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Author:

Le-Khac, Long author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 247 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
American fiction--Asian American authors.
American fiction--Hispanic American authors.
American fiction--Minority authors.
Asian Americans in literature.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a transfictional solidarity -- Decentering bildungsroman germeneutics : 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.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity

ISBN:

150361218X
9781503612181
1503611469
9781503611467

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1110434634

LCCN:

2019031950

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)