coldhearted scientist وداد

Yes, I am slow. But I’m getting rid of papers and looking at them. That means I am moving ahead. I’m even working on my vita.

1. I thought I should read Adela y Matilde. One wants it with Joaquín Marco’s introduction.
2. I was thinking that the problem of our program was that integrity was challenged and undermined. (In my papers I find SO many cogently written pleas for normal governance and normal support, I have stopped even saving them all)
3. Mestizaje as national ideology started in Mexico with the Porfiriato. My notes say Mexican literature was articulated as “indiana” before that and I wonder what was meant. It was in a talk on the function of literature in Mexico 1810-1870, and the speaker said Lizardi’s mother had denounced him to the Inquisition. Author was Gerardo Francisco Bobadilla Encinas, from the U of Sonora, MX, and I should find the piece.
4. There is a book at Duke UP called Domination without Dominance, and it’s about early Peru. Alterity, someone said, implied lack of mastery, construction of meaning on the fly, as happens with the cronistas. I am still curous about this.
5. What about literature that does NOT support the estado moderno liberal? Wladimir Márquez discussed a novel, Los piratas de la sabana, a “marginal” novel, first out in 1896 in folletín but then, if I understand my notes, republished every time there is a national crisis, well into the 20th century.
6. People were upset because immigrants were able to consume and to change social classes. This is why conspicuous consumption is disliked.
7. I really did like to study, I always did, still do.

Axé.