Peripheral Transmodernities

South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4438-3714-9
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten

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-South dialogues tend not to be as asymmetric as the old dialogue between the (former) metropolis (the hegemonic, Eurocentric center) and the colonies.

These essays about Hispanic and Latino cultural production (most of them dealing with literature, but some covering urban art, music, and film) provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance. In some of them, we can find peripheral subjectivities’ perception of other peripheral, racialized, and (post)colonial subjects and their cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

López-Calvo, Ignacio

Über Autor(innen)

López-Calvo, Ignacio
Ignacio López-Calvo is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of five books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture: Written in Exile: Chilean Fiction from 1973–Present (Routledge, 2001); Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963–2000 (Mellen, 2002); “Trujillo and God”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (University Press of Florida, 2005); Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida, 2007); and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety (University of Arizona Press, 2011). In addition, he has edited the books Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) and One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), and co-edited Caminos para la paz: literatura israelí y árabe en castellano (2008). He is the co-executive director of the academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. He is currently completing a book titled Dragons in the Land of the Condor: The Nikkei in Peru’s Cultural Production.

Ignacio López-Calvo is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of five books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture: Written in Exile: Chilean Fiction from 1973–Present (Routledge, 2001); Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963–2000 (Mellen, 2002); “Trujillo and God”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (University Press of Florida, 2005); Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida, 2007); and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety (University of Arizona Press, 2011). In addition, he has edited the books Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) and One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), and co-edited Caminos para la paz: literatura israelí y árabe en castellano (2008). He is the co-executive director of the academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. He is currently completing a book titled Dragons in the Land of the Condor: The Nikkei in Peru’s Cultural Production.