Giving form to an Asian and Latinx America /Long Le-Khac.

Le-Khac, Long,

Giving form to an Asian and Latinx America /Long Le-Khac. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations - Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: A transfictional solidarity -- Decentering bildungsroman hermeneutics : Cisneros, Kingston, and post-civil rights mobility -- Narrating Cold War displacement : Junot Díaz and Aimee Phan trace the migrations of U.S. empire -- Unsettling strata and type : divided communities of neoliberal immigration in Karma and The people of paper -- Forming panethnicity : The book of unknown Americans and the comparative work of Latinidad -- Imagining unity : I Hotel and the utopian horizons of Asian America -- Conclusion: A politics of beyond.

"Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America tells the story of the making of a shared Latinx and Asian America over the past fifty years. Historically this solidarity has been difficult to see because Asian and Latinx immigrants have often been described in opposing terms of desirability (model minority versus "illegal" immigrant). However, by looking at similarities in Latinx and Asian American literatures, Long Le-Khac reveals their entangled histories and the ways in which these groups have formed in relation to one another"--



9781503612198

2019031951


American fiction--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS153 / .G585 2020 PS153