Cultural Encounters Between Latin America And The Pacific Rim

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Close Encounters of Empire

Author : Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0822320991

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Close Encounters of Empire by Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore Pdf

Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

Diasporic Homecomings

Author : Takeyuki Tsuda
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804772068

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Diasporic Homecomings by Takeyuki Tsuda Pdf

In recent decades, increasing numbers of diasporic peoples have returned to their ethnic homelands, whether because of economic pressures, a desire to rediscover ancestral roots, or the homeland government's preferential immigration and nationality policies. Although the returnees may initially be welcomed back, their homecomings often prove to be ambivalent or negative experiences. Despite their ethnic affinity to the host populace, they are frequently excluded as cultural foreigners and relegated to low-status jobs shunned by the host society's populace. Diasporic Homecomings, the first book to provide a comparative overview of the major ethnic return groups in Europe and East Asia, reveals how the sociocultural characteristics and national origins of the migrants influence their levels of marginalization in their ethnic homelands, forcing many of them to redefine the meanings of home and homeland.

Rahner Beyond Rahner

Author : Paul G. Crowley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 074254964X

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Rahner Beyond Rahner by Paul G. Crowley Pdf

One hundred years after the birth of Karl Rahner, the contributors to this book ask whether and how Rahner's theology can address new religious and cultural realities in the twenty-first century, particularly those realities found on what has come to be called "the Pacific Rim." Stretching from California and Latin America, and across the Pacific Ocean to Asia, this geographic region manifests an incredible cultural and religious diversity, but also many points of intersection and interpenetration, resulting in new forms of religion and spirituality. The theological categories generated by Rahner, such as the anonymous Christian and even the notion of a world church, meet steep challenges when read in contexts very different from that of Germany and the theological currents of the "Atlantic." At the same time, the encounter between Rahner and the Pacific Rim results in fresh readings of Rahner not previously imagined, not only in places like China and Mexico, but even Los Angeles. Anchored by a seminal essay by Francis X. Clooney, S.J. (Harvard), contributors, include Thomas Sheehan (Stanford), Catherine Bell (Santa Clara), and George Griener, S.J. (Berkeley). Each essay examines the possibilities and limitations of Rahner's theology in this newly configured Pacific world.

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

Author : Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315507958

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History by Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert Pdf

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations. It studies the spaces between cultures historically to help us transcend human differences today in a rapidly globalizing world. The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments and particularly significant encounters that have changed the direction of world history. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history.

Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America

Author : Axel Gasquet,Gorica Majstorovic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030525712

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Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America by Axel Gasquet,Gorica Majstorovic Pdf

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.

Thinking the Nation

Author : Hugh Mehan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111523077

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Global Latin America

Author : Matthew C. Gutmann,Jeffrey Lesser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520965942

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Global Latin America by Matthew C. Gutmann,Jeffrey Lesser Pdf

Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside the region. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories focus on insights from public intellectuals, political leaders, artists, academics, and activists from the region, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the global relevance of Latin America in the twenty-first century.

The German-American Encounter

Author : Frank Trommler,Elliott Shore
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800734951

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The German-American Encounter by Frank Trommler,Elliott Shore Pdf

While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.

East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies

Author : Chiara Olivieri,Jordi Serrano-Muñoz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030745288

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East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies by Chiara Olivieri,Jordi Serrano-Muñoz Pdf

In this collective work, researchers from different disciplines reflect upon the challenges and opportunities of decolonizing transpacific studies through the lens of a few paradigmatic case-studies that deal with connections between East Asia and Latin America. The present book offers a productive problematization of the idea of the transpacific as a concept and a space that is not restricted to a single definition. We defend that the transpacific can instead promote an understanding of agents and experiences that share many common traits that have been generally overlooked by a hegemonic interpretation of knowledge and the relationship between regions.By fostering an environment that not only accepts a plurality of views but that actively looks to accommodate analogous, tangential, and even contradicting approaches to the study of our ideas, we seek a double objective. First, we hope to highlight precisely the richness within the idea of the transpacific, avoiding sticking to any particular conception to it while at the same time acknowledging and owning each of our points of enunciation. Our second objective is part of a constant struggle in the quest towards social and epistemic justice. By adopting this stance of plurality, we can fight against structures of knowledge production and reproduction that willingly or unintentionally instill specific interpretations in ways that inculcate exclusivity. The goal of this book is opening up and expanding the debate regarding transpacific connections, examining the limits and promises of including these experiences within the conceptual paradigm of the Global South, and showcasing different ways of approaching decolonial research to the study of the relationship between East Asia and Latin America.

A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan

Author : Araceli Tinajero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030644888

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A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan by Araceli Tinajero Pdf

Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades. Based on in-depth research in archives throughout the country as well as field work including several interviews, Japanese-speaking Mexican scholar Araceli Tinajero uncovers a transnational, contemporary cultural history that is not only important for today but for future generations.

Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections

Author : Jie Lu,Martín Camps
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030557737

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Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections by Jie Lu,Martín Camps Pdf

This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the two regions' historical traumas, cultural identities, indigenous/vernacular traditions, and peripheral global-ness. The volume argues that Asian and Latin American literary and cultural endeavors are part of these regions' broader efforts to search for the forms of modernity that best fit their unique sociohistorical and sociocultural conditions.

Global Latin America

Author : Matthew C. Gutmann,Jeffrey Lesser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520277731

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Global Latin America by Matthew C. Gutmann,Jeffrey Lesser Pdf

"Latin America has a unique historical and cultural context, is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico, and is tied to world regions including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America considers this regional interconnectedness and examines its meaning and impact in a global world. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories highlight the insights of public intellectuals, political leaders, artists, academics, and activists, thereby allowing students to gain an appreciation of the diversity and global relevance of Latin America in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.

Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America

Author : Mabel Moraña
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031089039

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Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America by Mabel Moraña Pdf

Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical “turn” known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and society. This volume proposes a hydro-critical approach to issues related to the colonial period. The analysed texts demonstrate not only the presence of water and oceanic trajectories as metaphorical devices, but the inherent implication of navigation, ports, islandic territories, drainage systems, floodings and the like in configuration of collective imaginaries, from colonial times to the present. This book encompasses studies of the decisive role water played in the world view from/about the “New World” since the discovery, both for the monarchy and the church, and the impact of oceanic journeys for the advancement of colonization and slavery. In chapters that combine historical, linguistic, literary and ethnographic approaches, this volume constitutes an attempt to expand the scope and methodology of colonial studies. At the same time, the continuity of maritime perspectives reaches the analysis of contemporary literature, thus demonstrating the importance of this critical paradigm for the study of Caribbean cultures. In this respect, studies particularly illuminate the connection between popular beliefs and oceanic dimensions, as well as on issues of gender and ethnicity.

The Poetic Artistry of José Watanabe

Author : Randy Muth,Alfredo López-Pasarín Basabe,Shigeko Mato
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030816155

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The Poetic Artistry of José Watanabe by Randy Muth,Alfredo López-Pasarín Basabe,Shigeko Mato Pdf

Connecting multiple academic areas, this book addresses three aspects of the poetry of José Watanabe: 1) the construction of "Japaneseness" in the poetic works and public figure of the poet, 2) the skillful manipulation of literary devices characteristic of his poetry, 3) the unique sensibilities and moods of ephemerality and ineffableness prevalent in his poetic works. The trans/interdisciplinary nature of the book intends to promote a dialogue and exchange of ideas across academic fields neglected in most studies on the Peruvian poet. Written by researchers based in Japan, it offers a unique perspective of Japanese cultural phenomenon unavailable in previous studies. The goal of the book is to shed light on how Japan continues to be seen by the West through essentialist notions and stereotypical representations, as well as to highlight the fact that the literary quality of Watanabe’s poetic artistry does not reside in it being “Japanese” and can be appreciated without resorting to essentialist categorizations based on positive Japanese stereotypes.