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Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America reveals the intertwined story of contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary aesthetic. Their transfictional literature creates expansive imagined worlds in which distinct stories coexist, offering artistic shape to their linked political and economic struggles. Long Le-Khac explores the work of writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Karen Tei Yamashita, Junot Díaz, and Aimee Phan. He shows how their fictions capture the uneven economic opportunities of the post–civil rights era, the Cold War as it exploded across Asia and Latin America, and the Asian and Latin American labor flows powering global capitalism today. Read together, Asian American and Latinx literatures convey astonishing diversity and untapped possibilities for coalition within the United States' fastest-growing immigrant and minority communities; to understand the changing shape of these communities we must see how they have formed in relation to each other. As the U.S. population approaches a minority-majority threshold, we urgently need methods that can look across the divisions and unequal positions of the racial system. Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America leads the way with a vision for the future built on panethnic and cross-racial solidarity.

American fiction --- Amerikanisches Englisch. --- Asian Americans in literature. --- Asiaten. --- Chicanos. --- Hispanic Americans in literature. --- Hispanos. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Literatur. --- Minderheitenliteratur. --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism. --- Asian American authors. --- Hispanic American authors --- Hispanic American authors. --- Minority authors --- Minority authors. --- USA. --- Littérature américaine --- Immigrés --- Asian Americans in literature --- Hispanic Americans in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique --- Auteurs d'origine latino-américaine --- Dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Immigrés. --- Dans la littérature. --- American literature --- American literature. --- Asian American. --- Cold War. --- Latinx. --- comparative racialization. --- immigration. --- neoliberalism. --- panethnicity. --- post-civil rights. --- transfictional form. --- Immigrés. --- Dans la littérature.