That was the title of a review essay on Postethnic America and other books (W. B. Michaels’ Our America is one) by Eric Lott, almost 28 years ago when all these things were new. I kept my photocopy because I liked my underlinings and notes, and a lot of things, like the Amiri Baraka epigraph. … More The New Cosmopolitanism
Sunday: located the abstract I wrote and didn’t use, to revamp for the MLA. My goal this week is to work on this abstract so now I have done one thing toward that. Also this week I must do more toward that speaker, and work on syllabi and exams. Re syllabi, one is the Bolaño … More Log 18-23 February
I have had a hard time the last couple of days, I wanted to take them off but it seemed I couldn’t get a cat sitter, so I engaged in heavy procrastination. Or did I? I read a lot of news and thought about it, and I enjoyed that, actually, although I felt I should … More Luz Gambás
I won’t list all the books I have in a bag to donate, because it will make me quail. They are books I would keep if I did not have others. Famous anthologies of avant-garde writing, famous editions, Suleiman’s Subversive Intent, still-valid Footprint guides to Central America, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, things like this. But the … More Mapas anatómicos de César Vallejo
This journal issue is too old to keep but … people like Leopoldo Zea are good to know. Here is a PDF of the whole thing. Axé.
From the files: a Nation article I had kept, on GW Bush’s use of language. He creates dependency by scaring people and painting himself as the savior, so people will do as he says. “Empty language” is one term the article uses; another is “personalization,” which he uses instead of argumentation. The third is “negative … More 2003
It was an old journal issue when I bought it and I’m only recycling it now, partly because it was the first issue of that journal I ever acquired, when I had just discovered it, and partly because it has an article by Jean Franco, now classic, that I still want to re-study. As an … More RCLL Year 2 Issue 3
I am recycling books by these authors, and in presses like Biblioteca Ayacucho, and one of them was my father’s copy and has his handwriting in it. All of them are classic, good, useful, in field, that I hope to need, but that I do not in fact open, and could reacquire. I have to … More Ades, Schwartz, Sucre, Osorio, Paz, Verani
Important things today: I had some progress on the MLA panel, and then started working on an abstract for the MLA that is based on what I need to figure out for C19. In both cases, I seemed to crack something. I also got the flights for California ready, and the hotels. I was too … More Mestizo Self-Fashioning
We have to watch this. On the Shah of Iran. The 2,500th anniversary, and all. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 