TY - BOOK AU - Le-Khac,Long TI - Giving form to an Asian and Latinx America /Long Le-Khac T2 - Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity SN - 9781503612198 AV - PS153 .G585 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - American fiction KW - Asian American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Hispanic American authors KW - Minority authors KW - Asian Americans in literature KW - Hispanic Americans in literature KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2389766&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -