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This book brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars
on the history of cultural and literary interactions between Asia
and Latin America. Through a number of interlinked case studies,
contributors examine how different forms of Asia-Latin America
dialogues are embedded in various national and local contexts. The
volume is divided in four parts: 1) Asian hybrid identities and
Latin American transnational narratives; 2) translations and
reception of Latin American narratives in Asia; 3) diffracted
worlds of Nikkei identities; and 4) interweaving of Asian and Latin
American narratives and travel chronicles. Through the lens of
modern globality and Transpacific Studies, the contributions
inaugurate a perspective that has, until recently, been neglected
by Asian and Latin American cultural studies, while offering an
incisive theoretical discussion and detailed textual analysis.
This book examines the modes of representation of the East in
Argentinean literature since the country's independence, in works
by canonical authors such as Esteban Echeverria, Juan B. Alberdi,
Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Pastor S. Obligado,
Eduardo F. Wilde, Leopoldo Lugones, and Roberto Arlt. The East,
which has always fascinated intellectuals and artists from the
Americas, inspired the creation of imaginary elements for both
aesthetic and political purposes, from the depiction of purportedly
despotic rulers to a genuine admiration for Eastern history and
millennial cultures. These writers appropriated the East either
through their travels or by reading chronicles, integrating along
the way images that would end up being universalized by the
Argentinean dichotomy between civilization and barbarism, all the
while assigning the negative stereotypes of the exotic East to the
Pampa region. With time, the exoticism of the Eastern world would
shed its geopolitical meaning and was ultimately integrated into
the national literature, thus adding new elements into the
Argentinean imaginary.
This book examines the modes of representation of the East in
Argentinean literature since the country's independence, in works
by canonical authors such as Esteban Echeverria, Juan B. Alberdi,
Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Pastor S. Obligado,
Eduardo F. Wilde, Leopoldo Lugones, and Roberto Arlt. The East,
which has always fascinated intellectuals and artists from the
Americas, inspired the creation of imaginary elements for both
aesthetic and political purposes, from the depiction of purportedly
despotic rulers to a genuine admiration for Eastern history and
millennial cultures. These writers appropriated the East either
through their travels or by reading chronicles, integrating along
the way images that would end up being universalized by the
Argentinean dichotomy between civilization and barbarism, all the
while assigning the negative stereotypes of the exotic East to the
Pampa region. With time, the exoticism of the Eastern world would
shed its geopolitical meaning and was ultimately integrated into
the national literature, thus adding new elements into the
Argentinean imaginary.
This book brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars
on the history of cultural and literary interactions between Asia
and Latin America. Through a number of interlinked case studies,
contributors examine how different forms of Asia-Latin America
dialogues are embedded in various national and local contexts. The
volume is divided in four parts: 1) Asian hybrid identities and
Latin American transnational narratives; 2) translations and
reception of Latin American narratives in Asia; 3) diffracted
worlds of Nikkei identities; and 4) interweaving of Asian and Latin
American narratives and travel chronicles. Through the lens of
modern globality and Transpacific Studies, the contributions
inaugurate a perspective that has, until recently, been neglected
by Asian and Latin American cultural studies, while offering an
incisive theoretical discussion and detailed textual analysis.
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