There are so many teaching guides on this, the students love the film, and you can have them read part of the book. I think I will start using all of this in a systematic way although it is not my personal favorite. They can learn to map the story, summarize, do a character sketch, … More Diarios de motocicleta
These are books I would like to see, but they are too expensive for what they are even on my grant money. Cuba and the new origenismo. But wait — it is on JSTOR! Trafficking knowledge in early twentieth century Spain. It is on JSTOR too! Axé.
I was quite taken with this artist, some of whose work we saw last summer in Baltimore. Axé.
I had this poem idea a long time ago and I really think I should write it. Driver’s assistant is a very active job. Part of it involves shouting directions. This is the skeleton beat of the poem-song. Centro, centro Sube sube sube sube VAMOS (entra entra) BAJA baja baja baja VAMOS Avenida Avenida BAJA … More Song of a driver’s assistant in a Peruvian kombi
I read at the New Orleans Poetry Festival, from our translation manuscript (a revised version of the first of these poems, and some others). People liked them and thought the book has a future. I met, and got to talk to and hang out with Salgado Maranhão, his translator Alexis Levitin, the Poet in New … More Le succès
I am going to California soon, but already need to buy a second flight, for the following trip. What I will do during THIS trip is order all of the books I can, for both grants, and find out how to use the university grant — and if I need a university credit card. I … More In California
If you wish me to direct an independent project, please see the AA and fill out the departmental application. Please also read the following and prepare a written application to me. 1/ Independent research is independent research. I will advise and guide you but I will not: – tutor you through a regular course that … More On independent study
I learned about this book from Clarissa’s blog and am now reading it as well. This post is an aide-mémoire, not a full discussion. a. The exploitation of freedom. “Freedom will prove to have been merely an interlude.” It is felt when passing from one way of living to another, until this too turns out … More Psychopolitics 1: the crisis of freedom
Dustin Welch García, Book Review of Imagined Globalization, AmeriQuests 12.1 (2015). Nestor García Canclini. 2014. Imagined Globalization, trans. G. Yúdice. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Pages: 242. Paperback: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8223-5461-1 The recent English translation and publication of Nestor García Canclini’s Imagined Globalization, which first appeared in Spanish in 1999, offers a nuanced examination … More Imagined globalization (reviewed by Dustin Welch García)
I started being depressed on November 19, 1991 and may have stopped on April 3, 2019. That makes it less than 28 years. Most people I know have not known me that long. But the cause would have been deciding it was necessary to take Da Whiteman’s ideas seriously and the cure, realizing exactly how … More “Saving my strength for running”
