More academic, more leftist, more actually political
31/01/2020
…and we will try… Axé.
Category: Borderlands
Borderlands
15/01/2020
The thing about Anzaldúa’s book is that it is not just about any borderlands, it is about a specific region. Yes, I know she extrapolates a great deal from there, but it is STILL into largely US based theory (gone global). But it is from a region and the writing voice does have an identity, … More Borderlands
La bibliothèque
12/01/2020
I have to get the things I said I would, and López Velarde, and the Anzaldúa book I don’t have, and that’s there. I ordered the other one, and might donate it to the library. I’ll see about the Thomas Ward article (Gloria Anzaldúa y la lucha fronteriza). I’m keeping in mind this manifesto on … More La bibliothèque
For Anzaldúa and JALLA
20/12/2019
For ages I kept around this essay by Linda Gordon, from Dissent (Spring 1999, 41-47), called “The trouble with difference.” As she notes, it follows on a piece of hers in Genders (1991) on related issues. She says gender difference called up hopes of community among women, sisterhood; differences among women (typically racial) reinforce bonds … More For Anzaldúa and JALLA
Books and things on nations and borders
08/12/2019
There is The Borders of Dominicanism, useful to me in that it invokes another borderland with the U.S. There is At the edges of states: Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands (Michael Eilenberg) The book rests on the premise that remote border regions offer an exciting study arena that can tell us important … More Books and things on nations and borders
Compulsory heterosexuality and alternative anthropophagy
28/11/2019
I thought I was just puttering around, rereading Adrienne Rich because someone sent me that essay, and reading about Oswaldo Costa because this article popped up, but actually: they are for my paper. Anzaldúa is a lesbian writer and following Rich, that is more important than her just being a defender of all supposedly “marginal” … More Compulsory heterosexuality and alternative anthropophagy
World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality
13/11/2019
This book is open access and I am in love with that. And I’ve got a co-translator now for that project, a powerful one, and a press says they’ll take the book. We have not yet seen the contract, but I suppose we will get one. I got really mad at the university and envious … More World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality
Transnational
27/10/2019
In the office, I will find the notes on the transnational illumination I had the other day. In the meantime, here we have Vilashini Cooppan in a very old (2000) article on the transnational study of race and nation, in this book. I had kept it, should I still? is the question. It is part … More Transnational
Ancient
31/07/2019
Ancient notes, I think from a conference 20 years ago, that I kept and kept. What did they say and why did I keep them? Postmodernism as grand récit flattens out the complexities of Latin American modernism, which had postmodern characteristics and also more, it was more complex. It tries to articulate national and continental … More Ancient
BRASA/LASA
30/07/2019
The BRASA deadline is extended to September 1, Gott sei Dank, and I have to double-check the situation with LASA. I’d like to go to both just to see papers, and maybe I should even if I don’t get in or don’t make the submission deadlines. In the meantime, here are some of my old … More BRASA/LASA
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