This novel is about the problems of white society defining itself; there are all these Afro-Cuban characters with interesting stories but the issues on which the novel centers itself are managing these people and defining whiteness, distinguishing degrees of whiteness (see J. C. Sánchez, apud Monteleone). The OJO CONOCEDOR is the OJO NACIONAL because only … More Cecilia Valdés
Now we have two novels in my chapter or essay which are explicitly about building the white nation, to the extent that they are about building one. That means it is time for more, or time to work on theoretical framework and structure. (I have always been outraged when people call cultural appropriation and ethnic … More Still more of that article
In this novel and the society it portrays, the maintenance of racially segregated families (the planter with an official and an unofficial family) leads to incest, which destabilizes the patriarchy because it collapses the control the planter maintains and also supports and extends by having multiple, separate families. This threatens to destroy (and not support) … More The last three paragraphs of that article
Here is a good thought-piece, Fields Have Narratives, and Words Without Borders is one of the places I think I should publish fiction. Today instead I discovered the current location of a good scholar of the Spanish Enlightenment, and I joined the SCMLA for three years. I am going to submit to its conference in … More Sol y sombra II
Friday is my day off. I woke up with aching muscles, not of the kind one gets from exercise but the kind one gets from not having enough exercise or sleep. With a bad mattress or anything else bad going on I would have felt like knives were cutting into me. Espresso is a good … More Un jour de congé
“La representación literaria del incesto se liga íntimamente con la realidad histórica del mestizaje en Cuba. En una sociedad esclavista colonial la estratificación racial aseguraba la sobrevivencia de una minoría a base de categorías raciales exclusivas. En algún momento había que reprimir el concubinato racial para restaurar el patriarcado. La mera existencia de una clase … More Research question du jour
I am still trying to understand the 18th century and do not. This, however, is an interesting article with an interesting author: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Some Problems and Challenges in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics, Kristin Gjesdal, Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 46, 2-2008, 285-306. I now understand why to be on Academia.edu: people put … More Kristin Gjesdal and the cutting edge
He is mysterious because the books he has in WorldCat are not the same as those for sale on Amazon. I have never found as high a discrepancy between these two listings before; the lists hardly overlap and this is making me really wonder about WorldCat. The MLA Bibliography is yet again different. Then I … More Joan Ramón Resina
Writer’s Block, Merit, and the Market: Working in the University of Excellence Author(s): Christina Crosby Reviewed work(s): Source: College English, Vol. 65, No. 6 (Jul., 2003), pp. 626-645 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3594274. Accessed: 26/01/2013 22:26 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & … More More on Christina Crosby
Continuous history is the indispensable correlative of the founding function of the subject: the guarantee that everything has eluded him may be restored him; the certainty that time will disperse nothing without restoring it in a reconstituted unity; the promise that one day the subject — in the form of historical consciousness — will once … More Michel Foucault
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