MACMILLAN Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia)

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.  Review “The South-South connection that has increased its intensity in the recent decade is nothing short of a paradigm shift. The essays that make up this groundbreaking volume are valuable contributions to the formulation of key issues of this process and as case studies of the interpretive consequences of the paradigm change represented by that process, and exemplified by the transpacific literary and cultural interactions and engagements between Latin America and Asia.”  --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   From the Back Cover 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.  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.  About the Author Jie Lu is Professor of Chinese Studies & Film Studies at the University of the Pacific, USA. Martin Camps is