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The notes are good and I’ve been thinking about all of this far too intermittently for far too long. Some of them I don’t think I will write down because – I know them by heart, really. But Cecilia, the character, is ILLEGIBLE and the novel keeps telling you you have to read her, and … More Cecilia from ancient notes

Mariaca, Rama, Roa Bastos, Weatherford

29/02/2024

Nice photocopies of books, that I’d actually like to have in the library, going because they’re photocopies and they’re dated, although still good, useful, classic: Mariaca, El poder de la palabra (and my photocopy was from the 90s, not this edition, and you can get PDFs of this book, too, from ResearchGate and places like … More Mariaca, Rama, Roa Bastos, Weatherford

José Revueltas

28/02/2024

Here are some books I want. El luto humano. Los días terrenales. These articles do not sell the novels well but I am sure they are very beautiful. Axé.

Unpacking my library, again

27/02/2024

There’s an essay by that title, which I should reread. I found a scrap of paper in the office where I had written: “My problem is that I am a person who does research but everyone tells me that is ‘not you’.” Gosh, people were convinced they knew identities then. There’s a nice e-book now … More Unpacking my library, again

Continuing with that paper I had sketched out in longhand

25/02/2024

The notes are fragmentary, but the question was, what do these novels mean? I was suggesting these novels present state projects that do not resolve the questions of race and slavery, and are in fact designed not to do so. The Latin American subject is the one who is going to remain in this limbo; … More Continuing with that paper I had sketched out in longhand

An excursus on Reeducation

25/02/2024

I used o have difficulty working because it made me think about Reeducation. So at this point there was an excursus in my notes, boiling Reeducation down. It said: The fourth point, on limiting intellectual power, is the one that stands out now. What was so painful about it all was the imperative to suppress … More An excursus on Reeducation

A paper on Sommer and da Silva I had sketched out in longhand

25/02/2024

And I won’t reproduce it all here. Point 1 was that Sommer says romance makes nation, but the families in the novels she discusses aren’t stable; they’re unhappy, disintegrating, and so on. Family is not peace and conciliation. Examples: Ma.: ella muere y Efraín se va a la nada; C.V.: los personajes mueren y las … More A paper on Sommer and da Silva I had sketched out in longhand

Race and the modern state

25/02/2024

These are notes from very long ago, a LARR issue on race, referring in part to Anthony Marx, “Making race and nation: a comparison of the U.S., S.A., and Brazil.” The modern state played a formative role in the development of racialized societies. It excluded Blacks to gain legitimacy among whites and is a racialized … More Race and the modern state

Anti-slavery and anti-slave

24/02/2024

Here’s Jerome Branche in the Afro-Hispanic Review, 1998. That’s another photocopy I don’t need to keep. But I had great notes and underlining in it. Branche is in part criticizing William Luis’ construction of Sab as an abolitionist text. Del Monte (with whom Gómez de Avallaneda was not affiliated, but with whom Luis associates her), … More Anti-slavery and anti-slave