Peripheral transmodernities : south-to-south intercultural dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic world and 'the Orient'

This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds. As we see in these essays, the Europeans cultural others (peripheral nations and former colonies) have established an intercultural and intercontinental dialogue among themselves, without feeling the need to resort to the center-metropolis mediation. These South-to-South dialogues tend not to be as asymmetric as the old dialogue between the (former) metropolis (the hegemonic, Eurocentric center) and the colonies. These essays about Hispanic and Latino cultural production (most of them dealing with literature, but some covering urban art, music, and film) provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance. In some of them, we can find peripheral subjectivities perception of other peripheral, racialized, and (post)colonial subjects and their cultures. Theory, Orientalism And A Perspective On Their Place In The Study Of Asians In The Americas / Debra Lee-distefano -- Walking The Talk : Saris, Sarapes, And Elephants In Green Suits / Roshni Rustomji With Luz De La Rosa -- Rewriting Travel Literature : A Cosmopolitan Critique Of Exoticism In Contemporary Latin American Fiction / Rosario Hubert -- Saucheofu : Lizardi's Chinese Utopia In El Periquillo Sarniento / Sandra M. Perez-linggi -- Jose Marti, The Pacific Ocean, And Global Coloniality / Suk Kyun Woo -- Sexualization Of The Oriental Ruins : R.h. Moreno-duran's Mambru, The Colombian Battalian, The Korean War, Picasso And The (marilyn) Monroe Doctrine / Moises Park -- Images Of The Japanese In The Short Stories Of Carlos Yushimito Del Valle / Rebecca Riger Tsurumi -- The Representation Of Japan And Japanese Women In Early Twentieth-century Portuguese And Spanish Fiction And Journals : A Conservative/transgressive Model For Reforming The Nation / Timothy P. Gaster -- Omar Khayyam's Epicureanism : The Spanish Translations Of Rubaiyats (1904-1930) / Axel Gasquet -- Cantar De Mio Cid : Creation Of The Founding Paradigm Of Hispanic Orientalism / Svetlana V. Tyutina -- Fruits Of Culture : The Japanese Haicai/haiku Transplanted To Brazil / Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa -- Travel And Japanese Migration To Brazil In O Sol Se Poe Em Sao Paulo By Bernardo Carvalho / Martin Camps -- A Japanese Brazilian's Musings : Background And Autobiography / Jose I. Suarez -- Imminent Aztlan And Eternal 'ashura' : Visual Urban Mythologies In Los Angeles And Tehran / David Simonowitz -- Korea, The Wandering Signifier In Foundational Chicano Narratives / Jungwon Park -- Borges, Ararou And The Other : An Intercultural Study / Roselia Barragan-ekhause -- Spaces Of Self-representation In Transmodernity : Cheb Balowski's El Moro Rumbero Del Call And Manu Chao / Alicia Ramos-jordan -- A Colonial Western (gran Torino) Versus A Mimetic Parable (invictus) / Marco Valesi. Edited By Ignacio López-calvo. Includes Bibliographical References. TABLE OF CONTENTS 8 INTRODUCTION 12 CHAPTER ONE 22 THEORY, ORIENTALISM AND A PERSPECTIVE ON THEIR PLACE IN THE STUDY OF ASIANS IN THE AMERICAS 23 WALKING THE TALK 34 CHAPTER TWO 52 REWRITING TRAVEL LITERATURE 53 SAUCHEOFÚ 73 JOSÉ MARTÍ, THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND GLOBAL COLONIALITY 92 SEXUALIZATION OF THE ORIENTAL RUINS 106 IMAGES OF THE JAPANESE IN THE SHORT STORIES OF CARLOS YUSHIMITO DEL VALLE 122 CHAPTER THREE 144 THE REPRESENTATION OF JAPAN AND JAPANESE WOMEN IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH FICTION AND JOURNALS 145 OMAR KHAYYAM’S EPICUREANISM 168 CANTAR DE MIO CID 189 CHAPTER FOUR 208 FRUITS OF CULTURE 209 TRAVEL AND JAPANESE MIGRATION TO BRAZIL IN O SOL SE PÕE EM SÃO PAULO BY BERNARDO CARVALHO 225 A JAPANESE BRAZILIAN’S MUSINGS 238 CHAPTER FIVE 250 IMMINENT AZTLÁN AND ETERNAL ‘ASHURA’ 251 KOREA, THE WANDERING SIGNIFIER IN FOUNDATIONAL CHICANO NARRATIVES 275 CHAPTER SIX 292 BORGES, ARAROU AND THE OTHER 293 CHAPTER SEVEN 310 SPACES OF SELF-REPRESENTATION IN TRANSMODERNITY 311 A COLONIAL WESTERN (GRAN TORINO)VERSUS A MIMETIC PARABLE (INVICTUS) 328