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Leaning on two fields of expertise (literary studies and film studies), this chapter discusses two particular scenarios of the shared imagination of neoliberalism, which allow the unfolding of different considerations regarding the Pacific. In the first scenario, I go to the question of history and the erasure of the Pacific, and discuss the book La casa del dolor ajeno by the Mexican writer Julián Herbert. The second scenario is the Latin American connection in the work of the Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, addressing the question of imagination and sensorium, or the way in which neoliberal aesthetics and affects connect across the Pacific. In doing so, I propose to think the transpacific relations as a shared history and contemporaneity of affective experience. This, in turn, seeks to argue for the need to think transpacific cultural flows and circulations beyond topics of representation, identity and Otherness.
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At the time of this writing, the deal has gone into force in seven countries (Mexico , Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Vietnam) and is under ratification of the Chilean Senate. Peru, Brunei and Malaysia have yet to ratify.
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I also recommend reading Torres-Rodríguez (2018b), published after the first version of this piece, for further dimensions of the Pacific debate in Herbert’s book. Another text of recent publication is Locane (2019), which offers relevant points about the “limits of cosmopolitanism” when thinking the relationship of China and Latin America via Herbert.
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A larger discussion of her theses on Mexico’s “transpacific orientations” can be found in Torres-Rodríguez (2019).
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A parallel work that would be worth discussing in these histories is Young-Ha Kim’s Black Flower (2012). A discussion of this novel in the context of Korea-Mexico labor histories can be found in Hennessy (2015).
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Sánchez Prado, I.M. (2021). Shared Neoliberalisms: The Cultural Affects of the Contemporary Pacific. In: Gasquet, A., Majstorovic, G. (eds) Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America. Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52571-2_5
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