| Latinasian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary Contributor(s): Thananopavarn, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813589843 ISBN-13: 9780813589848 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 810.986 |
| LCCN: 2017012060 |
| Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 7.73" W x 9.22" (0.62 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence in the United States, although often considered marginal in discourses of American history and nationhood, is in fact crucial to understanding how national identity has been constructed historically and continues to be constructed in the present day. Thananopavarn creates a new "LatinAsian" view of the United States that emphasizes previously suppressed aspects of national history, including imperialism, domestic racism during World War II, Cold War operations in Latin America and Asia, and the politics of borders in an age of globalization. LatinAsian Cartographies ultimately reimagines national narratives in a way that transforms dominant ideas of what it means to be American. |