This volume makes a much-needed addition to the growing field of trans-pacific literary and cultural studies. Weaving together a mélange of countries in Global Asia, the essays in this volume examine not only the Latin Americans who wrote about topics related to Asia, but also the Asian immigrants who reinvented themselves through Latin America’s cultural landscape. The result is a collection of critical dialogues that transcend the conventional notions of identity, representation, and knowledge production. -
Koichi Hagimoto, Wellesley College, USA
Cultural and Literary Dialogues between Asia and Latin America offers a welcome contribution to growing scholarship on Asia and Latin America. Braiding together the many facets of Asian-Latin American interactions, the collection explores fascinating little-known linkages and redraws comparative literary studies along trans-pacific routes. This is an important contribution to Asian and Latin American cultural studies that br