LatinAsian Cartographies : History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States)

Thananopavarn, Susan

Rutgers University Press（2018/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780813589848
• DDC分類 810.9868073

Full 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.   
 

Contents

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