The restless dead
25/08/2021
This book is actually about subject theory and it will, I hope, help me figure out what I think about Vallejo and magical realism. Or not–but I will know. Axé.
Category: Race book
The Latin American State
16/08/2021
Jean Franco has a 1989 article in a volume on the new historicism edited by one H. Aram Veeser, on the nation as imagined community. In it she discusses the impossibility of construction of the modern Latin American state. I must read it. Axé.
Things I will do
23/07/2021
I must also, before I fly, in addition to FU prize promotion: * do a manuscript review for RI* order books on my grant* talk to: Emily, Tom, and Amálio on the three other projects. I will do these things while also working on the magic realism and doing more university e-mail, and I will … More Things I will do
Edward Saïd
26/04/2021
Places of Mind is the new biography of Saïd I would like to read. Axé.
Revista hispánica moderna
19/04/2021
The current issue is on Hispanism. On another topic, I am looking for a 1951/52 article in it by Monguió, on the “crematística” of the 19th century novel. On poetry, there’s Malva Flores, “el ocaso de los poetas intelectuales,” on strategies of legitimation of poetry. Axé.
What I am interested in
14/04/2021
I am interested in seeing how racism operates in these representations. I do not think this has really been done. Speaker: “The [white gallery] spaces are really violent [against Blackness].” This explains a lot: the space of my department is really violent against Spanish. Axé.
Black Conquistadors and Maroons
14/04/2021
Read all about them. Axé.
Absorb heterogeneity, depoliticize difference
07/04/2021
That’s what they are up to, those authors. Meanwhile: Hispanism is an imperial project but Latin American writing is multi-voiced from the beginning; the Inca Garcilaso, for instance, insists upon himself as a Quechua narrator, for instance, and Mazzotti (1995 in Revista Iberoamericana and elsewhere) insists on the aural qualities of this text as well. … More Absorb heterogeneity, depoliticize difference
Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
06/04/2021
It is because of the subtitle that I should actually read this book. I used to read at it and not pay enough attention because it seemed to Anglocentric and foreign. However. Axé.
What is happening in those books?
04/04/2021
I wrote: “If the carceral is not a detour or an aberration to be righted by reform but an essential feature of the modern world, recomposing itself when the ground shifts, what is to be done?” Race as topic keeps arising in these books, too. And then getting “elided,” as I keep saying. Race keeps … More What is happening in those books?
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