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Hubert, Maria del Rosario.

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Disorientations: Latin American fictions of East Asia.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Disorientations: Latin American fictions of East Asia./
Author:	Hubert, Maria del Rosario.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2014,
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	Latin American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3626721
ISBN:	9781321017502

Disorientations: Latin American fictions of East Asia.
Hubert, Maria del Rosario.

Disorientations: Latin American fictions of East Asia. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2014 - 206 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation explores the relationship between fiction, knowledge and "knowing" in Latin American discourses of China and Japan. By scrutinizing Brazilian and Hispanic American travel journals, novels, short stories and essays from the nineteenth century to the present, Disorientations engages with the epistemological problems of writing across cultural boundaries and proposes a novel entryway into the study of East Asia and Latin American through the notions of "cultural distance," "fictional Sinology" and "critical exoticism.".

ISBN: 9781321017502Subjects--Topical Terms:

2078811
Latin American literature.

Disorientations: Latin American fictions of East Asia.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the relationship between fiction, knowledge and "knowing" in Latin American discourses of China and Japan. By scrutinizing Brazilian and Hispanic American travel journals, novels, short stories and essays from the nineteenth century to the present, Disorientations engages with the epistemological problems of writing across cultural boundaries and proposes a novel entryway into the study of East Asia and Latin American through the notions of "cultural distance," "fictional Sinology" and "critical exoticism.".
520 $a Comparative in spirit, the argument is divided into three chapters that create a constellation of historical and textual problems around a specific form of knowledge. Chapter 1 studies the relationship between cartography and ethnography in nineteenth-century Latin American travelogues of China. It demonstrates how traveling diplomats and businessmen involved in the coolie trade employ a paradoxical rhetoric that distances the Chinese as a subaltern, exotic Other and simultaneously approximates it as an compatible, potential fellow countryman; juxtaposing thus the rhetoric of dilettante tourism and racial positivism. Chapter 2 analyzes the problem of philology and the global circulation of non-Western literatures in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. By examining Sinology as a disciplinary discourse, it shows Borges assembles a contingent canon of Chinese literature, translates without an original and capitalizes the constraints of the literary market in his numerous reviews on Chinese literature published in the 1930's and 1940's, thus producing a fictional epistemology of China that works as a meta-literary exercise of world literature. Lastly, Chapter 3 is a thorough discussion of fiction (particularly the adventure novel and immigration narrative) as a form of cultural knowledge. By analyzing the uses of exoticism in contemporary Latin American narratives about Asian travel, I hold that post-Boom writers relate to the particularistic aesthetics of Latin Americanism from a global stance by parodying "orientalism", and contemporary Brazilian novels about Japan do not engage with a revision of a foreign canon, but rather, revisit a particular tradition of Japanese-Brazilian immigration literature.
520 $a Disorientation, I contend, is a rhetoric that not only revisits the hegemonic archive of "the Orient" from a Latin American point of view, but mostly, explores the literary potential of peripheral epistemologies in general.
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