coldhearted scientist وداد

Offprints I am recycling today: Vicky Unruh on MariAtegui, a very important text but that is now available electronically, and David Whisnant on RubEn DarIo as a focal cultural figure in Nicaragua, a text I must reread. Comments I received today: law, power, and the state are the themes of (my) interest in my Stanford paper–and that it’s unclear why I am addressing certain questions I address (the reason is that the editors had these questions; they aren’t questions for me).

My seminar will be on gender, though. Authors: Lorca, AnzaldUa, Preciado, Emmelhainz, and I guess I need some straight people as well … or do I? Some feminist things from earlier people could introduce the course: Sor Juana’s Respuesta; Flora TristAn (yes, I know she’s French, but “La emancipaciOn de la mujer” is really important; Emilia Pardo BazAn. Is there gender critique from a man early on? Quance suggests a straight author confronted with a modern woman: José Moreno Villa’s Jacinta la pelirroja.

Then we get into Lorca; we can read some of the tamer things, about women, but we WILL also read some of the gayer and gayest.

AnzaldUa texts are Borderlands/La Frontera and parts of This Bridge Called My Back; I guess we should have some of the later work but maybe not. I think she’s more interesting on gender than on race and the new mestiza is a kind of liberated woman, anyway.

Then Paul Preciado and guess what: his books are available on Kindle, for low prices. Of him, I want to read the Manifiesto contrasexual, Yo soy el monstruo que os habla, and Un apartamento en Urano, but all of this things are interesting. (Maybe we should read him first.)

Then Emmelhainz, unless she is too difficult. But Amores tOxicos really does talk about a lot of artists, and I am impressed by her. There’s also María Galindo, Feminismo bastardo.

There are films I can have people watch, classic ones. De eso no se habla, Y tu mamA tambiEn, and more. And there could be old films like Tristana. We’ll see.

And we do want some kind of research project at the end. I should try to structure this like the Lorca class. The book reviews went well and were taken seriously there, and I note that this happened in Nacho’s class too.

Axé.