Voracious America

05/05/2024

In La expresión americana Lezama apparently describes America as a cannibal or voracious stomach, eating cultures and giving them a new shape, and then in a slightly different key, we’ve got La vorágine, the jungle that devours. So this cannibal motif is everywhere, not just in Oswald. I have to think more about this. Axé.

Imago y paisaje

02/05/2024

Aquí. This article is very pretty, with lovely and suggestive prose. Paisaje is naturaleza convertida en cultura por un sujeto; it is an imago, or an idealized image. According to Lezama it is paisaje that creates culture. And it is in the discovery of countryside that la expresión americana begins, and it is the imago … More Imago y paisaje

Killing Spanish

29/04/2024

This book has been on my list for over ten years for reasons I had forgotten, but finally I ordered it because I see: it is about family novels and how the split between Americanized protagonists and their families is usually resolved through the killing of a character representing origins. I can use this for … More Killing Spanish

Before Reeducation

18/04/2024

I sought psychotherapy back then because of the abusive relationship I had been trained to be in with my mother; I wanted to learn how to get out of it. I saw this statement today, and I am meditating on it: “Trauma is not the thing that HAPPENED to you, trauma is your continued emotional … More Before Reeducation