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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le-Khac, Long, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 247 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America reveals the intertwined story of contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary aesthetic. Their transfictional literature creates expansive imagined worlds in which distinct stories coexist, offering artistic shape to their linked political and economic struggles. Long Le-Khac explores the work of writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Karen Tei Yamashita, Junot Díaz, and Aimee Phan. He shows how their fictions capture the uneven economic opportunities of the post–civil rights era, the Cold War as it exploded across Asia and Latin America, and the Asian and Latin American labor flows powering global capitalism today. Read together, Asian American and Latinx literatures convey astonishing diversity and untapped possibilities for coalition within the United States' fastest-growing immigrant and minority communities; to understand the changing shape of these communities we must see how they have formed in relation to each other. As the U.S. population approaches a minority-majority threshold, we urgently need methods that can look across the divisions and unequal positions of the racial system. Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America leads the way with a vision for the future built on panethnic and cross-racial solidarity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction. A TRANSFICTIONAL SOLIDARITY

Part I. FORMS AND FORMATIONS

Chapter 1. DECENTERING BILDUNGSROMAN HERMENEUTICS

Chapter 2. NARRATING COLD WAR DISPLACEMENT

Chapter 3. UNSETTLING STRATA AND TYPE

Chapter 4. FORMING PANETHNICITY

Chapter 5. IMAGINING UNITY

Conclusion. A POLITICS OF BEYOND

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5036-1219-8