Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections : Latin American Influence in Asia

This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the two regions' historical traumas, cultural identities, indigenous/vernacular traditions, and peripheral global-ness. The volume argues that Asian and Latin American literary and cultural endeavors are part of these regions' broader efforts to search for the forms of modernity that best fit their unique sociohistorical and sociocultural conditions. Jie Lu is Professor of Chinese Studies & Film Studies at the University of the Pacific, USA. Martin Camps is Professor of Spanish at the University of the Pacific, USA. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Constructing a New Field of Inquiry: Latin America in Asian Literary and Cultural Studies (Jie Lu, Martín Camps)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 A Peripheral, South-South Literary Exchange: Balmori and the Reception of Latin American Modernismo in the Philippines (Ignacio López-Calvo)....Pages 21-43 Filipino Poet Jesús Balmori: Testimonials of His Mexican Journey Passing Through Japan (1932–1934) (Axel Gasquet)....Pages 45-66 Transpacific: The Queering of Philippine and Hispanic American Literatures (Eugenio Matibag)....Pages 67-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Disrupted Nationalisms in Times of War: Young Ha-Kim and José Revueltas (Martín Camps)....Pages 103-121 Common Ground: Shared Textuality and Visuality in China and Latin America (Miguel Rojas Sotelo)....Pages 123-159 Korean Reality Television-Travel Shows in Constructing Latin American Cultural Identities (2010–Present) (Min Suk Kim)....Pages 161-183 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Beauty Is a Wound: Retelling Modern Indonesian History Through Magical Realism (Marco Ramírez Rojas)....Pages 187-208 Representing History, Trauma and Marginality in Chinese Magical Realist Films (Jie Lu)....Pages 209-230 Transcontinental Journey of Magical Realism: A Study of Indian Literatures’ Response (Vibha Maurya)....Pages 231-256 Back Matter ....Pages 257-263