Here are some things to think about. 1. Mireille’s article on appropriations of Aimé Césaire. I read it and thought of Vallejo appropriations, and I did not yet know about Jonathan’s book on Lorca appropriations. Now I find Mireille’s prose irritatingly unclear but I want to bring the piece up again since it is about … More Research never ends
It is the condescending tone, the supposition that one has no experience writing, and the assumption that one does not like to write; most of all it is the insistence that all you need is discipline. Nicole and Maggie claim that if you do not need the basic advice Boice gives, you should be able … More More on my allergy to Robert Boice and the Boiceans
Today I had a leisurely breakfast with my guest and took her to the station, after which I did some errands. I came home and started laundry, looked at e-mail and did some financial things, and then it was noon. I had lunch and sat down to write, taking short breaks to wrap packages, make … More Le lundi
Ahora bien. Tomorrow I will start writing it in English and it will, as we have said, begin with Bolívar and then go on to Doris Sommer. Next it will talk about Goldberg and da Silva (and mention Sanjinés and Lund). The point is that mestizaje and the nation are old topics but race, modernity … More Race and the state…
♦ There is little distance between exogamy and incest since Don Cándido is everyone’s father (as it were). ♦ There is no compatibility between the hierarchical, slaveowning society and the bourgeois, modern one. The secrets that must be kept from the bourgeois society cause problems: it cannot be said that Cecilia is Leonardo’s sister, so their romance … More Cecilia Valdés, again
I do not like to lose things, especially not things in which I have invested a piece of my identity, but I do it. This year so far I have lost two rings, a cell phone, and now a Mycra Pac raincoat, which is the worst loss. It was this cool nickel color and was … More Mycra Pac
The most memorable sentence in his (also favorable review) is about Latin America, of which he asks: “Where else, after all, has interracial sex been a more important source of national identities?” This 1992 review is in HAHR. As you can see, even while working a festival and spending the entire morning taking tourists around … More J. C. Chasteen on Sommer
I am working a festival this weekend so I leave you with this. Vous-autres, bourgeois de la vie maigre: lisez votre Robert Boice et portez-vous bien; some of us have duende. Axé.
Aujourd’hui je trouverai: “Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Skinner, Lee. Hispanofila Volume: 132 (2001-05-01) p. 25-42. ISSN: 0018-2206. The IILI is having its conference in México, D.F. in June, 2014 which is ideal for me. That means I need another abstract. This is the place to fire my salvo beyond … More Al azar
I will be part of this person’s gig and it will be happening by the time this post goes up. Eh toi, nous nous voyons en ville. Axé.
