All three novels are key works in their national canons, and are set largely on slave plantations. Like several other narratives from the Latin American nineteenth century, their plots feature romances that fail due to a varying combinations of incest and miscegenation. In Cecilia Valdés most clearly, the patriarch Cándido Gamboa is the literal father … More 226
I have won awards for beautiful offices and office doors at two universities. That is not me in the doorway, but it is my office. Axé.
“…you’ve got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.” This is the one phrase I like from On the Road and it is anti-Boycean, and it rejects the values of Reeducation. Axé.
I have far too much to do but I think I can write the Cecilia section of this paper using the CFP to which I responded with a related piece, or rewrite that abstract en ese sentido (if I write the Cecilia section about vision). I will again work on the door and the yard. … More Constant activity and I want a vacation
We are no longer a university, we are a corporation. Evidence is in every detail: the bus no longer takes standing passengers; it is now forbidden to write in chalk on the sidewalk. The university will close in 15-20 years, based on the current rate of non-replacement of FTEs. Before the advent of e-mail, how … More Things students said, and asked today. Things I thought.
In the last NEH seminar I attended there was a Brazilian scholar who gave a talk about the African cultural origins of “our Negroes,” as she said. White Brazilian scholars and European scholars of Brazil are very concerned about the negative influence Black persons and movements from the United States and, to some extent, the … More Sobre la expresión “nuestros negros”
Foods I have eaten since arriving in New Orleans are: – seafood gumbo – shrimp remoulade – trout with crabmeat Foods remaining to be eaten are: – sausage and rabbit jambalaya – seafood omelette po-boy – shrimp grillade If you are perceptive, you will see the Spanishness of all this. Axé.
Hattie says the problem with academic advice is the either/or thinking. This is a very good analysis. Just because I am delivering the final blows to my enemy, academic anti-advice, don’t think I am not on vacation — I am. Now, I am on the back patio of this precise building. Can you place it? … More En ville
I really will have to write my manual since I have so much to say. The question on advice is, what are the motives of the advisor? 1/ Sharing, and money. They are willing to sell expertise. Fair enough. 2/ Things people wish they had known: they wish to share experience and views. Of interest. … More Categories of academic advice
The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as are their proclamations that the mestizo is superior rather than degraded. The mestizo nation of … More Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words
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