All I really want to do now is study Sarmiento. I had read Cien años de soledad in English when it came out, before I was literate in Spanish, but Facundo was the first Latin American book I read in Spanish and there is no better one, as it is completely wild. There is so … More Another trick for a successful year
Here is Alan Liu’s course in which I am interested more for the platform and organization of materials than for its course content. That is interesting as well, but then so are all courses. I like the plaform. I have a course on Piazza, which I like better than Moodle, but I like this (even) better. It … More Course platforms
She has a smart book on civilization and barbarism that I found out about from the Spanish Professor and am now using to teach Facundo. Here is a snippet from my simplifying notes for class: Con la Revolución Francesa se introduce la idea de que la barbarie se halla también en el interior del continente … More Maristella Svampa
This was from the Guadalajara LASA, in 1997. I am wondering now whether cultural exceptionalism is a “criollo symptom” — of the attempt to grapple with the fact of being in what Mignolo (and others) call “coloniality” when their imperative is to join the modernity (again Mignolo) from which they are barred by definition. This … More Síntomas criollos
“I will not speak to him/her or be on a committee with him/her because he/she once disagreed with disobeyed me!” Is this a Peninsular thing, or just a franquista thing, or what? Axé.
In 1876, Dom Pedro II, the Emperor of Brazil, visited San Francisco and asked to meet the Emperor of the United States. They met at a royal suite at the newly opened Palace Hotel and talked for more than an hour. Dom Pedro never let on whether he realized that the United States really didn’t … More Emperor Norton
Facebook refused to post this: Bien, tenés razón Natalia, lo interesante sería ver literatura del mundo hispanoárabe actual. Yo en lo que pensaba para mi actual clasecita era alguna jarcha con fotos de Córdoba, algo así, y asustarlos con la noticia de que no es del todo cristiana la madre patria. Pero veo algo más … More Rebrillante
Now I see the origin of my dream: I was Chatting with a friend from long ago, and we were looking at pictures on Facebook of our mutual friends from then, and talking about how old everyone was now. I dreamed of myself. I was not like myself at all: I was an older lady, … More Dream
Look at the microphone: this is from KCRW. That is a radio station in the promised land. Agua de rosas she says, but it is citrus I remember. Axé.
“The ‘idea’ of America and of ‘Latin’ America emerged and has been maintained in the field of forces in which knowledge and wealth are unevenly distributed, and where the colonial difference has been silenced by the trumpeting and celebration of cultural differences.” –Mignolo 2005, 44. I know you are writing on this today, SMT. Axé.
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