* Contact J.H. on speaker – pick things up from the office before leaving – sign payroll upon return, and visit the library – visit REI and the ASUC store in August – see R.W. June 12 *
I will write and submit the abstract here, and so should you. (The conference starts on a Thursday and I’ll teach my first class, farm the other two out, and go.) // Note that the leyes nuevas (promulgated 1542 although not enforced) abolished indigenous slavery. This gave indigenous persons a right others (Spaniards, Africans) did not have even in Spain, and was done because in the Americas it was so easy to justify enslavement of indigenous persons in the absence of an absolute prohibition. (Slavery had been abolished in France in 1315 and this stuck, although the concept was not applied to the colonies.)
I will finish my book orders for the grant and also work as much as I can on the syllabus and reading for that class. I will clear out at least some of my files and paperwork.
I will make my plans for Florida and beyond. I will look up the Rob Stone books as well.
I will visit the ASUC store and REI. I will see Liz and Susan for work, and maybe others, for fun.
For the abstract, very rough:
Is it Bhabha, Mary L. Pratt, Said, who, how many say that looking at oneself through the eyes of the metropolis is a colonial trope? In Cecilia Valdés Villaverde represents Cuba with New Orleans eyes (Cuba sees itself through other eyes) but the New Orleans through which Cuba is seen is itself a construction based upon Northeastern tourists’ perceptions of Haitian immigrants. What was the French, but also heavily Spanish Louisiana actually like, before Americanization and also before the refrancesamiento created another fantasy image of the state? I will look at C. V. and K. Chopin but also G. W. Cable and A. Carpentier, but also N.O. press and lesser known writers like Charles Gayarré.
Axé.
