Another unfinished paper I have is on Tropicalismo. I am reminded of it by this post. I do not know that it fits into what I am doing now but I should finish it. The text is quite interesting; it got out of my control and Tropicalismo began to look like the boom novel; that … More Tropicália
Syntax Is a Second Skin. First manifesto of Infrarealism. Diez poemas y once poetas infrarrealistas. A sociologist discusses Roberto Bolaño. There is a Society for the Proliferation of Visceral Realism but Visceral Realism is a fictional poetic movement. I would prefer to work on poetry today, and do something athletic. Axé.
I still claim Spanish literature after 1700 is, with some exceptions, bland and pedantic compared to what you can read from other countries, but then I do not know it well enough to actually defend this view. Now Words Without Borders has a massive issue on contemporary Spanish literature in translation. They say: Read Fernando … More On current Spanish literature
Ana del Sarto on estudios culturales latinoamericanos; Jesús Martín-Barbero on estudios culturales latinoamericanos – video – audio is very low; Mónica Szurmuk and Robert Irwin on estudios culturales latinoamericanos – video; students would think it strange if they found out I know all these people; they do not realize we all know each other. Axé.
Martineau, apud Aslakson, emphasis added: What security for domestic purity and peace can be where every man has had two connections, one of which must be concealed; and two families whose existence must not be known to each other; where the conjugal relations begin in treachery, and must be carried on with a heavy secret … More Half revealed, half concealed
This book exists at LSU, Tulane, and the Louisiana State Library. I must acquire and read it as it apparently describes the experience of this Louisiana historian and his Creole concubine. I found out about it on the plaçage wiki which, interestingly, locates plaçage in Saint-Domingue and in various other places, but not in Havana. … More Fernando de Lemos. Truth and fiction. A novel. Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895. New York, G. W. Carleton, 1872.
In Poligramas 25 (2006) Noé Jitrik ends his commentary on María thus: El arte de Isaacs reside en las alusiones, en las suposiciones detrás de las cuales todos comprenden la verdad que por pudor se oculta, en los cambios de plano, de lo subjetivo a lo objetivo, lo cual crea una atmósfera de veladuras no … More Psychoanalysis
The history of Arizona. This is a key topic for alleged Hispanists. An interesting paper on intertextuality in María: the problems are reading Napoleon’s diary and mimetic desire. Thomas Ward’s bibliography on María. ♦ On racism and the racial divide in Venezuela. On gentrification and the “new urbanism”– the next racial project. Adolph Reed on … More Catch of the day
“Still, modern historian Francisco Scarano (1993:199) has argued that by the seventeenth century mestizos “were probably more numerous than the Spaniards themselves.” What may be at stake here is not the definition of “mestizo,” but rather the definition of “Spaniard.” Mestizos, especially those born legitimately and who lived according to accepted colonial norms were being … More Stuart Schwartz
On a book by Joshua Good: Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator’s racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco’s idea of race–that of a National Catholic state as the happy … More Impurity of Blood
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