♦ There is little distance between exogamy and incest since Don Cándido is everyone’s father (as it were). ♦ There is no compatibility between the hierarchical, slaveowning society and the bourgeois, modern one. The secrets that must be kept from the bourgeois society cause problems: it cannot be said that Cecilia is Leonardo’s sister, so their romance … More Cecilia Valdés, again
I do not like to lose things, especially not things in which I have invested a piece of my identity, but I do it. This year so far I have lost two rings, a cell phone, and now a Mycra Pac raincoat, which is the worst loss. It was this cool nickel color and was … More Mycra Pac
The most memorable sentence in his (also favorable review) is about Latin America, of which he asks: “Where else, after all, has interracial sex been a more important source of national identities?” This 1992 review is in HAHR. As you can see, even while working a festival and spending the entire morning taking tourists around … More J. C. Chasteen on Sommer
I am working a festival this weekend so I leave you with this. Vous-autres, bourgeois de la vie maigre: lisez votre Robert Boice et portez-vous bien; some of us have duende. Axé.
Aujourd’hui je trouverai: “Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Skinner, Lee. Hispanofila Volume: 132 (2001-05-01) p. 25-42. ISSN: 0018-2206. The IILI is having its conference in México, D.F. in June, 2014 which is ideal for me. That means I need another abstract. This is the place to fire my salvo beyond … More Al azar
I will be part of this person’s gig and it will be happening by the time this post goes up. Eh toi, nous nous voyons en ville. Axé.
What Danny said about Doris’ book: In terms of its announced project, Doris Sommer’s Foundational Fictions turns to the canonical novels of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. Through a synthesis of writings about sexuality, nationalism, family history, and allegory, Sommer develops a theory of a nineteenth-century “erotic code” in order to explain … More So twentieth century
My students learned nothing from my Peninsular survey, I discern, but I learned. I should give this course as a course on the leyenda negra and the alleged problem of Spain. The final essay could request discussion of the terms in which Phillips and Phillips, in their book on Spain, seem to suggest that the … More Saldo: a peninsular post
If I have 75 students and I spend 25 hours a week grading, that is 20 minutes per student. A grader would net me 20 hours a week for research and writing. You see why people have things machine graded. You see also why the instructors, who teach up to 7 courses which means over … More Arithmetic
I do not understand this well enough yet to say it comprehensibly, but it appears that the reason I am incomprehensible as a person is that I am not trying to advance against others in the way that is considered natural. The “natural” thing, it seems, is to assume that anything anyone achieves is meant … More Incomprehensible
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