Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia

Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia
ISBN-10
3030557731
ISBN-13
9783030557737
Category
Social Science
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2020-11-11
Publisher
Springer Nature
Authors
Jie Lu, Martín Camps

Description

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.

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