Denial of difference. This was one of my original insights on the problem I am trying to work out. Creole rhetoric after independence needs black characters to serve as mediators for white ones, works to bring everyone into what Piedra calls “literary whiteness”–you can be black and write, but you have to write race-neutral. And … More Evoke and elide / the denial of difference
NYT Opinion pp. 9, 11 1 September 2018. Pankaj Mishra. The religion of whiteness becomes a suicide cult “White men,” an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson predicted in his 1893 book “National Life and Character: A Forecast,” would be “elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside” by people they had long regarded … More “It is in the motherlands of democracy rather than in fascist Europe that racial hierarchies first defined the modern world”
…not available in Vichy State’s JSTOR. Globality Denise Ferreira da Silva Critical Ethnic Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2015), pp. 33-38 Published by: University of Minnesota Press DOI: 10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0033 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0033 Axé.
El otro elusivo: la teoría racial de Denise Ferreira da Silva Abstracto original This paper will discuss some implications of Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work for the analysis of discourses of mestizaje and exceptionalism in modern Latin American literature, focusing on her concepts of transcendental poesis and the scene of engulfment in Toward a global … More How did I say it then
I have started paying $30/year for this site, to get the ads off it, and I am going to clean it up. I will be one of the last bloggers. I have discovered this poet, Silvia Goldman, who turns out to be the author of this piece I read some time ago and liked, as … More Novedades
The blurb: Rejecting the view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Denise Ferreira da Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Silva proposes that the notion of racial difference governs the global power configuration because … More This book
The rhetorical and narrative move I have been referring to, to myself, as “evoke and elide” all this time, is also, or is parallel to another which is “assimilate and erase.” Axé.
I can look at Piedra for my text. (My favorite article ever is this one.) And if I have trouble writing, I can consider using Scrivener. Axé.
I will start studying Russian at breakfast instead of looking at Facebook, I think. And Filipino food sounds great. There is a good article about race and representation in that region said to be Acadian. Chomsky has an article on the death of universities. On organizing, he says “Don’t be intimidated, don’t be frightened, and … More De bonnes choses
This is interesting. The comments on Anderson are instructive, and the reminder about Foucault on sexuality and race is useful. Yet more interesting is the book it is in, a large compendium on transformation, called both atlas and monument. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 