Ignacio López-CalvoUniversity of California, Merced | UCM · School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Ignacio López-Calvo
Ph.D. in Romance Languages
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August 2008 - January 2015
August 1997 - June 2005
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August 1991 - June 1997
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You are all invited to present papers in Spanish, Portuguese, or English devoted to the general topic of the conference, Voyages between the West and the East, Travellers, and New Realities, or to one of the following subthemes (the Committee may accept other subthemes related to the general theme of the conference):
- Travel writing
- Filipino l...
La historiografía dominante, los estudios culturales y la literatura americana fueron tradicionalmente concebidos dentro de un marco intelectual bipolar que excluyó casi todos los aportes que estuviesen por fuera de la relación América-Europa. El universo americano poseía en esta perspectiva apenas dos dimensiones: la precolombina y la criolla. Por...
From his first fifteen years in Chile, to his nine years in Mexico City from 1968 to 1977, to the quarter of a century he lived and worked in the Blanes-Barcelona area on the Costa Brava in Spain through his death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño developed into an astonishingly diverse, prolific writer. He is one of the most consequential and widely read of...
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As part of the Japanese Empire’s expansionist designs, Japanese immigrants in Latin America were expected to be successful and to exhibit an exemplary behavior in the host countries in order to improve the international prestige of Japan as a modern, philanthropic nation that was willing to support the local, rural economies with its diligent labor...
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Dándole un giro a la teoría de Fredric Jameson sobre la importancia de la lucha de clases para acceder al inconsciente político en los estudios literarios y sobre el uso de la narrativa como método para reprimir colectivamente las contradicciones históricas, en este ensayo propongo desviar o añadir otro tipo de contradicción histórica reprimida: la...
Cultura de Guatemala, cuarta época: año XLI, vol. I, enero-junio de 2020: 3-26 Cinco tendencias críticas en el latinoamericanismo académico Ignacio López-Calvo 1 Resumen En este ensayo, propongo una visión panorámica de cinco enfoques críticos académicos que considero preponderantes frentre a los muchos que han aparecido últimamente en Latinoaméric...
The increasing cultural production by Latin American and the Caribbean authors of Chinese and Japanese ancestry in recent decades reflects the emergence of two diasporic, minority discourses that are redefining national cultures by making them more transnational and by calling into question the white-indigenous and white-black dichotomies of the di...
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note...
This essay explores the rhetorical maneuver of resemanticizing the xenophobic and ultranationalist concept of Yamato-damashii (the Japanese spirit) in the manga Los samuráis de México. It also studies the celebration of the liminal position taken by the first Nikkei pioneers in Mexico and how the manga encourages today’s Mexican Nikkeijin to follow...
“Global South aesthetics of anxiety: (Un)rooted cosmopolitanisms in Castellanos Moya’s El sueño del retorno and Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.” (With Garima Panwar) Migrating Minds: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Cultural Cosmopolitanism in Theory and Practice. Ed. Didier Coste, Christina Kona, and Nicoletta Pireddu. Routledge, 2021. 117-29.
Edited by Gene Bell-Villada and Ignacio López-Calvo. Oxford University Press, 2021.
From drought to deluge, climate extremes are mobilizing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse, which has until now largely focused on human power over water. This volume unites preeminent and emerging voices across humanistic disciplines to develop a new discourse called the hydrohumanities, dedicated to examining water-human-power relat...
From drought to deluge, climate extremes are mobilizing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse, which has until now largely focused on human power over water. This volume unites preeminent and emerging voices across humanistic disciplines to develop a new discourse called the hydrohumanities, dedicated to examining water-human-power relat...
From drought to deluge, climate extremes are mobilizing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse, which has until now largely focused on human power over water. This volume unites preeminent and emerging voices across humanistic disciplines to develop a new discourse called the hydrohumanities, dedicated to examining water-human-power relat...
From drought to deluge, climate extremes are mobilizing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse, which has until now largely focused on human power over water. This volume unites preeminent and emerging voices across humanistic disciplines to develop a new discourse called the hydrohumanities, dedicated to examining water-human-power relat...
“Water, extractivism, biopolitics, and Latin American indigeneity in Arguedas’s
Los ríos profundos and Potdevin’s Palabrero.” (with Hugo López-Chavolla). Ed. Kim DeWolf, Rina Faletti, Ignacio López-Calvo. 2021.
García Márquez’s writing is a literary order that will continue to be read, studied, and learned so long as there are practitioners, students, and lovers of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude, of course, is admired by millions across the world, from high school students to major novelists such as Salman Rushdie and the late Toni Morrison. Th...
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García Márquez’s writing is a literary order that will continue to be read, studied, and learned so long as there are practitioners, students, and lovers of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude, of course, is admired by millions across the world, from high school students to major novelists such as Salman Rushdie and the late Toni Morrison. Th...
This chapter studies the biopolitical repercussions of monstrifying ethnic minorities by comparing a Peruvian novel in which a Japanese immigrant is described as a monster with a Mexican novel in which Chinese Mexican characters have actually become vampires. In different ways, Salazar’s La medianoche del japonés (1991) and Rodríguez’s Asesinato en...
This chapter explores how Latin American Modernismo influenced Spanish-language Filipino writers, and Jesús Balmori in particular, as well as how this influence came to an abrupt end. More specifically, I focus on the limits of literary Modernismo in Los pájaros de fuego, a novel that openly rejects the Japonaiserie popularized by Latin American mo...
Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel...
WHERE: University of SouthEastern Norway, Campus Bø (Norway) You are all invited to present papers in Spanish, Portuguese, or English devoted to the general topic of the conference, Spanish-Language Filipino Cultural Production, or to one of the following subthemes (the Committee may accept other subthemes related to the general theme of the confer...
Ed. JM. Persánch and Fabricio Silva. Madrid: Pliegos, 2020.
“Magical Realism in the Context of Cold War Cultural Interventions” (co-
authored with Nicholas Birns). Ed. Andrew Hammond. , 2020.
Resumen: Con motivo de la celebración en 2019 del Quinto Centenario del comienzo de la circunnavegación del plante que comenzó Magallanes y completó Elcano, partiendo de Sevilla el 10 de agosto de 1519, el gobierno español ha presentado una agenda abierta a propuestas y mecenazgo hasta 2022, con más de 200 actividades propuestas de las que por ahor...
Con motivo de la celebración en 2019 del Quinto Centenario del comienzo de la circunnavegación del plante que comenzó Magallanes y completó Elcano, partiendo de Sevilla el 10 de agosto de 1519, el gobierno español ha presentado una agenda abierta a propuestas y mecenazgo hasta 2022, con más de 200 actividades propuestas de las que por ahora se han...
Blanco, Juan. Hermenéutica nihilista decolonial. Guatemala: Universidad Rafael
Landívar, Editorial Cara Parens, 2019. Cultura de Guatemala 40.2, July-
Dec. 2019, 137-40.
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 b...
“La muerte del autor mediante la falsa traducción en el Japón de Mario Bellatin.”
Ed. Axel Gasquet and Georges Lomné. Lima: , 2018. (Translation of an article previously published in English)
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 b...
Review of Julia A. Kushigian's Crónicas orientalistas y autorrealizadas: entrevistas con
Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy y Mario Vargas Llosa. Madrid: Verbum, 2016. Hispanófila 182 (Jan 2018): 199-201
Julia A. Kushigian. Crónicas orientalistas y autorrealizadas: entrevistas con
Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy y Mario Vargas Llosa. Madrid: Verbum, 2016. Hispanófila 182 (Jan 2018): 199-201
“El discurso y la producción nikkei en Brasil: epistemicidio, desentificación y
temporalidad dividida.” 86.2 (July 2018): 203-26
“Exoticization, Mestiçagem, and Brazilian national consciousness in Carlos
Diegues’s Quilombo.” . Ed. Rudyard Alcocer. Knoxville:
, 2018.
Theosophy and Eastern religions and creeds, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, and Taoism, have influenced Latin American literature since the Modernistas. Canonical authors such as Neruda, Borges, Cortázar, Paz, and Sarduy have addressed these Eastern believes in different ways. While for the Modernista they were a escapist tool and...
“‘Coloniality is not over, it is all over:’ Interview with Dr. Walter Mignolo (Nov.
2014. Part I) Transmodernity 6.1 (Spring 2016): 175-84
Edward King , Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. x + 214, £60.00, hb. - Volume 48 Issue 4 - IGNACIO LÓPEZ-CALVO
“Resistance and the Limits of National Belonging in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A
Travessia Nihondin-Brasil.” New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: , 2016.
Translation, Unreliable Narrators, and the Comical Use of (Pseudo-)Magical
Realism in Of Love and Other Demons.”. 2016.
Maja Horn’s Masculinity After Trujillo is an important contribution to Dominican, Caribbean, and Latin American studies. After the introduction, the first chapter “De-tropicalizing the Trujillo Dictatorship and Dominican Masculinity” analyzes speeches by Rafael Trujillo, Joaquín Balaguer, and other nationalist Dominican letrados to unearth the keys...
“La locura literaria como vehículo de autorrevelación cultural en La iluminación
de Katzuo Nakamatsu y Japón no da dos oportunidades de Augusto Higa.”
“Roberto Bolaño’s Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard.”
“Why didn’t Amberes Embarrass Roberto Bolaño? The Reification of Anti-
Realism and an Interest in Disinterestedness.”
Magical Realism analyzes its evolution as well as its manifestations in different cultures. Several essays discuss the struggle between the hegemonic imposition of western modernity and subaltern, ethnicized, nonwestern conceptualizations in the Third World. Magical realist cultural production is thus seen as a tool for questioning Eurocentric view...
Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of
This is an outstanding study with a solid theoretical background. It will probably become a key text in the relatively new subfield of Asian–Latin America...
Villanueva Chang "translates" the world around him through his chronicles and profiles, often trying to express the ineffable through paradoxes, antitheses, and contradictions sprinkled with irony, humor, and perhaps a hardly veiled resignation. His characters are a reflection of what human relationships are like in the places where they live; conc...
Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors. While authors like Siu Kam Wen and Julia Wong often rely on their Chinese cultural herita...
Refugiados y Asalto al Paraíso de Marcos Aguinis: apropiaciones y reapropiaciones del discurso palestino Ignacio López-Calvo University of California—Merced Reiteradamente se le pidió a la ANP que arrestara a los que organizan atentados. Así lo han exigido Europa, Rusia, Estados Unidos y las Naciones Unidas. Pero la excusa fue que no se quiere dese...
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Dear Colleagues,
The title of our yearly conference is "Intercultural Dialogues and Crossings among the East, the Americas, and the Iberian Peninsula." The keynote speaker will be the Mexican poet, novelist and playwright Carmen Boullosa. It will take place at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, in New York, on March 26-27, 2015. Please inform your colleagues and graduate students.
SUBTHEMES...
You are invited to present a paper dedicated to one of the following subthemes (other subthemes related to the main theme of the conference will be accepted.)- Western travelers in Japan
- Japanese travelers in the West
- Image of Japan in Hispanic literature and culture
- Image of the Hispanic world in Japanese literature and culture
- Japonisme
- Orientalism and self-orientalization in Japanese and Nippon-Latin American cultural production
- Hispanic Orientalism in literature and film
- Trans-Pacific Studies
- Travel narratives
- Exoticization and idealization of the Oriental “Other”
- Orientalism and Occidentalism
- Asian and Arab literature and culture in the Hispanic world
- Cooleism
- Asian and Arab testimonials, memoirs, and autobiographies
- Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Hispanic world
- Asian and Arab Diasporas
- Filipino literature in Spanish
- Chinatowns in the Americas
- Asian and Arab religiosity and "witchcraft" in the Americas
- Transculturation and hybridity
- Transnationalism and globalization
- Racialization of Jews in the Hispanic world
- Orientalism and the Asian and Arab presence in the Lusophone world
