Susan Thananopavarn

Latinasian Cartographies

History, Writing, and the National Imaginary

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780813589848
• ISBN-10: 0813589843
• Artikelnr.: 50990276

Autorenporträt

SUSAN THANANOPAVARN is a lecturing fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

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