It is about Haiti, Jamaica and New Orleans and I have to read it for research reasons. I am against Zora Neale Hurston because she and hers boiled a black cat in New Orleans, and I am against New Orleans vodun. Nonetheless I now have to read this book for research reasons. Axé.
On Facebook, one of my Friends had been invited to an event far from him and declined with regret, as a result of which I saw what the event was and Liked it. I really did like it, too, and I wish I could go for research reasons. Immediately the author of the event Friended … More Using Facebook for Research
→I do not like my paper title and it wants to be in Spanish, anyway. I could do another paper, too, on Latinness and the idea of the Hispanic; somehow this could fit into my book; I actually gave a paper like that years ago and did not get back to it; it is one … More El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza, estado, latinidad
I did not know about this. Franco apparently had a mestizo theory of Spanish identity that was important to his conception of the nation. (Joshua Goode’s book is really good.) Axé.
This book is coming out. I have been saying such a book was needed. Is it really the first biography of Vallejo? I would not have said so but it may be the first of its kind. The flyer I got from the publisher today alleged the book could be had for $7.95, so look … More A literary biography of Vallejo
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
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