{"product_id":"latinasian-cartographies-history-writing-and-the-national-imaginary-hardback-9780813589855","title":"LatinAsian Cartographies; History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (Hardback) 9780813589855","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLatinAsian Cartographies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory, Writing, and the National Imaginary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Thananopavarn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813589855\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 3 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.413 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLatinAsian Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent book that widens the scope of Asian American, Latin American, and American studies. Thananopavarn's comparative study allows us to engage with and learn about the complexities of globalization, transnational migration, citizenship, and belonging.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Rudy Guevarra Jr. (author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLatinAsian Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e intertwines readings of Asian American and Latina\/o literature with fascinating historical accounts that often illuminate the urgency of cultural critique for current racial and national politics.\" \u003c\/div\u003e - Crystal Parikh (author of Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Across the globe, various social movements\u003cbr\u003e have started to question traditional historical narratives and figures. In this context, \u003ci\u003eLatinAsian Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e is an interesting and relevant book.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Nicolás Camino (H-Net)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLatinAsian Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eLatinAsian Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately reimagines national narratives in a way that transforms dominant ideas of what it means to be American.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Introduction: Asian American and Latina\/o Voices\u003cbr\u003e Writing History, Remapping Nation 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 United States Imperialism and Structural\u003cbr\u003e Violence in the Borderlands 31\u003cbr\u003e 2 Battle on the Homefront: World War II\u003cbr\u003e and Patriotic Racism 56\u003cbr\u003e 3 Cold War Epistemologies 82\u003cbr\u003e 4 Globalization and Military Violence\u003cbr\u003e in the LatinAsian Contact Zone 107\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: American Studies Beyond National Borders 133\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 149\u003cbr\u003e Notes 151\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 175\u003cbr\u003e Index 185 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563715653912,"sku":"9780813589855","price":91.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/latinasian-cartographies-history-writing-and-the-national-imaginary-hardback-9780813589855","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}