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2024-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/10195
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My dissertation, Family Across the Seas: Asian Diasporas in the Americas, explores literary depictions of Asian immigration history in contemporary women’s literature and creates conversations between Caribbean literature, Asian American literature, and Latinx literature. This dissertation compares multigenerational literary works that portray extended depictions of Asian Latin American and Asian Latinx immigrant experiences. My dissertation draws on literary works from Caribbean literature (Mayra Montero’s Como un mensajero tuyo), Latinx literature (Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting; Angie Cruz’s Let It Rain Coffee), and Asian American literature (Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not the Heart; Karen Tei Yamashita’s Brazil-Marú and Circle K Cycles). Through a close reading of multigenerational literature on Asian (Latin) American immigrant experiences, my dissertation examines how literature becomes an ideological tool for writers to depict the experiences of Asians and the Asian diasporas in the Americas and their negotiations of identity and belonging. This dissertation highlights the overlapping and intertwined histories of the Spanish and U.S. empires, the transoceanic crossings of people of Asian ancestry, and the racialization of Asians in the Americas. In my dissertation, I extend the geographical scope of “America” to “the Americas,” which include the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. By doing so, I acknowledge the historical connection between Asia and the Americas. Using Junyoung Verónica Kim’s Asia–Latin America as a method, the dissertation centers on the Global South and literary representations of Asian immigration experiences in the Americas. This dissertation engages with history and existing works on the Asian presence through the analysis of the multigenerational literature.
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