Even though over the last three decades several books on
Western-Eastern encounters have been published, this book offers a
new approach to the way we look at current writers of Spanish and
Portuguese and their vigor and creativity in guiding us towards a
deeper understanding of Orientalism. The chapters in this volume
explore novels, short stories, poems, essays and chronicles of
prominent writers of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world through
the lens of transmodernity in a way that blurs borders and
gracefully blends fiction with our own perceived cultural and
personal realities. The essays take us from images of China and
Japan in the writings of Camilo Pessanha and Wenceslau de Moraes to
the Orientalism in Grande sertao: veredas with refreshing
approaches to the linguistic and thematic uniqueness of this
influential Brazilian novel. Moreover, the book offers compelling
observations of Spanish-Middle Eastern Orientalisms by looking at
recent texts which include Mohamed Akalay's Entre Tanger y Larache
as well as Maria Duenas' El tiempo entre costuras by recognizing
the palpable historical, geographic and transnational connections
that exist between Spain and the Middle East. Further, this study
tackles the multifaceted nature of how twenty-first century
novelists portray Asia by inviting us to look at ghosts and the
human body in Mario Bellatin's most recent novels and to face the
realities of cultural amnesia and self-discovery in Cristina Rivera
Garza's Verde Shanghai. This book is essential to those who want to
understand East-West encounters in a way that is striking, unique,
and academically robust.
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