So far this is all I have for the writing group but I am starting with a handicap since I first wrote something else, completely different, and it was almost 6,000 words and it already has a “home.” When before the Congress of Angostura Bolívar proposes to shape nations by mixing the “diverse blood” of … More Et voilà, mesdames et messieurs
Today I have been reading and I must still write for 30 minutes. Things left to read include two recommendations from the Spanish Professor, one from the Prose Doctor, and one or two from me in the same thread. I must also continue to reread the Julio Ramos book. I still have to do final … More Cette semaine
This is interesting on its own but it is mainly created to teach beginning graduate students how to read an article. They have to follow my notes, map them onto the article in question, fill in my gaps, and elaborate in a lucid way. I am using this piece because it is germane to the … More The complete Piedra article
More from Piedra (I love his English, I think it is Cuban and under the influence of Golden Age Spanish, but the marvel of it is, it is ultra-perfect English): To become Hispanic was to acquire “literary whiteness.” The concept of the Hispanic “race” grew in print … but there are Afro-Hispanic writings throughout the … More Rapacious grammar
This might be my favorite article ever. It is classic and should be required reading for everyone. I am going to teach it. Spanish 402/502 — Summer/Fall 2013 Notes on José Piedra, Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference Article NLH 18:2 (1987): 303-332 Accessed from our library via JSTOR Epigraphs: Unamuno, El lenguaje es la … More Piedra on Nebrija
This is to say that inclusivity does not resolve the problem of racial difference but functions to mask or render unspeakable the mechanisms of exclusion and hierarchization which still persist. The elasticity of the category Hispanic does stand in contrast to the less flexible categories that have operated in the United States or South Africa, … More Tres oraciones en treinta minutos
The concept of raza is thus not a merely a particular system of classification, but a racial order in which culture and cultural identity have an important role and the meaning of color varies. It is nonetheless administered by the state as racial, and despite its flexibility as a category, it remains inflected with questions … More Seis oraciones en treinta minutos
Some maritime images… Así es, y los relámpagos cubrirían tus trenzas y la lluvia entraría por tus ojos abiertos a preparar el llanto que sordamente encierras, y las alas negras del mar girarían en torno de ti, con grandes garras, y graznidos, y vuelos. –P.N. Axé.
I need a really good image of a great ship putting out to sea and I do not see the right one, so you will have to imagine it. I am embarking on a large solidarity project. As I am about to call for one in print, I have to model it. It involves wresting … More Le projet
MIND AND MATTER This is Mark Griffith. I had a class from him in translation as an undergraduate and then later, in graduate school, a reading class on Horace. He is a good professor but what makes him unique in my life is that he was the only person, student or professor, who without need … More On academia and cultural exceptionalism
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