This book brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars on the history of cultural and literary interactions between Asia and Latin America. Through a number of interlinked case studies, contributors examine how different forms of Asia-Latin America dialogues are embedded in various national and local contexts.
The volume is divided in four parts: 1) Asian hybrid identities and Latin American transnational narratives; 2) translations and reception of Latin American narratives in Asia; 3) diffracted worlds of Nikkei identities; and 4) interweaving of Asian and Latin American narratives and travel chronicles. Through the lens of modern globality and Transpacific Studies, the contributions inaugurate a perspective that has, until recently, been neglected by Asian and Latin American cultural studies, while offering an incisive theoretical discussion and detailed textual analysis.

Axel Gasquet is Professor of Latin American literature and culture at University Clermont Auvergne, France, and principal researcher at IHRIM of French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Gorica Majstorovic is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Coordinator at Stockton University, USA

1. Introduction: Cultural and Literary Interactions Between Asia and Latin America.- Part I Asian Hybrid Identities and Latin American Transnational Narratives.- 2. (Trans)National Narratives of Identity in Federico Jeanmarie's Tacos Altos (2016).- 3. Identity and Poetic Memory in Lina Meruane's Volverse Palestina.- 4. Hybrid Identities: Mexico and the Middle East in Memoria de Líbano by Carlos Martínez Assad and Casa Damasco by Maruan Soto Antaki.- Part II Reception and Translations of Latin American Writers in Asia.- 5. Shared Neoliberalisms: The Cultural Affects of the Contemporary Pacific.- 6. Fragile Bridges: Translation Theory and Translation Practices in Contemporary Transpacific Literature.- 7. Reception of Chilean Literature and South Korean Intellectual Genealogy.- Part III Diffraction Worlds of Nikkei Identities.- 8. Biopolitics, Orientalism, and the Asian Immigrant as Monster in Salazar's La medianoche del japonés and Rodríguez's Asesinato en una lavandería china.- 9. Militancy and Imperial Masculinity in Sugi Takeo's "Revenge" and Vicente Amorim's Dirty Hearts.- 10. Quiet Revenges: The Infinite Intensity of the Silenced History of Japanese Peruvians in Carlos Yushimito del Valle's "Ciudad de Cristal".- 11. The Sea and Poison: Shusaku Endo's Prelude to Silence.- Part IV Crossroads of Asia-Latin American Narratives and Travel Writing.- 12. The Peripheral Spanish World in the Antipodes: The Filipino T. H. Pardo de Tavera in the Centennial Argentina.- 13. José Rizal and the Foundational Novels of Latin America.- 14. Is It Not So Easy to Go from West to East? A Political View of Cecília Meireles in India.- 15. Orientalism Expanded? Latin American Travel Narratives Heading East.