JAYSON GONZALES SAE-SAUE is an assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Promise and Problem of Interracial Politics for Chicana/o Culture1         Racial Equivalence and the Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Nationalism in Vietnam Campesino, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, and Pilgrims in AztlÁn2         Forging and Forgetting Transpacific Identities in AmÉrico Paredes’s “Ichiro Kikuchi” and Rolando Hinojosa’s Korean Love Songs3         Conquest and Desire: Interracial Sex in Daniel Cano’s Shifting Loyalties and Alfredo VÉa’s Gods Go Begging4         Through Mexico and Into Asia: A Search for Cultural Origins in Rudolfo Anaya’s A Chicano in China5         Chinese Immigration, Mixed-Race Families, and China-cana Feminisms in Virginia Grise’s Rasgos AsiÁticosCoda: Chicano Studies Then and Now: Paradigms of Past and Future Critique            Notes            Bibliography            Index

"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 of the AtzlÁn diaspora … Recommended." (Choice) "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)