{"id":41002,"date":"2015-04-29T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41002"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:51:51","slug":"dragons-in-the-land-of-the-condor-writing-tusan-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41002","title":{"rendered":"Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tus\u00e1n in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tus\u00e1n in Peru<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Arizona Press<\/a>
\n2014
\n264 pages
\n6.00 x 9.00
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0<\/p>\n

Ignacio L\u00f3pez-Calvo<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Latin American Literature
\nUniversity of California, Merced<\/em><\/p>\n

Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Emeritus<\/p>\n

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Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei<\/a> cultural production in Peru<\/a>, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor<\/em> Ignacio L\u00f3pez-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.<\/p>\n

While authors like Siu Kam Wen and Julia Wong often rely on their Chinese cultural heritage for inspiration, many others, like Pedro Zulen, Mario Wong, and Julio Villanueva Chang, choose other sources of inspiration and identification. L\u00f3pez-Calvo studies the different strategies used by these writers to claim either their belonging in the Peruvian national project or their difference as a minority ethnic group within Peru. Whether defending the rights of indigenous Peruvians, revealing the intricacies of a life of self-exploitation among Chinese shopkeepers, exploring their identitarian dilemmas, or re-creating\u2014beyond racial memory\u2014life under the political violence in Lima<\/a> of the 1980s, these authors provide their community with a voice and a collective agency, while concomitantly repositioning contemporary Peruvian culture as transnational.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez-Calvo bridges from his earlier study of Peruvian Nikkei’s testimonials and literature and raises this question: why are Chinese Peruvian authors seemingly more disconnected from their Asian heritage than Japanese Peruvian authors from theirs? The author argues that the Chinese arrival in Peru half a century earlier influenced a stronger identification with the criollo<\/a> world. Yet he argues that this situation may soon be changing as the new geopolitical and economic influence of the People’s Republic of China<\/a> in the world, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, affects the way Chinese and Sino\u2013Latin American communities and their cultures are produced and perceived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tus\u00e1n in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio L\u00f3pez-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodr\u00edguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,21,1196,8,17],"tags":[221,20000,19995,19994,19999,19998,19997,674,19996,1486],"class_list":["post-41002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-books","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-china","tag-chinese-peruvian","tag-eugenio-chang-rodriguez","tag-ignacio-lopez-calvo","tag-julio-villanueva-chang","tag-mario-wong","tag-pedro-zulen","tag-peru","tag-siu-kam-wen","tag-university-of-arizona-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}