Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America

"This book makes a significant contribution to the latest understanding of the cultural and historical dialogues between Asia and Latin America. It brilliantly incorporates essays that highlight a current cultural history manifested through global Asian immigration to Latin America; the reception and translation of Latin American narratives in China, India, and Korea; as well as Nikkei identities and travel writing. Written by a group of international and intergenerational scholars, this volume provides original interpretations and revisions of the intersections between East and West."

• Araceli Tinajero, The Graduate Center/The City College of New York, USA

This book brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars on the history of cultural and literary interactions between Asia and Latin America. Through a number of interlinked case studies, contributors examine how different forms of Asia-Latin America dialogues are embedded in various national and local contexts.

The volume is divided in four parts: 1) Asian hybrid identities and Latin American transnational narratives; 2) translations and reception of Latin American narratives in Asia; 3) diffracted worlds of Nikkei identities; and 4) interweaving of Asian and Latin American narratives and travel chronicles. Through the lens of modern globality and Transpacific Studies, the contributions inaugurate a perspective that has, until recently, been neglected by Asian and Latin American cultural studies, while offering an incisive theoretical discussion and detailed textual analysis.

Axel Gasquet is Professor of Latin American literature and culture at University Clermont Auvergne, France, and principal researcher at IHRIM of French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Gorica Majstorovic is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Coordinator at Stockton University, USA.

Autorentext

Axel Gasquet is Professor of Latin American literature and culture at University Clermont Auvergne, France, and principal researcher at IHRIM of French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Gorica Majstorovic is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Coordinator at Stockton University, USA

Zusammenfassung

This book brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars on the history of cultural and literary interactions between Asia and Latin America. Through a number of interlinked case studies, contributors examine how different forms of Asia-Latin America dialogues are embedded in various national and local contexts.

The volume is divided in four parts: 1) Asian hybrid identities and Latin American transnational narratives; 2) translations and reception of Latin American narratives in Asia; 3) diffracted worlds of Nikkei identities; and 4) interweaving of Asian and Latin American narratives and travel chronicles. Through the lens of modern globality and Transpacific Studies, the contributions inaugurate a perspective that has, until recently, been neglected by Asian and Latin American cultural studies, while offering an incisive theoretical discussion and detailed textual analysis.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Cultural and Literary Interactions Between Asia and Latin AmericaPart I Asian Hybrid Identities and Latin American Transnational Narratives2. (Trans)National Narratives of Identity in Federico Jeanmarie's Tacos Altos (2016)3. Identity and Poetic Memory in Lina Meruane's Volverse Palestina*4. Hybrid Identities: Mexico and the Middle East in *Memoria de Líbano by Carlos Martínez Assad and Casa Damasco by Maruan Soto AntakiPart II Reception and Translations of Latin American Writers in Asia5. Shared Neoliberalisms: The Cultural Affects of the Contemporary Pacific6. Fragile Bridges: Translation Theory and Translation Practices in Contemporary Transpacific Literature7. Reception of Chilean Literature and South Korean Intellectual GenealogyPart III Diffraction Worlds of Nikkei Identities8. Biopolitics, Orientalism, and the Asian Immigrant as Monster in Salazar's La medianoche del japonés and Rodríguez's Asesinato en una lavandería china*9. Militancy and Imperial Masculinity in Sugi Takeo's Revenge and Vicente Amorim's *Dirty Hearts*10. Quiet Revenges: The Infinite Intensity of the Silenced History of Japanese Peruvians in Carlos Yushimito del Valle's Ciudad de Cristal11. *The Sea and Poison: Shusaku Endo's Prelude to *Silence*Part IV Crossroads of Asia-Latin American Narratives and Travel Writing12. The Peripheral Spanish World in the Antipodes: The Filipino T. H. Pardo de Tavera in the Centennial Argentina13. José Rizal and the Foundational Novels of Latin America14. Is It Not So Easy to Go from West to East? A Political View of Cecília Meireles in India15. Orientalism Expanded? Latin American Travel Narratives Heading East