Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Constructing A New Field of Inquiry: Latin America in Asian Literary and Cultural Studies
Part I Latin America and the Philippines in the Transpacific Connections
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
Part II Shared Issues of Identities, Traumas and Migrant Experiences Across Two Continents 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)
Part III Magical Realism in Its Asian Turn
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 of Indian Literatures' Response
About the Author: 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.
