scholarly journals Afro-Asian Sociocultural Interactions in Cultural Production by or About Asian Latin Americans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio López-Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Andean Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sociocultural Interactions

This essay studies Afro-Asian sociocultural interactions in cultural production by or about Asian Latin Americans, with an emphasis on Cuba and Brazil. Among the recurrent characters are the black slave, the china mulata, or the black ally who expresses sympathy or even marries the Asian character. This reflects a common history of bondage shared by black slaves, Chinese coolies, and Japanese indentured workers, as well as a common history of marronage. These conflicts and alliances between Asians and blacks contest the official discourse of mestizaje (Spanish-indigenous dichotomies in Mexico and Andean countries, for example, or black and white binaries in Brazil and the Caribbean), which, under the guise of incorporating the Other, favored whiteness, all the while attempting to silence, ignore, or ultimately erase their worldviews and cultures.

scholarly journals From Interethnic Alliances to the “Magical Negro”: Afro-Asian Interactions in Asian Latin American Literature

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Ignacio López-Calvo
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Andean Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sociocultural Interactions

This essay studies Afro-Asian sociocultural interactions in cultural production by or about Asian Latin Americans, with an emphasis on Cuba and Brazil. Among the recurrent characters are the black slave, the china mulata, or the black ally who expresses sympathy or even marries the Asian character. This reflects a common history of bondage shared by black slaves, Chinese coolies, and Japanese indentured workers, as well as a common history of marronage. These conflicts and alliances between Asians and blacks contest the official discourse of mestizaje (Spanish-indigenous dichotomies in Mexico and Andean countries, for example, or black and white binaries in Brazil and the Caribbean) that, under the guise of incorporating the other, favored whiteness while attempting to silence, ignore, or ultimately erase their worldviews and cultures.

Translating New York

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Galasso
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
The City

The cultural production of Spanish-speaking New York is closely linked to the Caribbean and to Latin America at large, but the city also plays a pivotal role in the work of a host of authors from the Iberian Peninsula, writing in Spanish, Catalan, and English. In many cases, their New York City texts have marked their careers and the history of their national literatures. Drawing from a variety of genres, Translating New York recovers cultural narratives occluded by single linguistic or national literary histories, and proposes that reading these texts through the lens of translation unveils new pathways of cultural circulation and influence. Looking beyond representations of the city's physical space, Translating New York suggests that travel to the city and contact with New York's multilingual setting ignited a heightened sensitivity towards both the verbal and non-verbal languages of the city, garnering literary achievement and aesthetic innovation. Analyzing the novels, poetry, and travel narratives of Felipe Alfau, José Moreno Villa, Julio Camba, and Josep Pla, this book uncovers an international perspective of Iberian literatures. Translating New York aims to rethink Iberian literatures through the transatlantic travels of influential writers.

The Development of Accion Democratica de Venezuela

1959 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Past History ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

The election of Rómulo Betancourt as constitutional President of Venezuela for the 1959-1964 term marks a turning point in that country's political evolution and a high point in the tide of reform now sweeping Latin American toward stable constitutional government. The new president of Venezuela and the party he leads, Acción Democrática, represent the same type of reformist movement as those now flourishing in many other countries of Latin America. As a result, dictatorship in the spring of 1959 is confined to the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Paraguay. The situation in Haiti is unclear, but in the other sixteen republics the governments are controlled by parties and leaders which are to a greater or lesser degree trying to get away from the past and seem to have the support of their populations in their efforts. This marks a great change from most of the past history of the Latin American Republics in which the population was ruled by dictatorial cliques dedicated to the preservation of a status quo which meant the perpetuation of poverty and backwardness for most of the Latin Americans.

The New Nationalism in Latin America

1973 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Arthur P. Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cuban Missile Crisis ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Caribbean

Russia'S new naval presence in the Caribbean creates a situation somewhat like the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. This time, however, the problem confronting the United States, though less urgent, is more difficult in the sense that it is more complex. Its complexity arises mainly from the fact that, as regards the Latin Americans, Russia's main objective must be political. Its use of military force to coerce them is out of the question, and the scale of its trade with all of them except Cuba is too small to provide economic leverage. On the other hand, its naval penetration of the Caribbean could reasonably be expected to help promote Soviet prestige and political influence throughout Latin America.

Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840–1898

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laird W. Bergad
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean

The development of a labor force has become an important focus of recent historical research on 19th-century Puerto Rico. One center of investigation has been slavery and its linkages to sugar culture.1 Until recently historians had consistently stressed the relative insignificance of slave labor in Puerto Rico.2 However, by focusing at the municipal, or even hacienda level, scholars have begun to generate a more analytical view of 19th-century Puerto Rican slavery. It has been shown that slaves were critical for Puerto Rican planters during the period of rapid sugar expansion in the 1820s and 1830s, and continued as an important source of labor until abolition in 1873. Contrary to prior interpretations, the history of slavery in Puerto Rico differed little from that of the other sugar producing islands of the Caribbean

Scheherazade in Chains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Frydman
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
New World ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Literature ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The One

The understudied archive of Muslim slave narratives demands a reconfiguration of the early history of New World Black literature, on the one hand asserting Arabic letters and Orientalist mediations as foundational discursive sources while on the other hand directing greater attention to narrative production in West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Consistently marked in their time and ours by a racist dialectic of amnesia and surprise, these Muslim narrators draw upon devices of the Arab-Islamic tradition even as they anticipate the experiences of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation. In their enduring oscillation between obscurity and legibility, and in our own efforts to assemble their traces, we must confront and honor these narrators’ eventual retreat from interpellation, a reticence that vexes even as it structures the archive of the Global South Atlantic: resistant, dispersed, decentered, and opaque.

The Constitutional Framework of the French Caribbean

2020 ◽  
pp. 271-299
Author(s):  
David Marrani ◽  
Sacha Sydoryk
Keyword(s):  
General Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
French Caribbean ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
Saint Martin ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean

France is a unitary State. As such, it only has one unique parliament, one unique government, and one unique constitution, which lays down the framework for the governance of its territories around the world. Included amongst these territories are Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy, which are located in the Caribbean. This chapter focuses on the general framework of their functioning within the French Constitution. It begins by discussing the history of the French Caribbean. It then considers how the different territories are currently governed as an integral part of the State. It argues that the French Caribbean should not be regarded as a mere replica of the functioning of the administrative subdivisions of mainland France. The four French Caribbean territories are, to various degrees, more independent from the State’s interference than the other administrative subdivisions in mainland France.

scholarly journals Reading the archipelago

1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
Chris Bongie
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Theoretical Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The One ◽  
History Of Literature

[First paragraph]A History of Literature in the Caribbean, Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies. JAMES A. ARNOLD (ed.). Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997. xvii + 399 pp. (Cloth US$ 120.00)The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context. J. MICHAEL DASH. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xii + 197 pp. (Cloth US$ 42.50, Paper US$ 18.50)In his most recent theoretical work, Traite du Tout-Monde, Edouard Glissant stresses the virtues of what he calls "archipelagic thinking." "The entire world is becoming an archipelago," he asserts (1997:194), and for this reason we need to distance ourselves from both insular and continental ways of thinking if we are to register the complexities of that global creolization process. The archipelago is situated between the solitary confines of the islands that constitute it and the expansive territory of the mainland toward which it points, relating the one to the other while retaining its own indeterminately distinct identity. For Glissant, actual archipelagos such as the Caribbean are exemplary sites for understanding the complex new relations that ambivalently and chaotically join together all the hitherto unconnected parts of the world. As a consequence of this, the need for understanding the Caribbean as an archipelago becomes ever more pressing: the Caribbean must be considered in its archipelagic totality, as a region that can only be adequately understood through comparative, cross-cultural analysis focusing less on its discrete parts than on the way these parts exist in relation with and to one another.

scholarly journals Copyright, media and modernization in China: A historical review, 1890–2015

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Ren
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Commercial Exploitation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ownership Rights ◽  
Historical Periods

This article understands the history of copyright and media in China as co-evolution between two conflicting paradigms. One builds on the Confucian and Communist systems, where cultural production and knowledge creation are collective and commons-based, while the other is similar to the western copyright practices characterized by the legal protection and commercial exploitation of proprietary ownership rights of creative works. The article reviews the complex interplay between the two opposed paradigms in different historical periods and explores the tension between the ‘western’ models and the ‘Chinese’ traditions and characteristics in the modernization of copyright and media.

scholarly journals ANDALUSIA: Sejarah Interaksi Religius dan Linguistik

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Hidayat Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relevant Factors

<p>Abstrak: Andalusia merupakan satu bab yang sangat menarik dalam sejarah Islam, karena hentakan awalnya, tetapi juga karena ketragisan akhirnya. Tulisan ini memusatkan perhatian pada pembahasan mengenai interaksi yang terjadi antara orang Islam sebagai bangsa penakluk di satu sisi dan bangsa lokal Andalusia sebagai bangsa tertakluk di sisi lain. Kenyataan ini terkadang menimbulkan penafsiran yang hitam putih dan serba revolusioner terhadap pola hubungan dan saling pengaruh antara Muslim dan penduduk asli Andalusia dalam hal agama dan bahasa. Artikel ini mengargumentasikan bahwa, sebagaimana di tempat lain, pengaruh religius dan linguistik merupakan aspek kehidupan yang lebih substantif dan mendasar bagi sebuah masyarakat bila dibandingkan dengan aspek politik dan militer dan hal ini memerlukan proses interaksi yang intens untuk terjadi di Andalusia. Artikel ini menelusuri tahapan-tahapan interaksi tersebut dan menggarisbawahi faktor- faktor terpenting yang terlibat di dalamnya.</p><p><br />Abstract: Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain): A History of Religious and Linguistic Interaction. Islamic Spain is a chapter of Islamic history that has alway been very interesting, not only because of its shocking beginning but also because of its tragic end. The main thrust of this essay is focused on discussing the interaction between the Muslim peoples as conqueror on one side and the lokcal Andalusians as the conquered on the other. This fact often results in a black-and-white revolutionary interpretation of the relations between the conquering Arab Muslims and the conquerred Latin Christians. This article argues that, as in anywhere else in the Muslim world, religious and linguistic influence is the most substantive and fundamental aspects of social life compared to political and military aspects and such to occur in the Arab Muslims upon the locals of al-Andalus requires a long intensive interaction. The most relevant factors of the process are explained in this article.</p><p><br />Kata Kunci: Andalusia, Islamisasi, Arabisasi, Reconquista</p>

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