Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia 9783030557720, 9783030557737

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Table of contents :
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Constructing a New Field of Inquiry: Latin America in Asian Literary and Cultural Studies
Theoretical Frameworks
Literary And Cultural Contexts
Literary And Cultural Texts
Works Cited
Part I: Latin America and the Philippines in the Transpacific Connections
Chapter 2: A Peripheral, South-South Literary Exchange: Balmori and the Reception of Latin American Modernismo in the Philippines
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Filipino Poet Jesús Balmori: Testimonials of His Mexican Journey Passing Through Japan (1932–1934)
Vicissitudes and Conjectures of the Mexican Journey
Japanese Deviation of the Mexican Chronicles
Verse Stamps of Mexican Popular Culture
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Transpacific: The Queering of Philippine and Hispanic American Literatures
Beauty Pageant in Manila
A Translocal Homoerotics
A Place Without Limits
Where Inversion Is the Dominant Pattern
The Game of “Genderfucking”
Sexual and Political Revolution
Power, Desire and Resistance
Hermaphrodites and mga baklá
Beyond the Closet, More Closets
The Woman Most in Need of Liberation
Works Cited
Part II: Shared Issues of Identities, Traumas and Migrant Experiences Across Two Continents
Chapter 5: Disrupted Nationalisms in Times of War: Young Ha-Kim and José Revueltas
Korean Immigration Amid the Mexican Upheaval
Trauma and Identity Narratives of the Korean War
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 6: Common Ground: Shared Textuality and Visuality in China and Latin America
Germination
Body Territory
Seeding and Embodying
Black Soil and Mountain-eaten Beasts
Harvesting and Dispersion
Works Cited
Chapter 7: Korean Reality Television-Travel Shows in Constructing Latin American Cultural Identities (2010–Present)
The Inclusion of Latin America into Korean Television Productions
Latin America in Korean Media: Youth Over Flowers (2014) in Peru
Latin Americans in Korean Media: Welcome, First Time in Korea? (Mexico)
Conclusion
Work Cited
Part III: Magical Realism in Its Asian Turn
Chapter 8: Beauty Is a Wound: Retelling Modern Indonesian History Through Magical Realism
Beauty Is A Wound, a Novel in a Magical Realist Mode
Dewi Ayu’s Family Story As Indonesia’s Romance of National Formation
The Return of The Repressed And The Ghosts of History
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Representing History, Trauma and Marginality in Chinese Magical Realist Films
Cinematic Magical Realism
History and Trauma in The Sun Also Rises
Experiences of Marginality in Hello, Mr. Tree!
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Transcontinental Journey of Magical Realism: A Study of Indian Literatures’ Response
Two Geoepistemic Spaces of Magical Realism
India
Horizontal dialogue between Senapati and Márquez
Narrative transculturation in Uday Prakash
Marvelous realist novels of Vijayan and Carpentier in conversation
Conclusions
Works Cited
Index

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