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Peripheral Transmodernities

Author: Ignacio López-Calvo

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2012-01-24

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1443837261

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.

Trans-Pacific Encounters

Author: Koichi Hagimoto

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 144389284X

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While the origin of trans-pacific contact between Asia and the New World can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period, it was not until the fifteenth century that communication across the Pacific became constant. Despite this history, the myriad encounters that constitute the basic contours of transpacific studies have often been overshadowed by the traditional emphasis on transatlantic studies. In addition, although socio-political ties between Asia and Latin America have drawn attention among politicians and economists in recent years, there continues to be a critical void in the studies of literary, cultural, and historical relations between the two regions. This book challenges this double negligence, and engages in a global discussion about the relationship between Asia and the Hispanic world, which includes not only Spanish America, but also the Philippines under the Spanish empire. The essays presented in this volume explore the multidimensional nature of the trans-pacific intersection through historical studies, as well as literary and cultural criticism. Topics investigated include, for example, the overlooked aspect of the Hispanic Philippines, the “Orientalized” images of Latin American colonial art, modernista and vanguardista writings about India, and the experience of a Peruvian migrant worker in contemporary Japan. The diverse perspectives that the authors offer create a dialogue with each other, and together provide an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of trans-pacific encounters, both past and present.

Orientaciones transpacíficas

Author: Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1469651904

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Orientaciones transpacificas propone y traza los contornos de una orientacion intelectual hacia el Este y el Sur de Asia en la tradicion intelectual y artistica mexicana de los siglos XX y XXI. El libro abarca un arco temporal amplio, desde el Porfiriato tardio, pasando por los imaginarios culturales del nacionalismo posrevolucionario, hasta la Guerra Fria y la expansion del neoliberalismo en los albores de este nuevo siglo. Torres-Rodriguez demuestra que, aunque despues de la independencia mexicana se corta el importante vinculo comercial y las redes imperiales que mantuvieron materialmente unidos al virreinato de la Nueva Espana con el continente asiatico durante el periodo colonial, el Este y el Sur de Asia continuan constituyendo un punto de referencia crucial a traves del cual la tradicion intelectual mexicana afirma su centralidad global y ancla sus discursos de singularidad cultural y/o excepcion politica. Mas alla de comprender el orientalismo mexicano como una imitacion ornamental o accidental de los archivos orientalistas europeos, Torres-Rodriguez lo reconceptualiza como una orientacion espacial, corporal y geografica enraizada en la propia historia (post)colonial mexicana y en una tradicion transpacifica de larga duracion. Este estudio marca el giro transpacifico en las cronicas de viaje del diario de Jose Juan Tablada, en las fotografias paisajisticas de Manuel Alvarez Bravo, en los ensayos culturales y en las campanas de alfabetizacion de Jose Vasconcelos, en los ensayos marxistas sobre el modo de produccion asiatico de Roger Bartra, en la novela negra de Rafael Bernal, en la opera coral juarense de Marcela Rodriguez y Mario Bellatin y en las instalaciones tijuanenses de Shinpei Takeda. Orientaciones transpacificas revisa el enfasis tradicional en la relacion trasatlantica con Europa y demuestra que es una imaginacion transpacifica y verdaderamente planetaria–en vez de una mera dialectica entre excolonia y metropolis–la que define la conceptualizacion sobre la modernidad cultural y literaria mexicana. Orientaciones transpacificas explora los puntos de interseccion entre el orientalismo mexicano y las ideologias centrales del latinoamericanismo para develar la influencia espectral de Asia en la formacion de definiciones culturales y continentales que son fundamentales para el campo de los estudios latinoamericanos.

The Closed Hand

Author: Rebecca Riger Tsurumi

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1557536074

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In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese community in South America. She analyzes how non-Japanese Peruvian narrators unlock the unspoken attitudes and beliefs about the Japanese held by mainstream Peruvian society, as reflected in works written between 1966 and 2006. Tsurumi explores how these Peruvian literary giants, including Mario Vargas Llosa, Miguel Gutiérrez, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Carmen Ollé, Pilar Dughi, and Mario Bellatin, invented Japanese characters whose cultural differences fascinated and confounded their creators. She compares the outsider views of these Peruvian narrators with the insider perceptions of two Japanese Peruvian poets, José Watanabe and Doris Moromisato, who tap personal experiences and memories to create images that define their identities. The book begins with a brief sociohistorical overview of Japan and Peru, describing the conditions in both nations that resulted in Japanese immigration to Peru and concluding in contemporary times. Tsurumi traces the evolution of the terms "Orient" and "Japanese/Oriental" and the depiction of Asians in Modernista poetry and in later works by Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges. She analyzes the images of the Japanese portrayed in individual works of modern Peruvian narrative, comparing them with those created in Japanese Peruvian poetry. The book concludes with an appendix containing excerpts from Tsurumi's interviews and correspondence in Spanish with writers and poets in Lima and Mexico City.

The Affinity of the Eye

Author: Ignacio López-Calvo

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0816599874

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In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio López-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers’ testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, López-Calvo constructs an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities. With deftly sensitive interviews and comments, he portrays the difficulties of being a Japanese Peruvian. Despite a few notable examples, Asian Peruvians have been excluded from a sense of belonging or national identity in Peru, which provides López-Calvo with the opportunity to record what the community says about their own cultural production. In so doing, López-Calvo challenges fixed notions of Japanese Peruvian identity. The Affinity of the Eye scrutinizes authors such as José Watanabe, Fernando Iwasaki, Augusto Higa, Doris Moromisato, and Carlos Yushimito, discussing their literature and their connections to the past, present, and future. Whether these authors push against or accept what it means to be Japanese Peruvians, they enrich the images and feelings of that experience. Through a close reading of literary and cultural productions, López-Calvo’s analysis challenges and reframes the parameters of being Nikkei in Peru. Covering both Japanese issues in Peru and Peruvian issues in Japan, the book is more than a compendium of stories, characters, and titles. It proves the fluid, enriching, and ongoing relationship that exists between Peru and Japan.

Dragons in the Land of the Condor

Author: Ignacio López-Calvo

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 081659869X

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Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors. While authors like Siu Kam Wen and Julia Wong often rely on their Chinese cultural heritage for inspiration, many others, like Pedro Zulen, Mario Wong, and Julio Villanueva Chang, choose other sources of inspiration and identification. López-Calvo studies the different strategies used by these writers to claim either their belonging in the Peruvian national project or their difference as a minority ethnic group within Peru. Whether defending the rights of indigenous Peruvians, revealing the intricacies of a life of self-exploitation among Chinese shopkeepers, exploring their identitarian dilemmas, or re-creating—beyond racial memory—life under the political violence in Lima of the 1980s, these authors provide their community with a voice and a collective agency, while concomitantly repositioning contemporary Peruvian culture as transnational. López-Calvo bridges from his earlier study of Peruvian Nikkei’s testimonials and literature and raises this question: why are Chinese Peruvian authors seemingly more disconnected from their Asian heritage than Japanese Peruvian authors from theirs? The author argues that the Chinese arrival in Peru half a century earlier influenced a stronger identification with the criollo world. Yet he argues that this situation may soon be changing as the new geopolitical and economic influence of the People’s Republic of China in the world, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, affects the way Chinese and Sino–Latin American communities and their cultures are produced and perceived.

The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez

Author: Gene H. Bell-Villada

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 0190067160

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This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of Gabriel García Márquez's life, oeuvre, and legacy, the first such work since his death in 2014. It incorporates ongoing critical approaches such as feminism, ecocriticism, Marxism, and ethnic studies, while elucidating key aspects of his work, such as his Caribbean-Colombian background; his use of magical realism, myth, and folklore; and his left-wing political views. Thirty-two wide-ranging chapters coverthe bulk of the author's writings, giving special attention to the global influence of García Márquez.

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

Author: I. López-Calvo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1137492961

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Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

Author: Gene H. Bell-Villada

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2016-11-17

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1498533396

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy (Hispanic, U.S., world-wide) all come up for consideration. New readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude are further complemented by fresh, stimulating, highly detailed examinations of his later novels (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Of Love and Other Demons) and stories (Strange Pilgrims). Further attention is focused on “Gabo’s” labors as journalist and as memoirist (Living to Tell the Tale), and to his sometime relationships with the cinema and the stage. Reactions to his enormous stature on the part of younger writers, including recent signs of backlash, are also given thoughtful scrutiny. Feminist and ecocritical interpretations, plus lively discussions of Gabo’s artful use of humor, character’s names, and even cuisine, are to be found here as well. In the wake of García Márquez’s passing away in 2014, this collection of essays serves as a fitting tribute to one of the world’s greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

A History of Chilean Literature

Author: Ignacio López-Calvo

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 1108487378

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This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. It shifts critical focus from national identity and issues to a more multifaceted transnational, hemispheric, and global approach. Its emphasis is on the paradigm transition from the purportedly homogeneous to the heterogeneous.