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

"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 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