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Southwest Asia
The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
Chicana/o literature is justly acclaimed for the ways it voices opposition to the dominant Anglo culture, speaking for communities ignored by mainstream American media. Yet the world depicted in these texts is not solely inhabited by Anglos and Chicanos; as this groundbreaking new book shows, Asian characters are cast in peripheral but nonetheless pivotal roles.
Southwest Asia investigates why key Chicana/o writers, including Américo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Méndez, and Virginia Grise, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas. Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue takes our conception of Chicana/o literature as a transnational movement in a new direction, showing that it is not only interested in North-South migrations within the Americas, but is also deeply engaged with East-West interactions across the Pacific. He also raises serious concerns about how these texts invariably marginalize their Asian characters, suggesting that darker legacies of imperialism and exclusion might lurk beneath their utopian visions of a Chicana/o nation.
Southwest Asia provides a fresh take on the Chicana/o literary canon, analyzing how these writers have depicted everything from interracial romances to the wars Americans fought in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. As it examines novels, plays, poems, and short stories, the book makes a compelling case that Chicana/o writers have long been at the forefront of theorizing U.S.–Asian relations.
Author / Editor information
JAYSON GONZALES SAE-SAUE is an assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Reviews
"This impressive and innovative book articulates a critical perspective on Chicana/o studies that is not only sorely needed, but that also points to the interethnic and transnational origins of the field as a productive trajectory forward."
— Maria Herrera Sobek, associate vice chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara"Sae-Saue highlights fascinating cross-racial imaginations that legitimize a broader definition of the Atzlán diaspora … Recommended."
— Choice"Southwest Asia shows how the racial logics and formal features of Chicana/o and Asian American literary cultures intersect in crucial ways, making their representations almost mutually constitutive. At one single stroke, it brilliantly raises the transnational significance of both."
— Ramón Saldívar, Stanford UniversityTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction: The Promise and Problem of Interracial Politics for Chicana/o Culture
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1. Racial Equivalence and the Transpacifi c Geographies of Chicana/o Nationalism in Vietnam Campesino, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, and Pilgrims in Aztlán
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2. Forging and Forgetting Transpacifi c Identities in Américo Paredes’s “Ichiro Kikuchi” and Rolando Hinojosa’s Korean Love Songs
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3. Conquest and Desire: Interracial Sex in Daniel Cano’s Shifting Loyalties and Alfredo Véa’s Gods Go Begging
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4. Through Mexico and into Asia: A Search for Cultural Origins in Rudolfo Anaya’s A Chicano in China
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5. Chinese Immigration, Mixed-Race Families, and China-cana Feminisms in Virginia Grise’s Rasgos asiáticos
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Coda: Chicana/o Studies Th en and Now: Paradigms of Past and Future Critique
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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October 21, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780813577197
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9780813577197
Keywords for this book
asian representation; U.S-Asian relations; Latinx studies; interracial romance; minority literature; political literature; Asian diaspora; historical fiction; north-south migration; cross-cultural encounters; marginalized voices; identity politics; race and ethnicity; cultural hybridity; social critique; ethnic representation; U.S foreign wars; storytelling; transpacific studies; east-west interactions; migration; race; Asia; transnational; Chicanao writers; Chicanao literature; postcolonial studies; U.S imperialism; Korea War; Vietnam war; Japan in literature; power dynamics; politics; hybridity; exclusion; interracial; war narratives; Américo Paredes; Rolando Hinojos; Oscar Acosta; Miguel Méndez; Virginia Grise; literary canon; Chicanao nation
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
