Overview
- Examines how the literature, film and art in contemporary Asian countries interacted with Latin American aesthetics including early modernist movements, queer theory, postcolonial discourse, revolutionary cinema, Magic Realism and postmodernist praxes
- Presents a general picture on how Asian writers as well as Latin American writers have come up with cultural/literary approaches and imageries to account for greater diversity, marginality and distinctiveness in their societies
- Challenges the application of the Europe/North America centered western intellectual paradigms to Asian/Latin American situations
Part of the book series: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia (HCILAA)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Latin America and the Philippines in the Transpacific Connections
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Shared Issues of Identities, Traumas and Migrant Experiences Across Two Continents
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About this book
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.
Reviews
--David William Foster, Arizona State University, USA
“The focus of this project covers an important gap in Asian Studies and Latin American studies, and expands Global South studies by adding transpacific literary and cultural connections and interactions between these two continents that has been rarely studied so far. This anthology opens up a new field of studies, and will be a significant aid to my teaching and research.”
--José Ignacio Suárez, University of Northern Colorado, USA
“Economic and political accounts of Latin America-Asia relations abound. But this is the first English anthology on cultural interflow between the two continents. Inspired by overlapped histories of the anticolonial Global South and with Latin America-Asia as a method, the contributors challenge Euro-American hegemony, illuminate intellectual dialogue and aesthetic resonance between two regions, and open a new vista in Asian Studies.”
--Ban Wang, Stanford University, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections
Book Subtitle: Latin American Influence in Asia
Editors: Jie Lu, Martín Camps
Series Title: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55773-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55772-0Published: 12 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55775-1Published: 12 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55773-7Published: 11 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4277
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 263
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American Culture, Asian Culture