- Keith McDuffie, in Insula (sept.-oct. 1992), CV y la identidad cultural. Says Vallejo has moderidad and mestizaje, and that he never lost his cultural identity … McD even says he’s the author of the era who is most concerned about this issue, writing about peruanidad in his thesis. CV (in a Borges-like way) isn’t interested in superficial signs of Latin Americanness, but he’s very, very Ibero-American, says McD (he does have that line about how Lorca is andaluz and nobody complains, why can’t he be Peruvian). AND he emphasizes the Indo-American aporte to world culture. (My note: that is, the Mariátegui ideas.)
- Bernard McGuirk. Latin American Literature. Symptoms, risks and strategies of post-structuralist criticism. Routledge, 1997, and it’s an interesting book. He also edited this. Part of chapter 4 and all of 5 are on Vallejo; 5 is on writing and orality in Trilce. I had typed notes on this that I am also recycling. The most important of all the points: T invites poststructuralist analysis but is also symptomatic of, or prefigures, poststrucuralism’s own discursive tensions.
- Joan Dassin. Política e Poesia em Mário de Andrade. Duas Cidades, 1978. I believe this was written in English and translated by Antônio Dimas. It’s a classic … but if I need it, I will get another photocopy.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 