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 rigidity of it. One must make do with what it offered, and other questions would not be acknowledged. The idea that one was less-than. You … 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
Sartre sur Memmi
22/02/2024
PRÉFACE DE JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Le Sudiste seul a compétence pour parler de l’esclavage: c’est qu’il connaît le Nègre; les gens du Nord, puritains abstraits, ne connaissent que l’Homme, qui est une entité. Ce beau raisonnement sert encore: à Houston, dans la presse de la Nouvelle-Orléans et puis, comme on est toujours le Nordiste de quelqu’un, … More Sartre sur Memmi
The New Cosmopolitanism
22/02/2024
That was the title of a review essay on Postethnic America and other books (W. B. Michaels’ Our America is one) by Eric Lott, almost 28 years ago when all these things were new. I kept my photocopy because I liked my underlinings and notes, and a lot of things, like the Amiri Baraka epigraph. … More The New Cosmopolitanism
Log 18-23 February
19/02/2024
Sunday: located the abstract I wrote and didn’t use, to revamp for the MLA. My goal this week is to work on this abstract so now I have done one thing toward that. Also this week I must do more toward that speaker, and work on syllabi and exams. Re syllabi, one is the Bolaño … More Log 18-23 February
