With Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean, editors Luisa Marcela Ossa and Debbie Lee-DiStefano have provided us an admirable collection of innovative and forward-thinking scholarship that destabilizes and therefore enlivens the disciplines of Latin American Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and Asian Studies. . . . This is a much-needed volume, one that opens lines of inquiry and research possibilities for students and scholars of the Americas, Asia, and Africa alike. Within the academy, it is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students who will find scholarship that builds on the legacies of Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, and Kathleen Lopez, among others. It is a generative and provocative collection, one that has the potential to serve as a foundational text for more work in the studies of the Americas.
* Hispania *Chapter 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
Chapter 5 Parallels and Intersections: Literary Depictions of the Lives of Chinese and Africans 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 as Feminist Strategy in Three Contemporary Caribbean Novels
Chapter 9 La Mulata Achinada: Bodies, Gender, and Authority in Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba