"This impressive and innovative book articulates a critical perspective on Chicana/o studies that is not only sorely needed, but that also points to the interethnic and transnational origins of the field as a productive trajectory forward."
Maria Herrera Sobek
associate vice chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Sae-Saue highlights fascinating cross-racial imaginations that legitimize a broader definition ... Read moreof the Atzlán diaspora … Recommended."
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"Southwest Asia shows how the racial logics and formal features of Chicana/o and Asian American literary cultures intersect in crucial ways, making their representations almost mutually constitutive. At one single stroke, it brilliantly raises the transnational significance of both."
Ramón Saldívar
Stanford University
"Southwest Asia convincingly demonstrates how crucial a transpacific imaginary, one that continually relies on figures, characters, and geographies derived from the presence of Asia in the Americas, has been to the vitality of Chicana/o cultural politics" "Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue’s Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature contributes in a new and fascinating way to this growing body of work"
Crystal Parikh
NUP - Western American Literature
"Sae-Saue highlights fascinating cross-racial imaginations that legitimize a broader definition of the Atzlán diaspora … Recommended."
Choice
"This impressive and innovative book articulates a critical perspective on Chicana/o studies that is not only sorely needed, but that also points to the interethnic and transnational origins of the field as a productive trajectory forward."
Maria Herrera Sobek
associate vice chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Southwest Asia shows how the racial logics and formal features of Chicana/o and Asian American literary cultures intersect in crucial ways, making their representations almost mutually constitutive. At one single stroke, it brilliantly raises the transnational significance of both."
Ramón Saldívar
Stanford University
"Southwest Asia convincingly demonstrates how crucial a transpacific imaginary, one that continually relies on figures, characters, and geographies derived from the presence of Asia in the Americas, has been to the vitality of Chicana/o cultural politics" "Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue’s Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature contributes in a new and fascinating way to this growing body of work"
Crystal Parikh
NUP - Western American Literature
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