The Political Unconscious of Asian-Latin American Writing and Asian Communities in the Latin American Political Unconscious
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Ignacio López-Calvo
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López-Calvo, I. (2022). The Political Unconscious of Asian-Latin American Writing and Asian Communities in the Latin American Political Unconscious. Revista Guillermo De Ockham, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.21500/22563202.5820 (Original work published July 29, 2022)
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Abstract
Turning around Fredric Jameson's theory on the importance of class struggle to access the political unconscious in literary studies and on the use of narrative as a method to collectively repress historical contradictions, in this essay I propose to divert or add another type of repressed historical contradiction: the ethnic struggles and conflicts used by the majority of Latin American societies to oppress and marginalize, through internal colonialism and even deportation, the communities of Asian origin. In this context, this essay explores what is hidden or repressed, consciously or unconsciously, in the diasporic literary discourse of Asian-Latin American communities.
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López-Calvo, Ignacio (2019). Japanese Brazilian Saudades: Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production. Loisville, Colorado: UP of Colorado.
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López-Calvo, Ignacio (en prensa). “Were Issei in Brazil imperialists? Migration-driven expansionism in Nikkei literature”. The Japanese Empire and Latin America. Edited by Sidney Xu Lu and Pedro Iacobelli. Hawaii University Press.
Mbembe, Achille (2003). Necropolitics. Public Culture, vol. 15(1), pp. 11-40.
Puig, Juan (1993). Entre el río Perla y el Nazas: La China decimonónica y sus braceros emigrantes, la colonia china de Torreón y la matanza de 1911. México: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
Rivas, Beatriz (2017). Jamás, nadie. Alfaguara.
Rodríguez, Juan José (1996). Asesinato en una lavandería china. Sinaloa, México: Conaculta.
Salazar, Jorge (1991). La medianoche del japonés. Lima: El Barranco.
Schiavone Camacho, Julia María (2012). Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland 1910-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Siu, Lok C. D. (2005). Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama: Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
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