Giannina Braschi
27/07/2012
Axé.
Category: Bibliography
The Tin Roof Blowdown
07/07/2012
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
Lentitude
25/06/2012
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
The Libertine Colony
25/06/2012
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
Very Early Mexico
21/06/2012
It will be St. John’s Eve this weekend, so it is fitting to discuss bonfires. Here is a description of a book I would really like to read. After an introduction which explains the significance of bonfires and lays out the sources for the book, the narrative begins in Iberia with a brief history of … More Very Early Mexico
Shenaz Patel
21/06/2012
Le gardien du port connaît bien Charlesia. Elle passe régulièrement devant sa guérite et se dirige vers le quai. Elle scrute l’horizon, dans l’attente vaine d’un bateau qui la ramènera dans son île natale. Diego Garcia n’est plus qu’un souvenir, la nostalgie douloureuse d’une vie simple rythmée par la production de Coprah, les jeux des … More Shenaz Patel
Zuzana Pick
05/06/2012
This is the book I forgot to bring. Perhaps I can find it here. Axé.
Noticias del Imperio
17/05/2012
I hope this exposition is still on when I get to México, D.F. The Museo del Estanquillo is one I have never been to, in any case; I have also never been to the Casa de Francia and its reading room. There are now many expositions from the private collection of Carlos Monsiváis, who died … More Noticias del Imperio
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
08/05/2012
We have had the Devil to pay lately, here in Maringouin. We have lost some people and a program. The above song sings to the 1964-84 Brazilian dictatorship that in spite of it, tomorrow is another day. And in life generally, we had so much advice on how to get things done. I, however, have … More The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Camilo Castelo Branco
07/05/2012
This is just from Wikipedia, but consider the amazing and yet typically 19th century writer´s life. Camilo was born out of wedlock and orphaned in infancy, although his origins lay ultimately in Northern Portugal’s provincial aristocracy (his father, Manuel Joaquim Botelho Castelo Branco, was the son of an illustrious household in the environs of Vila … More Camilo Castelo Branco
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