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.
I want/need this book but of course I cannot afford it. Well I mean, I could buy it, I spent $100 on clothes and I could have bought this instead. But $110 for a book is a lot. It is $40 to have it electronically, without page numbers. I will ILL it although I really … More Poetics of Race
That’s a now old and famous book, but I have some old notes of mine on a page of an old review whose author I don’t know. So we will write them here before I recycle this piece of paper, to stimulate thought. My notes were that this is then the beginning of that literature-nation-state … More Literature and the state: Julio Ramos, Desencuentros de la modernidad
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