Abstract
This article examines the construction of Asians in two contemporary Argentine novels, Un chino en bicicleta (2007) by Ariel Magnus and María Domecq (2007) by Juan Forn. The novels emerge from Argentina's recent “multicultural turn” that has produced an increased visibility of ethnic minorities previously marginalized by a dominant discourse that had insisted on the nation's whiteness. In this context, they also belong to a group of novels published post-2001 that attempts to challenge Argentina's foundational fictions through an unprecedented protagonism of racial others. This article examines how Asian-Argentines are being imagined and represented along changing notions of nationhood and within Argentina's emerging multiculturalism. Furthermore, by analyzing the two novels’ hyperbolic orientalism and deliberate fictionality, this article argues that they offer a critique of a multiculturalism that continues to grant unequal power to the dominant culture.
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