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This review essay explores how two recent books, Sony Coráñez Bolton's Crip Colony. Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines (2023) and Rosario Hubert’s Disoriented Disciplines. China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2024) undertake the methodological challenges that the study of Asian-Latin(x) American relations presents for literary and cultural studies. Although the two books have different academic audiences and disciplinary trajectories within the US academy, this review essay considers how they redefine notions of literary and cultural circulation or immobility, translation, access, capacity, incapacitation, and infrastructure. The essay argues that we can identify three methodological concerns that address specific problems related to the study of Asian Latinx American relations: an innovative interrogation of the travel literature genre, an understanding of translation as a critical practice that includes non-linguistic aspects and diverse forms of ability and perception, and a particular attention to what Diana Taylor has called the repertoire. Through two divergent comparativist itineraries – Critical Ethnic Studies and World Literature debates – the two books tackle in original ways the conditions of (im)possibility of Asia-Latin America as a geopolitical framework and archival formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]