Peripheral transmodernities : south-to-south intercultural dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic world and 'the Orient' / edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López-Calvo, Ignacio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Latin America--Relations--Orient.

Latin America.

Orient--Relations--Latin America.

Orient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds. As we see in these essays, the Europeans' cultural others (peripheral nations and former colonies) have established an intercultural and intercontinental dialogue among themselves, without feeling the need to resort to the center-metropolis' mediation. These South-to-Sou...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; THEORY, ORIENTALISM AND A PERSPECTIVE ON THEIR PLACE IN THE STUDY OF ASIANS IN THE AMERICAS; WALKING THE TALK; CHAPTER TWO; REWRITING TRAVEL LITERATURE; SAUCHEOFÚ; JOSÉ MARTÍ, THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND GLOBAL COLONIALITY; SEXUALIZATION OF THE ORIENTAL RUINS; IMAGES OF THE JAPANESE IN THE SHORT STORIES OF CARLOS YUSHIMITO DEL VALLE; CHAPTER THREE; THE REPRESENTATION OF JAPAN AND JAPANESE WOMEN IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH FICTION AND JOURNALS; OMAR KHAYYAM'S EPICUREANISM; CANTAR DE MIO CID; CHAPTER FOUR; FRUITS OF CULTURE

TRAVEL AND JAPANESE MIGRATION TO BRAZIL IN O SOL SE PÕE EM SÃO PAULO BY BERNARDO CARVALHOA JAPANESE BRAZILIAN'S MUSINGS; CHAPTER FIVE; IMMINENT AZTLÁN AND ETERNAL 'ASHURA'; KOREA, THE WANDERING SIGNIFIER IN FOUNDATIONAL CHICANO NARRATIVES; CHAPTER SIX; BORGES, ARAROU AND THE OTHER; CHAPTER SEVEN; SPACES OF SELF-REPRESENTATION IN TRANSMODERNITY; A COLONIAL WESTERN (GRAN TORINO)VERSUS A MIMETIC PARABLE (INVICTUS)

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ISBN:

1-280-48635-X

9786613581334

1-4438-3726-1

OCLC:

827209254