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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.
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.
This collection of essays examines the city of Stockton, California
from an interdisciplinary perspective. Stockton is in the heart of
the Central Valley, an agricultural region that comprises a diverse
population and rich history. This book covers the economic downturn
of the city that was ground zero for the housing market crisis
during the Great Recession, which resulted in it becoming the first
major American city to declare bankruptcy. Nevertheless, the city
cannot be framed only on its economic misfortunes; Stockton has a
vibrant community with important historical figures such as Martin
Ramirez, an outsider painter who was a patient in the Stockton
State Hospital. This book also covers topics such as food studies,
religious communities, historical resources at the library at the
University of the Pacific, business community programs such as
"Puentes", an overview of the city's racial diversity,
auto-ethnographies, the family connection to Mexican author Elena
Poniatowska, and a program at the Stockton High School during WWII
to send jeeps as part of the war effort. This book is informed by
the perspectives of historians, sociologists, political scientists,
economists, business scholars, and literary and cultural studies
theorists to provide a wide range of approaches to a vital
community in the Central Valley of California.
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