scholarly journals From Interethnic Alliances to the “Magical Negro”: Afro-Asian Interactions in Asian Latin American Literature

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Ignacio López-Calvo
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Andean Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sociocultural Interactions

This essay studies Afro-Asian sociocultural interactions in cultural production by or about Asian Latin Americans, with an emphasis on Cuba and Brazil. Among the recurrent characters are the black slave, the china mulata, or the black ally who expresses sympathy or even marries the Asian character. This reflects a common history of bondage shared by black slaves, Chinese coolies, and Japanese indentured workers, as well as a common history of marronage. These conflicts and alliances between Asians and blacks contest the official discourse of mestizaje (Spanish-indigenous dichotomies in Mexico and Andean countries, for example, or black and white binaries in Brazil and the Caribbean) that, under the guise of incorporating the other, favored whiteness while attempting to silence, ignore, or ultimately erase their worldviews and cultures.

scholarly journals Afro-Asian Sociocultural Interactions in Cultural Production by or About Asian Latin Americans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio López-Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Andean Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sociocultural Interactions

This essay studies Afro-Asian sociocultural interactions in cultural production by or about Asian Latin Americans, with an emphasis on Cuba and Brazil. Among the recurrent characters are the black slave, the china mulata, or the black ally who expresses sympathy or even marries the Asian character. This reflects a common history of bondage shared by black slaves, Chinese coolies, and Japanese indentured workers, as well as a common history of marronage. These conflicts and alliances between Asians and blacks contest the official discourse of mestizaje (Spanish-indigenous dichotomies in Mexico and Andean countries, for example, or black and white binaries in Brazil and the Caribbean), which, under the guise of incorporating the Other, favored whiteness, all the while attempting to silence, ignore, or ultimately erase their worldviews and cultures.

scholarly journals Sor Juana y la cosmología barroca: "Primero sueño"

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
Roberto González Echevarría
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sor Juana ◽  
Primero Sueno

El texto que sigue aprovecha el trabajo que he publicado sobre el barroco y, en especial, mi ensayo “Lírica colonial,” que aparece en la Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, que Gredos publicó en el 2006, y que había aparecido en su versión original inglesa en la Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, de 1996. También retomo algunas de las ideas de Celestina´s Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature, que se publicó en España como La prole de Celestina. Pero aquí aspiro a ir más lejos al concentrarme en un solo poema de Sor Juana, “Primero sueño”, y utilizar ideas que he ido desarrollando en los últimos diez o quince años. Las más recientes forman parte de un libro en marcha sobre el infinito y la improvisación del que ya han aparecido algunos adelantos sobre Cervantes y Calderón. Hay otro sobre Lope en camino.

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature

1998 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 1137
Author(s):  
Catherine Davies ◽  
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria ◽  
Enrique Pupo-Walker
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
History Of

Forensic Fictions

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Carlos Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

Taking as its point of departure the contemporary crisis of testimonio and the recent works by Eyal Weizman, who has suggested in his book Mengele’s Skull that we have now entered an era where subjective testimony has been supplanted by object-oriented modes of witnessing, this chapter introduces the category of forensic fictions as a way of categorizing and thinking through recent Latin American literature, art, and film. Analyzing how the figure of the archive and its ruins is represented as well as presented throughout recent Latin American cultural production—in a series of works ranging from Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 all the way to the forensic sculptures of Teresa Margolles—the article explores the possibility of a mode of witnessing that goes beyond the humanist notion of the subjective voice of the witness. In dialogue with contemporary debates concerning post-memory, it proposes that the image of the ruinous archive as a metonym for thinking through the possibility historicity in a world devoid of the foundational myths which had until then functioned as the basis of historical meaning.

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