Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World

Ignacio López–Calvo

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Latin American Literature Analysis Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity

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DefinitionTheosophy and eastern religions and creeds such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, and Taoism have influenced Latin American literature since the Modernistas.Canonical authors such as Neruda, Borges, Cortázar, Paz, and Sarduy have addressed these eastern beliefs in different ways.While for the Modernista they were an escapist tool and Neruda openly rejects them, other authors such as Tablada and Paz resort to them to try to understand their own countries or to find the keys of eroticism (the case of Paz and Sarduy).In turn, for Borges, eastern religions are a metaphor for infinite time, fantasy, and utopia and for Sarduy a path to personal enlightenment.

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