1. Introduction: Cultural and Literary Interactions Between Asia and Latin AmericaPart I Asian Hybrid Identities and Latin American Transnational Narratives2. (Trans)National Narratives of Identity in Federico Jeanmarie's Tacos Altos (2016)3. Identity and Poetic Memory in Lina Meruane's Volverse Palestina4. Hybrid Identities: Mexico and the Middle East in Memoria de Líbano by Carlos Martínez Assad and Casa Damasco by Maruan Soto AntakiPart II Reception and Translations of Latin American Writers in Asia5. Shared Neoliberalisms: The Cultural Affects of the Contemporary Pacific6. Fragile Bridges: Translation Theory and Translation Practices in Contemporary Transpacific Literature7. Reception of Chilean Literature and South Korean Intellectual GenealogyPart III Diffraction Worlds of Nikkei Identities8. Biopolitics, Orientalism, and the Asian Immigrant as Monster in Salazar's La medianoche del japonés and Rodríguez's Asesinato en una lavandería china9. Militancy and Imperial Masculinity in Sugi Takeo's "Revenge" and Vicente Amorim's Dirty Hearts10. Quiet Revenges: The Infinite Intensity of the Silenced History of Japanese Peruvians in Carlos Yushimito del Valle's "Ciudad de Cristal"11. The Sea and Poison: Shusaku Endo's Prelude to SilencePart IV Crossroads of Asia-Latin American Narratives and Travel Writing12. The Peripheral Spanish World in the Antipodes: The Filipino T. H. Pardo de Tavera in the Centennial Argentina13. José Rizal and the Foundational Novels of Latin America14. Is It Not So Easy to Go from West to East? A Political View of Cecília Meireles in India15. Orientalism Expanded? Latin American Travel Narratives Heading East