I discovered his poem “A Cachoeira de Paulo Affonso,” and it is incredibly weird. I also discovered a book that discusses Castro Alves, about five years old, from WVUP. I have to re-find and re-study all of this. Of course the enslaved woman’s rapist is the half-brother of her enslaved beloved. It’s an inversion of … 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