Reviewing, to see how much of this I should bring up in my departmental context now. There are lots of students in Spanish. Spanish doesn’t get enough resources and other languages feel crowded. There is lots of scholarship as well on Hispanism as a construct, by people including Gabilondo, Mariscal, Moreiras, and Resina. The situation … More What Carlos Alonso said in 2007
I tend to think it’s because I’m actually not interested, but it’s a trauma reaction. Axé.
I can’t pretend to actually read every article or manuscript I recycle without knowing where it is online, but this was a talk Rosanna Reguillo gave at Pittsburgh in 2000 and it is about violence, and maps urban interactions. Violence keeping you in your house There are more and more police The analysis of violence … More ¿Guerreros o ciudadanos?
It could be on Hispanisms and Latin Americanisms, how has the discipline been constructed? Axé.
Sé que es Mictlantecuhtli quien me arrastra, sé que es él quien me arresta y, con la toga puesta, él mismo ahora me levanta el acta. Una cárcel compacta, el Reclusorio Orientese muestra de repente como el círculo interno de otra cárcel mayor: El barrio es el infierno. Pero peor. Laberinto de feria, el oriente … More Mictlantecuhtli
Transmodernity, perhaps, for the languishing Ferreira da Silva piece. Axé.
On public history and the creation of the memory of the Cajuns. I don’t want to buy another book this week but I want to read this – and support the author. Axé.
I discovered his poem “A Cachoeira de Paulo Affonso,” and it is interesting. I also discovered a book that discusses Castro Alves, about five years old, from WVUP. Amazingly, our library has e-access to this and other works by the author! I have to re-find and re-study all of this. Of course the enslaved woman’s … More Castro Alves
I said what follows to someone but should gather good defenses of the humanities here. “Well, humanities profs don’t always respect their own discipline so they define it in terms of skills only. This is partly the fault of Teaching Goals where you are supposed to be training students to do things. My department now … More Defending the humanities
