The Inter-ethnic Return
Racial and Cultural Multiplicity in Foundational Asian American and Chicana/o Literatures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jayson Ty Gonzales Sae-Saue (Southern Methodist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 267-282 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/147757010x12773889526028 |
| OpenAlex | W2053606243 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article advocates that inter-ethnic contact and cross-cultural traffic condition the possibilities of imagining Asian American and Chicana/o identities, respectively, in early Asian American and Chicana/o novels. Using Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street as my primary examples, I demonstrate how early Asian American and Chicana/o literatures that have been critiqued almost exclusively within binary analytic paradigms articulate identity within a diverse field of racial and cultural differences. I argue that, in order to regard properly the inter-ethnic trends of recent US fiction and to liberate foundational minority texts from ethnic specific enclaves within US institutions, scholars need to recognize how negotiating a diverse spectrum of racial and cultural distinctions is a critical element of the early Asian American and Chicana/o literary imagination
Asian americans · Ethnic group · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies
A poetics of women's autobiography
Feminism on the Border
Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiographical Controversy
The Interethnic Imaginiation
Chicano narrative
Sexual Naturalization
In Search of Identity in Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
The Icicle in the Desert
Melancholic Maladies
Crossroads of Cultures
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |