Literary and Cultural Connections in the Spanish-Speaking World

Introduction Journeys between Wests and Easts: Literary and cultural connections from and toward the Spanish-speaking world.-Part I: Crossroads between Asia and Latin America: writing through traveling and traveling through reading.- Juan Bustamante: the first non-creole, non-lettered Latin American who lived and wrote the nineteenth-century China.-Travel Writings as Re-Writings of the East: In light of India by Octavio Paz and Coronada de Mosca by Margo Glanz.- The Asian Signs of the Cuban Neobaroque: A Reading of Lezama and Sarduy.-Part II: Journeys across narratives of identity: Easts and Wests in the hybridity.-Japón no da dos oportunidades de Augusto Higa Oshiro: the birth of a Peruvian Nisei Writer.-Palestinian-Chilean Decolonialist Discourse in La llave by Esperanza Marzouka.-Displacement and Sexile in the Films Fireflies (2019) by Bani Khoshnoudi and Happy Together (1997) by Wong Karwai.-From Miseries of the East to the Glorification of the West: An Orientalist Insight in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (You Only Live Once) and Represtation of India In Hispanic Cinema.-Part III: The Philippines in Spanish: The West in the East?.-Alejandro Cubero and Elísea Raguer, two Spanish Zarzuelistas in the Development of Filipino Lyrical Theater (from 1881 to 1897).-Los ascensos del inspectorRojo (The Ascents of Inspector Rojo, 1924) by Guillermo Gómez Windham: The Optimistic Face of the Philippines under American Tutelage.