Multiethnic American fiction frequently centers “hybrid” bodies within locales and stories that draw on multiple ethnicities, languages, and national traditions. By focusing on these bodies, it challenges a national aesthetic formalism that would command conformity and assimilation, unearthing the hybrid genealogies that subtend embodiment across borders. Put differently, by representing embodiments that derive meaning from the interstitial spaces between national projects, such literature decolonializes the seemingly constitutive relationship between the nation-state and the bodies that compose the populations subjected to its political mandates. “Multiethnic” as a literary category contravenes any articulation of a cohesive national identity grounded in notions of the body with faithful monolithic origins.