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Ignacio López-Calvo Author Of The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

From Ignacio's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Professor Latin American

Ignacio's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Ignacio López-Calvo Why Ignacio loves this book

Transnational Philippines is a much-needed contribution to the subfield of Spanish-language Filipino literature and culture. This is an emerging subfield and a book like this represents a major contribution toward solidifying it and toward encouraging the teaching of Spanish-language Filipino literature in college courses. The different chapters are written by the best-known experts on the topic.

By Rocío Ortuño Casanova (editor) , Axel Gasquet (editor) ,

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1 author picked Transnational Philippines as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish approaches literature that has been forgotten or neglected in studies on other literatures in Spanish due, in part, to the fact that today Spanish is no longer spoken in the Philippines or in Asia. However, isolation has not always been the case, and by omitting Philippine literature in Spanish from the picture of world literatures and Spanish-language literatures, the landscape of these disciplines is incomplete. Transnational Philippines studies how this literary production stemmed from its relationship with other cultures, literature, and arts. It attempts to break this literature's isolation and show…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

Ignacio López-Calvo Author Of The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

From Ignacio's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Professor Latin American

Ignacio's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Ignacio López-Calvo Why Ignacio loves this book

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.

By Maria Montt Strabucchi ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

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. Using 'China' as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America's understanding of 'China' and shows 'China' to be a kind of literary/imaginary 'third' term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these…


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