Those Brazilian scholars and their acolytes, who defend against any hint that racial inequality in Brazil might be an aspect of the racial state by saying that at least they do not classify races by hypo-descent as we truly unfair Americans do, really miss the point. There really are not only differences in ways of … More The darker side of mestizaje
Escuta o gazal que fiz, Darling, em louvor de Hafiz. –Manoel Bandeira To historians my perception about race and the state is not a new, tentative intuition but an established fact. Literary people do not see their own liberal prejudice (now that we are in enlightened democracies, vestiges of older orders can be cleared out … More …darling, em louvor dos historiadores
I had assigned the class to do some additional reading on Romanticism, and put each student in charge of introducing a poet and a representative poem. Here are some of the interesting comments and questions they had. ♦ Zorrilla was “financially unwise” and must have had a magnetic personality, to attract all those women looking … More In which my students may be unsophisticated, but do not lack insight
I did not know about this. Franco apparently had a mestizo theory of Spanish identity that was important to his conception of the nation. (Joshua Goode’s book is really good.) Axé.
This book is coming out. I have been saying such a book was needed. Is it really the first biography of Vallejo? I would not have said so but it may be the first of its kind. The flyer I got from the publisher today alleged the book could be had for $7.95, so look … More A literary biography of Vallejo
Another unfinished paper I have is on Tropicalismo. I am reminded of it by this post. I do not know that it fits into what I am doing now but I should finish it. The text is quite interesting; it got out of my control and Tropicalismo began to look like the boom novel; that … More Tropicália
The place to be this evening, I feel, is the Plaza Real in Barcelona but on Facebook, I have alleged I am at Elizabeth’s Restaurant on Gallier Street, en ville. A chat window opened and it was my Louisiana friend in San Francisco, informing me that it takes work to have “talent.” He is taking … More In which I pretend I am at a café after work, perhaps on the Plaza Real, with people walking by
Martineau, apud Aslakson, emphasis added: What security for domestic purity and peace can be where every man has had two connections, one of which must be concealed; and two families whose existence must not be known to each other; where the conjugal relations begin in treachery, and must be carried on with a heavy secret … More Half revealed, half concealed
I had been threatening to use this as a blog title. It would require writing an avant-garde manifesto. Once coldhearted scientist has served its purpose, I may change. I have rejoined the Revista Iberoamericana although this journal is one of the things we do still receive at our library; I have rejoined IAS and I … More Militant Hispanist
This book exists at LSU, Tulane, and the Louisiana State Library. I must acquire and read it as it apparently describes the experience of this Louisiana historian and his Creole concubine. I found out about it on the plaçage wiki which, interestingly, locates plaçage in Saint-Domingue and in various other places, but not in Havana. … More Fernando de Lemos. Truth and fiction. A novel. Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895. New York, G. W. Carleton, 1872.
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