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
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
These are notes from very long ago, a LARR issue on race, referring in part to Anthony Marx, “Making race and nation: a comparison of the U.S., S.A., and Brazil.” The modern state played a formative role in the development of racialized societies. It excluded Blacks to gain legitimacy among whites and is a racialized … More Race and the modern state
Here’s Jerome Branche in the Afro-Hispanic Review, 1998. That’s another photocopy I don’t need to keep. But I had great notes and underlining in it. Branche is in part criticizing William Luis’ construction of Sab as an abolitionist text. Del Monte (with whom Gómez de Avallaneda was not affiliated, but with whom Luis associates her), … More Anti-slavery and anti-slave
PRÉFACE DE JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Le Sudiste seul a compétence pour parler de l’esclavage: c’est qu’il connaît le Nègre; les gens du Nord, puritains abstraits, ne connaissent que l’Homme, qui est une entité. Ce beau raisonnement sert encore: à Houston, dans la presse de la Nouvelle-Orléans et puis, comme on est toujours le Nordiste de quelqu’un, … More Sartre sur Memmi
That was the title of a review essay on Postethnic America and other books (W. B. Michaels’ Our America is one) by Eric Lott, almost 28 years ago when all these things were new. I kept my photocopy because I liked my underlinings and notes, and a lot of things, like the Amiri Baraka epigraph. … More The New Cosmopolitanism
Important things today: I had some progress on the MLA panel, and then started working on an abstract for the MLA that is based on what I need to figure out for C19. In both cases, I seemed to crack something. I also got the flights for California ready, and the hotels. I was too … More Mestizo Self-Fashioning
This is one of the ancient photocopies I have, that I would not hang onto if I were at a university with library holdings. Magnarelli’s The Lost Rib is a good book, although dated now. And I am too lazy to summarize the preface and explain the premise, and there are reviews you can look … More Magnarelli on MARIA
Here is the text (from my library, it won’t work for you) as published in the Minnesota Review in 1975. I’ve downloaded it. I’ve been carrying around a paper copy of it as a NYU working paper for 48 years. It’s still fresh. There is a lot in it and I carried it around because … More Dependency theory and literary history: the case of Latin America
I am recycling my paper copy because I have this issue (like all others) available online. I must remember its existence, though. Axé.
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