The most memorable sentence in his (also favorable review) is about Latin America, of which he asks: “Where else, after all, has interracial sex been a more important source of national identities?” This 1992 review is in HAHR. As you can see, even while working a festival and spending the entire morning taking tourists around … More J. C. Chasteen on Sommer
Aujourd’hui je trouverai: “Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Skinner, Lee. Hispanofila Volume: 132 (2001-05-01) p. 25-42. ISSN: 0018-2206. The IILI is having its conference in México, D.F. in June, 2014 which is ideal for me. That means I need another abstract. This is the place to fire my salvo beyond … More Al azar
What Danny said about Doris’ book: In terms of its announced project, Doris Sommer’s Foundational Fictions turns to the canonical novels of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. Through a synthesis of writings about sexuality, nationalism, family history, and allegory, Sommer develops a theory of a nineteenth-century “erotic code” in order to explain … More So twentieth century
I am looking for negative reviews of Doris Sommer, Foundational Fictions. If I do not find more by using Web of Knowledge and the MLA Bibliography I will call a reference librarian. I have already found an interesting one by Nancy Vogeley, in Modern Philology 91:3 (February 1994): 390-394. Danny Anderson has a review essay … More Research Wednesday
For purposes of “touching work” today I am reproducing the kernel of my proto-book proposal. These ideas are to orient the article and proto-chapter I am about to write, “The darker side of mestizaje.” (Yes, I am playing on Mignolo’s classic book title and on the idea of the dark side of the Enlightenment which … More Vision, race, and the state in modern Latin American literature
I have given this post the title of my book, so as to keep it in view. In the interest of “at least touching work every day” I have reproduced the abstract that has gotten into a conference in the fall, on which I am to start working. It is packed with ideas and structured … More That Discerning Eye: Vision, Race, and the State …
So I have fixed that abstract yet more, and submitted it, so that is that. In 15 weeks of the writing group I achieved: 1 grant proposal and shadow book prospectus, 1000 words 3 abstracts, 500 words each Total: 2500 words Visible: 1 abstract accepted to 1 conference, 1 probably accepted to working papers series … More Saldo: a writing group post
Someone said in print that the atmosphere of hiddenness in María fairly begs the reader to analyze it. I note that the only white women in this novel are Efraín’s blood relatives — to the extent that they are white. To what extent does this matter or not, or rather how does it matter, given … More Eminently interpretable
This was supposed to be an abstract for a conference, but it might be turning into the article already. I may have hit upon a good writing strategy: say I am writing an abstract for a longer piece. This is better than outlining or storyboarding, which I never really liked. I usually write from an agenda … More The darker side of mestizaje: a writing group post
…more of my bad style. I do not get to move a millimeter from here this summer, which is why I must place myself on virtual immersion. Read a lot in Spanish and Portuguese and also listen to people whose style I like, talking. Los proyectos de identidad mestizos no son exclusivamente latinoamericanos. Desde el … More Writing du jour
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