Literary and Cultural Connections in the Spanish-Speaking World

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Journeys Between Wests and Easts—Literary and Cultural Connections from and Towards the Spanish-Speaking World
	Works Cited
Part I: Crossroads Between Asia and Latin America: Writing Through Travelling and Travelling Through Reading
	Chapter 2: Juan Bustamante: The First Non-Creole, Non-lettered Latin American Who Lived and Wrote Nineteenth-Century China
		On the Politics of Travelling and the Travel Writer
		Transiting Along the Roads of the Qing Empire
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	Chapter 3: Travel Writings as Re-writings of the East: Vislumbres de la India by Octavio Paz and Coronada de Moscas by Margo Glanz
		A Glance at Paz’s Writings on India
		A Glimpse of Glantz’s Perspective
		Impact of Said’s Philosophy
		Conclusion
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	Chapter 4: The Asian Signs of the Cuban Neobaroque: A Reading of Lezama and Sarduy
		The Master of the Void
		“The void is the form”
		At the Master’s Funeral
		Concluding Remarks
		Works Cited
Part II: Journeys Across Narratives of Identity: Easts and Wests in Hybridity
	Chapter 5: Japón no da dos oportunidades by Augusto Higa Oshiro: The Birth of a Peruvian Nisei Writer
		Us and I: Shaping a Migrant Identity
			Nostalgia of the Parents, or Becoming a Stranger in Japan
			Us: Nikkei Migrants Faced with Japan
			A Nikkei Migrant Among Other Nikkei Migrants
			Reconstitution of Linearity
		The Making of a Nisei Author
			An Epic Adventure
			Romantic Sakuras
			A Fantastic Shadow
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: Displacement and (S)exile in the Films Fireflies (2018) by Bani Khoshnoudi and Happy Together (1997) by Wong Karwai
		Places of Sexual Encounters
		The Bed
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	Chapter 7: From Miseries of the East to the Glorification of the West: Orientalist Insight into Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (You Only Live Once) and Representation of India in Hispanic Cinema
		Cinema and Bollywood
		India in Cinema
		Film Tourism and Exotic Locations
		Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Orientalism
		India in Hispanic Cinema
		Orientalism in La India
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	Chapter 8: Chilean Arabic Diasporic Discourse in La llave by Esperanza Marzouka
		Palestinians in Chile and the Mahjar Movement
		Pluricultural Society in Jerusalem
		Conclusion
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Part III: The Philippines in Spanish: The West in the East?
	Chapter 9: Alejandro Cubero and Elisea Raguer, Two Spanish Zarzuelistas in the Development of Filipino Lyrical Theatre (From 1881 to 1897)
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			Periodical Magazines
			Barcelona
			Madrid
			Manila
	Chapter 10: Los ascensos del inspector Rojo (The Ascents of Inspector Rojo, 1924) by Guillermo Gómez Windham: The Optimistic Face of the Philippines Under American Tutelage
		A Chronicle of Filipino Transformations
		An American Filipino Bildungsroman
		The Optimistic Face of the Philippines
		Conclusion
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Index