities of Consumer Citizenship." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375974591

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