Dragons in the land of the condor
Subtitle: writing tusán in Peru
By: Ignacio López-Calvo ; foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez
Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780816531110
Subjects: Peruvian literature; History and criticism; Chinese authors
Other titles: Writing tusán in Peru; Tusán in Peru
Description: "The book considers the influence of a Chinese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Sino-Peruvian authors"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez; title: Acknowledgments; title: A note on translation; title: Introduction; title: Immigration, resistance, and the emergence of a tusán discourse; title: Pedro Zulen, the Founder of Sino-Peruvian Writing; title: Negotiations of difference within national borders: Sino-Peruvian diasporic identity and community as prison in Siu Kam Wen's writing; title: Between national borders: Julia Wong Kcomt's and Sui Yun's cosmopolitanism and post-national identities; title: Beyond racial memory: Mario Wong, Julio León, and the seduction of political violence; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Chronological list of analyzed works; title: Works cited; title: Index.