Nachitoches 2025
05/05/2024
I’ll talk about the work of Jessica Marie Johnson, documentation, print culture per the AAS workshop, and the possibility of archival work here. Axé.
Category: Race book
Belle Créole
30/04/2024
That is a trope, too. Axé.
My BRASA paper
10/04/2024
Years ago I was to write an article on Veloso and I could not finish it, partly because of what my work responsibilities were here and partly because of the emotions I have attached to that music (it was used to advertise Bahia as paradisiacal when I was there and miserable, and it agitates me). … More My BRASA paper
Belle Créole
29/03/2024
That is a trope, too, and it has been discussed/critiqued. Axé.
Notes from a 2010 Conference
11/03/2024
Yes, I am slow. But I’m getting rid of papers and looking at them. That means I am moving ahead. I’m even working on my vita. Axé.
John D. French
09/03/2024
His critique of Bourdieu and Wacquant in Nepantla (2003) is key, although his other article, where he defends Hanchard against their accusation that he has “imposed” a U.S. model on Brazilian scholars, is fierier and more fun. Here Bourdieu and Wacquant have again claimed that intellectual exchange from the U.S. to Brazil “flows in one … More John D. French
Nancy K. Miller’s “Changing the Subject,” Vallejo, and the (il)legibility of Cecilia Valdés
06/03/2024
I have this as a journal article, in an issue I am recycling, but it’s available as part of Miller’s book Subject to Change, which can still be acquired. It’s a 1986 piece, from when I was worried about this question: was the decentering/death of the subject revolutionary if the subject to be killed, fragmented, … More Nancy K. Miller’s “Changing the Subject,” Vallejo, and the (il)legibility of Cecilia Valdés
Cecilia from ancient notes
29/02/2024
The notes are good and I’ve been thinking about all of this far too intermittently for far too long. Some of them I don’t think I will write down because – I know them by heart, really. But Cecilia, the character, is ILLEGIBLE and the novel keeps telling you you have to read her, and … More Cecilia from ancient notes
Continuing with that paper I had sketched out in longhand
25/02/2024
The notes are fragmentary, but the question was, what do these novels mean? I was suggesting these novels present state projects that do not resolve the questions of race and slavery, and are in fact designed not to do so. The Latin American subject is the one who is going to remain in this limbo; … More Continuing with that paper I had sketched out in longhand
A paper on Sommer and da Silva I had sketched out in longhand
25/02/2024
And I won’t reproduce it all here. Point 1 was that Sommer says romance makes nation, but the families in the novels she discusses aren’t stable; they’re unhappy, disintegrating, and so on. Family is not peace and conciliation. Examples: Ma.: ella muere y Efraín se va a la nada; C.V.: los personajes mueren y las … More A paper on Sommer and da Silva I had sketched out in longhand
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