Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia)

✍ Scribed by Axel Gasquet (editor), Gorica Majstorovic (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Cultural and Literary Interactions Between Asia and Latin America
On the Contact Between the Two Worlds
Overview of Parts and Chapters Content
References
Part I: Asian Hybrid Identities and Latin American Transnational Narratives
Chapter 2: (Trans)National Narratives of Identity in Federico Jeanmarie’s Tacos Altos (2016)
References
Chapter 3: Identity and Poetic Memory in Lina Meruane’s Volverse Palestina
Introduction
Palestinian Diaspora in Chile
Antecedents to Becoming/Returning
Traveling Identities
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Hybrid Identities: Mexico and the Middle East in Memoria de Líbano by Carlos Martínez Assad and Casa Damasco by Maruan Soto Antaki
Theoretical Framework
Memoria de Líbano
Casa Damasco
References
Part II: Reception and Translations of Latin American Writers in Asia
Chapter 5: Shared Neoliberalisms: The Cultural Affects of the Contemporary Pacific
References
Chapter 6: Fragile Bridges: Translation Theory and Translation Practices in Contemporary Transpacific Literature
Fragile Metaphors
Absent Mothers
Multidirectional Tilt
Revised Architecture
References
Chapter 7: Reception of Chilean Literature and South Korean Intellectual Genealogy
Persistence of Memory
South Korean Readers’ Horizon of Expectation and the Chilean Coup
Neruda and a Genealogy of “Subversive” Intellectuals
Another Intellectual Genealogy and Latin America
References
Part III: Diffraction Worlds of Nikkei Identities
Chapter 8: Biopolitics, Orientalism, and the Asian Immigrant as Monster in Salazar’s La medianoche del japonés and Rodríguez’s Asesinato en una lavandería china
Japanese Monstrosity in Jorge Salazar’s La medianoche del japonés
Chinese Vampires in Asesinato en una lavandería china
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Militancy and Imperial Masculinity in Sugi Takeo’s “Revenge” and Vicente Amorim’s Dirty Hearts
References
Chapter 10: Quiet Revenges: The Infinite Intensity of the Silenced History of Japanese Peruvians in Carlos Yushimito del Valle’s “Ciudad de Cristal”
Introduction: Yushimito as a “Permanent Traveler”
The Nomadic “War Machine”: Between Liberation and Cooptation
Against the Main Plot of a Revenge Story in “Ciudad de Cristal”
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: The Sea and Poison: Shusaku Endo’s Prelude to Silence
References
Part IV: Crossroads of Asia-Latin American Narratives and Travel Writing
Chapter 12: The Peripheral Spanish World in the Antipodes: The Filipino T. H. Pardo de Tavera in the Centennial Argentina
Social and Urban Footprints
Remarks About the Argentine Socio-economic Model
A Radiant Future
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: José Rizal and the Foundational Novels of Latin America
Literature and Nation-Building in the Philippines: The Ilustrados
Ninay as a Precedent of Noli Me Tangere
Latin American Fictions and Romantic Imagination
Conclusion
References
Chapter 14: Is It Not So Easy to Go from West to East? A Political View of Cecília Meireles in India
Supporter of a “True Internationalism”?
Solving Problems in Its Own Way
Concluding Remarks: An Epistemology of the South?
References
Chapter 15: Orientalism Expanded? Latin American Travel Narratives Heading East
Leaving Home
The “Zero Chronotope”
Heading East
We and the “Others”
The Unspeakable, the Silent Other
And Back West
References
Author Index
Place Index