TY - BOOK AU - Le-Khac,Long TI - Giving form to an Asian and Latinx America T2 - Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity SN - 1503612198 AV - PS153.A84 U1 - 813/.0095073 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Stanford PB - Stanford University Press KW - American fiction KW - Asian American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Hispanic American authors KW - Minority authors KW - Asian Americans in literature KW - Hispanic Americans in literature KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Roman américain KW - Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Auteurs américains d'origine latino-américaine KW - Auteurs issus des minorités KW - Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature KW - Américains d'origine latino-américaine dans la littérature KW - Immigrants dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : a transfictional solidarity -- Decentering bildungsroman germeneutics : Cisneros, Kingston, and post-civil rights mobility -- Narrating Cold War displacement : Junot Díaz and Aimee Phan trace the migrations of U.S. empire -- Unsettling strata and type : divided communities of neoliberal immigration in Karma and The people of paper -- Forming panethnicity : The book of unknown Americans and the comparative work of Latinidad -- Imagining unity : I Hotel and the utopian horizons of Asian America -- Conclusion : a politics of beyond N2 - "Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America tells the story of the making of a shared Latinx and Asian America over the past fifty years. Historically this solidarity has been difficult to see because Asian and Latinx immigrants have often been described in opposing terms of desirability (model minority versus "illegal" immigrant). However, by looking at similarities in Latinx and Asian American literatures, Long Le-Khac reveals their entangled histories and the ways in which these groups have formed in relation to one another"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2389766 ER -