Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America

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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.

Author(s): Long Le-Khac
Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2020

Language: English
Pages: 264
City: Stanford

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: A Transfictional Solidarity
PART I: FORMS AND FORMATIONS
1 Decentering Bildungsroman Hermeneutics: Cisneros, Kingston, and Post–Civil Rights Mobility
2 Narrating Cold War Displacement: Junot Díaz and Aimee Phan Trace the Migrations
of U.S. Empire
3 Unsettling Strata and Type: Divided Communities of Neoliberal Immigration
in Karma and The People of Paper
PART II: PANETHNIC FICTIONS
4 Forming Panethnicity: The Book of Unknown Americans and the Comparative
Work of Latinidad
5 Imagining Unity: I Hotel and the Utopian Horizons of Asian America
CONCLUSION: A Politics of Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
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