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        Toma y Daca

        Transculturación Y Presencia de Escritores Chino-Latinoamericanos

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        Author(s)
        Yen, Huei Lan
        Language
        Spanish
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        Abstract
        En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, decenas de miles de trabajadores chinos emigraron a Cuba, Perú, México y Panamá en busca de una vida mejor. En los países donde residieron, los chinos y sus descendientes optaron por asimilarse contribuyendo de manera significativa al desarrollo económico de la sociedad de acogida mediante su participación laboral en la agricultura, el transporte y otras industrias. Asimismo, en el ámbito literario, artístico, religioso y político también aportaron al devenir cultural de estos países. En Toma y daca: Transculturación y presencia de escritores chino-latinoamericanos, uno de los primeros estudios de la tradición literaria china-latinoamericana y uno de los primeros que trata obras de autores nunca antes estudiados, Huei Lan Yen examina cómo los escritores latinoamericanos de primera y segunda generación de ascendencias china y mestiza utilizan la literatura para reconstruir, reevaluar, y renegociar sus identidades culturales. Yen sostiene que es a través de esa producción literaria que conseguimos un mejor entendimiento de las complejidades y tensiones del proceso de la transculturación Oriente-Occidente en América Latina del siglo XIX. Explorando a gran escala la interrelación única entre los componentes de la cultura china, como el confucianismo y el taoísmo, y las culturas dominantes de América Latina, Yen demuestra que la literatura china en América Latina posee una tradición de compleja y sofisticada estética, pero siempre con sus propios rasgos distintivos culturales. In the mid-1800s, tens of thousands of Chinese workers migrated to Cuba, Peru, Mexico, and Panama in search of a better life. As they and their descendants assimilated into their new host countries, they contributed significantly to the economies of these countries through their work in agriculture, transportation, and other industries. However, through the years and throughout their work and assimilation, they also made distinguished literary, artistic, religious, and political contributions to the cultural heritage of the region. In this seminal in-depth study of the Chinese-Latin American literary tradition, Huei Lan Yen examines how first-and second-generation Latin American writers of Chinese and mixed-race Chinese descent relied upon literature to reconstruct, reevaluate, and renegotiate their cultural identities. Yen then argues that it is through the lens of their literary output that we can best understand the intricacies and tensions of the East-West transculturation process of nineteenth-century Latin America. Prior studies have treated Chinese-Latin Americans as characters. However, this is the first sustained study of the work of Chinese-Latin American authors. Explicating the unique interplay of aspects of Chinese culture, such as Confucianism and Taoism, with dominant Latin American cultures, Yen reveals Chinese-Latin American literature as having an aesthetically complex and sophisticated tradition with a specific cultural flavor of its own.
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        https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94453
        Keywords
        Literature: history and criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
        ISBN
        9781612494647, 9781557537485, 9781612494647, 9781557537485, 9781612494654
        Publisher
        Purdue University Press
        Publisher website
        http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/
        Publication date and place
        West Lafayette, 2016
        Imprint
        Purdue University Press
        Series
        Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 67
        Classification
        Literature: history and criticism
        Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
        Pages
        115
        Rights
        https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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        • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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