Yesterday was my day off. I worked on service related issues, and attended a social meeting for Spanish majors where I got a lot of advising done. At night I went out and saw two new rock bands who were very good. At the meeting with the students and at this barzinho later I had … More Aquí se trabaja mucho
Monday Grade three classes, prepare three Tuesday Car repair, plumber, roofer, call them all Teach three classes, work out Work on the deck Wednesday Finish preparing seminar, then give it Office hours 1-3 Meetings 3-6 Work out, start preparing classes Work on the deck Thursday Prepare and teach three classes, work out Work on the … More Liste, pour la semaine
I cannot tolerate further work on this abstract so, despite my dissatisfaction with it I am sending it in. This is the literary version; the Spanish version will be more sociological. Its title is El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza y estado en tres textos decimonónicos, and I like that better. This was hard to … More C’est tout fini
Those Brazilian scholars and their acolytes, who defend against any hint that racial inequality in Brazil might be an aspect of the racial state by saying that at least they do not classify races by hypo-descent as we truly unfair Americans do, really miss the point. There really are not only differences in ways of … More The darker side of mestizaje
I had assigned the class to do some additional reading on Romanticism, and put each student in charge of introducing a poet and a representative poem. Here are some of the interesting comments and questions they had. ♦ Zorrilla was “financially unwise” and must have had a magnetic personality, to attract all those women looking … More In which my students may be unsophisticated, but do not lack insight
This book is coming out. I have been saying such a book was needed. Is it really the first biography of Vallejo? I would not have said so but it may be the first of its kind. The flyer I got from the publisher today alleged the book could be had for $7.95, so look … More A literary biography of Vallejo
Syntax Is a Second Skin. First manifesto of Infrarealism. Diez poemas y once poetas infrarrealistas. A sociologist discusses Roberto Bolaño. There is a Society for the Proliferation of Visceral Realism but Visceral Realism is a fictional poetic movement. I would prefer to work on poetry today, and do something athletic. Axé.
I still claim Spanish literature after 1700 is, with some exceptions, bland and pedantic compared to what you can read from other countries, but then I do not know it well enough to actually defend this view. Now Words Without Borders has a massive issue on contemporary Spanish literature in translation. They say: Read Fernando … More On current Spanish literature
I had been threatening to use this as a blog title. It would require writing an avant-garde manifesto. Once coldhearted scientist has served its purpose, I may change. I have rejoined the Revista Iberoamericana although this journal is one of the things we do still receive at our library; I have rejoined IAS and I … More Militant Hispanist
The writing group is ill so I am calling people here since this is the check-in day. I am reiterating the prompt from last week, on being a happy writer. It is good and applies to more than theses; like all writing advice it applies to academic work generally and I in particular would do well … More Writing Group, Week 10
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