Latinasian Cartographies - History, Writing, and the National Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor SUSAN THANANOPAVARN is a lecturing fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Klappentext 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 is crucial to understanding how national identity has been constructed. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Asian American and Latina/o Voices Writing History, Remapping Nation 1 1 United States Imperialism and Structural Violence in the Borderlands 31 2 Battle on the Homefront: World War II and Patriotic Racism 56 3 Cold War Epistemologies 82 4 Globalization and Military Violence in the LatinAsian Contact Zone 107 Conclusion: American Studies Beyond National Borders 133 Acknowledgments 149 Notes 151 Works Cited 175 Index 185

Product details

• Authors: Susan Thananopavarn
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2018
• EAN: 9780813589848
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8984-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous