On Savage Shores

We have to get this book. I discovered it by procrastinating while trying to think about Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and it does have directly to do with Cortés, even though I did not find it through a search on him but while avoiding doing one. It’s synchronicity, serendipitous. I discovered it via this article. … More On Savage Shores

Dependency theory and literary history: the case of Latin America

Here is the text (from my library, it won’t work for you) as published in the Minnesota Review in 1975. I’ve downloaded it. I’ve been carrying around a paper copy of it as a NYU working paper for 48 years. It’s still fresh. There is a lot in it and I carried it around because … More Dependency theory and literary history: the case of Latin America

Poetics of Race

I want/need this book but of course I cannot afford it. Well I mean, I could buy it, I spent $100 on clothes and I could have bought this instead. But $110 for a book is a lot. It is $40 to have it electronically, without page numbers. I will ILL it although I really … More Poetics of Race