The collection of essays Tradition and renewal, on 20th century literature, is 49 years old and I am donating it, even though there are good things in it (it is available on archive.org). I feel that scholarship really has improved since then. I am again so sad that I couldn’t connect to it for so … More Vanguardias and Peter Dews
I have this as a journal article, in an issue I am recycling, but it’s available as part of Miller’s book Subject to Change, which can still be acquired. It’s a 1986 piece, from when I was worried about this question: was the decentering/death of the subject revolutionary if the subject to be killed, fragmented, … More Nancy K. Miller’s “Changing the Subject,” Vallejo, and the (il)legibility of Cecilia Valdés
I had a photocopy of this facsimile copy of Colónida but as you see, it is now available online. I also had a photocopy of this Brazilian collection of essays on the avant-garde by smart and prominent people, but it is old now and can be seen at Tulane. There is also Transition 78, a … More Revista Colónida e mais vanguardas
Njoy Indian Cuisine. We will see — I haven’t been to a good Indian restaurant in this town although other people like the ones we have. I say you have to go to Baton Rouge or the West Bank for real Indian food. Five Mile Eatery. Maybe. But everything sounds so sweet and fatty. A … More Restaurants I have not been to and should go to
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
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
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.
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
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
coldhearted scientist وداد 