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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme.…

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1 author picked Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In this brilliant study, Strabucchi astutely comes to the conclusion that the signifiers China and Chinese, as imagined and fetishized in contemporary Latin American literature, have become discursive matrixes to reframe the discourse of alterity in a more cosmopolitan way, demand a more accurate depiction of the region’s heterogeneity, and deconstruct essentialist constructions of Latin American community, identity, and difference. The book is very original, thoroughly researched, and well written.

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