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About the Author Ignacio López-Calvo is a professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of five books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture: Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction Since 1973 (Routledge, 2001); Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis, 1963–2000 (Mellen, 2002); “Trujillo and God”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (University Press of Florida, 2005); Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida , 2007); and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety (University of Arizona Press, 2011). In addition, he has edited the books Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012); Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2007); and One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009); and co-edited Caminos para la paz: Literatura israelí y árabe en castellano (Corregidor, 2008). He is the co-executive director of the academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. ...

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