Saint-Louis, Senegal/New Orleans Conference New Orleans, Louisiana April 22-25, 2013 will be the site of the second part of an international conference, “Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans: The Comparative and Linked History of Two Port Cities on Each Side of the Atlantic from the 17th to the 19th Centuries,” cosponsored by Tulane, the Ecole des … More African New Orleans
Really, I am a frivolous thing interested only in clothes and songs. So far, I am to be the stage presenter for the following bands: Oliver Mtukudzi & the Black Spirits Bodh’aktan Nimbaya Women Drummers of Guinea Sergent García Mika Karni & Kol Dodi Fatoumata Diawara Shoes I want: the Dansko Harlow, they look much … More Encore des activités
Cubans are the best pianists. What I most like in Havana is how, as you walk through quiet residential neighborhoods, you hear people practicing the piano and they are good, in bungalows behind low fences and banana trees. Listening to this, though, I heard a cake walk and realized I had not thought of it … More Bebo Valdés
Another unfinished paper I have is on Tropicalismo. I am reminded of it by this post. I do not know that it fits into what I am doing now but I should finish it. The text is quite interesting; it got out of my control and Tropicalismo began to look like the boom novel; that … More Tropicália
Introductory matter or contorno: Cirilo Villaverde, the U.S. Latino writer, or at least his novel Cecilia Valdés as American novel where “America” includes but is not limited to the United States (following Rodrigo Lazo‘s lead on this). Central discussion: the image of plaçage in American literature including Cecilia Valdés. Kenneth Aslakson has already done significant … More Tropical towns, Creole looks, and articles I do not have time to write
Here is some poetry of an actual Fascist, very circumspect. Then there is noucentisme, Eugeni d’Ors’ movement, which is really quite strange, and there had been regenerationism as well. I have just read a fairly current Spanish novel I believe to be about memory but think is about evasion. It has touches of Vargas Llosa, Borges and … More Conservative modernism, and conservative modernity
Esta es una verdadera curiosidad. Axé.
Axé.
This article is turning into a discussion of several theorists, mostly not in literature, who say race is constitutive of modernity. If race is constitutive of modernity, there are definite limits to the liberal critique of racism, and hierarchies based on race may be made invisible but will not go away. If Latin America is … More That discerning eye
This is the sign of progress: I am reading and enjoying the Goldberg book. As I have said before: people keep insisting reading is a way to avoid writing; you cannot, however, write without it. It is a sign of progress because in my worst period I could not read. I would think: this resembles … More Cuba y la noche
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