Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections

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.

“Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia, Lu and Camps offer a refreshing compilation of research about the overlooked influence of Latin American literature and culture in Asia … the volume favors the more realistic cultural exchanges, especially in literary and audiovisual cultural products.” (Moisés Park, Hispania, Vol. 105 (1), March, 2022)

• 1. Introduction: Constructing A New Field of Inquiry: Latin America in Asian Literary and Cultural Studies.- 2. A peripheral, South-South Literary Exchange: Balmori and the Reception of Latin American Modernismo in the Philippines.- 3. Filipino Poet Jesús Balmori: Chronicles of His Travel to Mexico Passing Through Japan (1932-1934).- 4. Transpacific: The Queering of Philippine and Hispanic American Literatures.- 5. Disrupted Nationalisms in Times of War: Young Ha-Kim, and José Revueltas.- 6. Common Ground: Shared Textuality and Visuality in China and Latin America.- 7. Korean Reality Television-Travel Shows in Constructing Latin American Cultural Identities (2010-Present).- 8. Beauty is a Wound: Retelling Modern Indonesian History Through Magical Realism.- 9. Representing History, Trauma and Marginality in Chinese Magical Realist Films.- 10. Transcontinental Journey of Magical Realism: A Study ofIndian Literatures’ Response.