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2 books match the query 'Le, Quynh Nhu'
Our Southern Accents
Asian American Voices in the U.S. SouthThao Le-Thanh Ha
Rutgers University Press, 2027
This powerful anthology centers Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in the U.S. South, tracing their histories, struggles, and cultural impact. From early settlements to present day challenges, it reimagines the South through stories of resilience, identity, and belonging that have long been overlooked.
Unsettled Solidarities
Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the AméricasQuynh Nhu Le
Temple University Press, 2019
Unsettled Solidarities examines contemporary Asian and Indigenous cross-representations within different settler states in the Américas. Quynh Nhu Le looks at literary works by both groups alongside public apologies, interviews, and hemispheric race theories to trace cross-community tensions and possibilities for solidarities amidst the uneven imposition of racialization and settler colonization.
Contrasting texts such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men with Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi, and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, among others, Le reveals how settler colonialism persists through the liberal ideological structuring or incorporation of critical and political resistance. She illuminates the tense collisions of Asian and Indigenous movements from the heroic/warrior traditions, reparations and redress, and transnational/cross-racial mobilization against global capital to mixed-race narratives.
Reading these tensions as formed through the unstable grammatical and emotional economies of liberalism, Le frames settler colonialism as a process that is invoked and yet ruptured by Asian and Indigenous peoples. In analyzing Asian/Indigenous crossings in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, Unsettled Solidarities conveys the logics and instabilities that connect these settler empires.