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Southwest Asia - The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature (Hardcover)
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Southwest Asia - The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
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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 Americo Paredes,
Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Mendez, 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.
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