New PDF release: Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o

By Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue

Chicana/o literature is justly acclaimed for the methods it voices competition to the dominant Anglo tradition, conversing for groups overlooked through mainstream American media. but the realm depicted in those texts isn't exclusively inhabited via Anglos and Chicanos; as this groundbreaking new ebook exhibits, Asian characters are forged in peripheral yet still pivotal roles.

Southwest Asia investigates why key Chicana/o writers, together with Américo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Méndez, and Virginia Grise, from the Nineteen Fifties to the current day, have many times referenced Asian humans and locations during articulating their political principles. Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue takes our belief of Chicana/o literature as a transnational flow in a brand new course, displaying that it's not purely drawn to North-South migrations in the Americas, yet can be deeply engaged with East-West interactions around the Pacific. He additionally increases severe matters approximately how those texts at all times marginalize their Asian characters, suggesting that darker legacies of imperialism and exclusion may lurk underneath their utopian visions of a Chicana/o nation.

Southwest Asia presents a clean tackle the Chicana/o literary canon, studying how those writers have depicted every little thing from interracial romances to the wars american citizens fought in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. As it examines novels, performs, poems, and brief tales, the ebook makes a compelling case that Chicana/o writers have lengthy been on the vanguard of theorizing U.S.–Asian relations.

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