{"product_id":"afroasian-connections-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-9781498587082","title":"AfroAsian Connections in Latin America and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy bringing global Afro-Asian studies to the forefront, this volume proposes an innovative historical and literary approach in Latin American and Caribbean studies. It explores new epistemologies emerging from the transatlantic and transpacific cross-cultural relations and solidarity between people of African and Asian ancestry throughout the hemisphere. In particular, it addresses how these Afro-Asian contact zones and peripheral, silenced knowledges transformed, through the recovery of their repressed agencies, identitarian and national discourses in the Americas. -- Ignacio López Calvo, University of California, Merced\u003cbr\u003eThe essays collected this book by Ossa and Lee-Distefano present a formidable addition to Latin American, African, and Asian studies—where the fields converge in vigorous and well-researched conversation with one another. -- Sheridan Wigginton, California Lutheran University and President of the Afro-Latin\/American Research Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Afro and Chinese Depictions in Peruvian Social Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century Chapter 2 Locating Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Art of Wifredo Lam Chapter 3 Through the Prism of the Harlem Ashram: Afro-Asian-Caribbean Connections in Transnational Circulation Chapter 4 Merging the Transpacific with the Transatlantic: Afro-Asia in Japanese Brazilian Narratives\t Chapter 5 Parallels and Intersections: Literary Depictions of the Lives of Chinese and \tAfricans in 19th Century and Early 20th Century Cuba  Chapter 6 Erased from Collective Memory: Dreadlocks Story Documentary Untangles the Hindu Legacy of Rastafari Chapter 7 Body of Reconciliation: Aida Petrinera Cheng’s Journey in Como un Mensajero Tuyo Chapter 8 “I am Like One of those Women”: Effeminization of Chinese Caribbean men \tas Feminist Strategy in Three Contemporary Caribbean Novels Chapter 9 La Mulata Achinada: Bodies, Gender, and Authority in Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040850182487,"sku":"9781498587082","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498587082.jpg?v=1750948055","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afroasian-connections-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-9781498587082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}