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Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia
Martín Camps and Jie Lu
This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the two regions' historical traumas, cultural identities, indigenous/vernacular traditions, and peripheral global-ness. The volume argues that Asian and Latin American literary and cultural endeavors are part of these regions' broader efforts to search for the forms of modernity that best fit their unique sociohistorical and sociocultural conditions.
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Dialogues on the Delta: Approaches to the City of Stockton
Martín Camps
This collection of essays examines the city of Stockton, California from an interdisciplinary perspective. Stockton is in the heart of the Central Valley, an agricultural region that comprises a diverse population and rich history. This book covers the economic downturn of the city that was ground zero for the housing market crisis during the Great Recession, which resulted in it becoming the first major American city to declare bankruptcy. Nevertheless, the city cannot be framed only on its economic misfortunes; Stockton has a vibrant community with important historical figures such as Martín Ramírez, an outsider painter who was a patient in the Stockton State Hospital. This book also covers topics such as food studies, religious communities, historical resources at the library at the University of the Pacific, business community programs such as “Puentes”, an overview of the city’s racial diversity, auto-ethnographies, the family connection to Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, and a program at the Stockton High School during WWII to send jeeps as part of the war effort. This book is informed by the perspectives of historians, sociologists, political scientists, economists, business scholars, and literary and cultural studies theorists to provide a wide range of approaches to a vital community in the Central Valley of California.
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La sonrisa afilada. Enrique Serna ante la crítica
Martín Camps
Observador mordaz de la realidad y la historia nacionales y dueño de un humor despiadado por incisivo, Enrique Serna es uno de los escritores mexicanos contemporáneos más reconocidos. Prolífico artífice de ocho novelas, tres volúmenes de cuentos, tres de ensayos y un libro para niños, además de biografías, libretos para televisión y columnas periodísticas, Serna se ha erigido como un moralista crítico y feroz alejado del tono medio con que la literatura nacional disfraza tantas veces su gazmoñería, al mostrarnos el reverso absurdo de la vida cotidiana, con sus amores desastrados, el patetismo de hombres y mujeres comunes y la sátira de los "usos y costumbres" del imaginario nacional. El presente volumen aborda su obra desde distintos enfoques críticos y ofrece un panorama que abre caminos para iniciar un diálogo con una obra en que el humor negro y el discurso políticamente incorrecto constituyen una estrategia de transgresión. Se reúnen nueve ensayos académicos a cargo de sendos especialistas, además de trece reseñas y una entrevista publicadas previamente por escritores de diversas generaciones que tienen como objetivo continuar la reflexión sobre uno de nuestros autores fundamentales y su particular universo narrativo, punzantemente cruel.
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Latin American Women Filmmakers: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Traci Roberts-Camps
Women are noticeably marginalized from the Latin American film industry, with lower budgets and inadequate distribution, and they often rely on their creativity to make more interesting films. This book highlights the voices and stories of some of these directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Roberts-Camps’s insightful exploration is the most broad-ranging account of its kind, making the book relevant to the study of literature as well as film.
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Petición a la NASA para incluir en su próximo viaje al espacio a un poeta y otros poemas
Martín Camps and Anthony Seidman
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Horas de oficina
Martín Camps
En Horas de oficina, de Martin Camps, se nos relatan los avatares vividos en primera persona por un profesor universitario que lleva a cabo su ejercicio docente en Estados Unidos, mas concretamentae en una universidad de Florida. Se nos cuenta mas bien el proceso que protagoniza hasta llegar alli, pues la trama se inicia on su salida de Mexico para realizar un postgrado en la Universidad de Californa. In office hours , Martin Camps , we are told avatars lived in first person by a university professor who conducted their teaching in the United States, more concretamentae in a Florida university . We are told rather the process that carries to get there , because the plot starts on his departure from Mexico for a postgraduate degree at the University of Californa
A selection of books and book chapters written or edited by faculty from the Department of Modern Languages & Literature within the College of the Pacific at University of the Pacific.
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