The atmosphere in Jorge Isaacs’ novel María is truly right wing. We know he was a conservative, and that the novel is set on a plantation, but I had not read it since spending some time every week for several years chatting with some well-heeled conservative Christians and beginning to understand the gestalt of their … More María
Emmanuel Eze’s book Race and the Enlightenment is actually a reader, an anthology of Enlightenment writings on race. Our current interlibrary loan system feels so complex that it I am tempted to order the book from a store or drive to where it lives. Axé.
For an introduction to the study of culture and the analysis of cultural objects that is effectively a late sophomore level course I was going to do something much more amazing, but I have in fact ordered El espejo enterrado (in Spanish, of course). Now, because of its perspective, I am thinking of adding to this … More On books for the culture course
There are people, things and books I only get to know about because I read of them in the news. (I cannot afford to go to national conferences now, for example. When the university stopped funding these a few years ago I filled up a credit card for a while. Now I am paying on … More Oblivion: A Memoir
The first part of this title was meant to be “On blood,” in French, but I see that it also means “You (fam.) sang” in Danish. I wonder what else it means. In any case, we are rereading Denis de Rougement, L’Amour et l’Occident, for fun; our profit on it is, we are daily more … More Du sang, or, Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Denis de Rougemont
This is a book, and an author I would like to read. Axé.
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In Mexico, they have the Japanese embassy and you can get real Japanese food nearby. That means, economical food actual people from Japan eat on an everyday basis. I was able to feed my dormant, and benign addiction to various kinds of donburi, an addiction I sometimes try and fail to satisfy with the teriyaki … More The Tin Roof Blowdown
Glissant’s book also has much more in it on the psychology of domination than I had realized, and is in general much more thoroughgoing and serious than it had ever seemed to me the various times I had tried to work with it in a rushed way (the academic way). I am reading slowly which … More Lentitude
I must get hold of, and read, this 2005 book by Doris Garraway. I have been rereading Glissant’s discours antillais and finally understand it, or understand it as it was meant, perhaps. It is a better book than I thought; I always liked Glissant and now I like this book, too. I have it with me … More The Libertine Colony
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