Overview

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.  

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Author:   Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9780813577173

ISBN 10:   0813577179
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   17 June 2016
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

            AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Promise and Problem of Interracial Politics for Chicana/o Culture1         Racial Equivalence and the Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Nationalism in Vietnam Campesino, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, and Pilgrims in Aztlán2         Forging and Forgetting Transpacific Identities in Américo Paredes’s “Ichiro Kikuchi” and Rolando Hinojosa’s Korean Love Songs3         Conquest and Desire: Interracial Sex in Daniel Cano’s Shifting Loyalties and Alfredo Véa’s Gods Go Begging4         Through Mexico and Into Asia: A Search for Cultural Origins in Rudolfo Anaya’s A Chicano in China5         Chinese Immigration, Mixed-Race Families, and China-cana Feminisms in Virginia Grise’s Rasgos AsiáticosCoda: Chicano Studies Then and Now: Paradigms of Past and Future Critique            Notes            Bibliography            Index 

Reviews

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. --Ramon Saldivar Stanford University

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

Author Information

JAYSON GONZALES SAE-SAUE is an assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. 

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