I have given this post the title of my book, so as to keep it in view. In the interest of “at least touching work every day” I have reproduced the abstract that has gotten into a conference in the fall, on which I am to start working. It is packed with ideas and structured … More That Discerning Eye: Vision, Race, and the State …
A madrigal from 1594: April is in my mistress’ face, / And July in her eyes hath place. . . . This is a very good ensemble, and you should listen to the recording. Axé.
Here is a May song, well sung. Listen to what appear to be period accents. La casa de Bernarda Alba is a May play. Rowdy youth spends the night and part of the day out gathering flowers, and Adela wears a green dress. Maypoles are remnants of ancient tree-worship. What else do we know about … More Clément Janequin
There is a new, 13th century Andalusi manuscript. The tales, set in India, are to be told on street corners, and in coffeehouses and orange groves. “It is certainly not by chance that this backdrop has something Oriental about it when seen from an Arabic perspective. It is an image of an Orient that is far … More Andalusian Orientalism
So I have fixed that abstract yet more, and submitted it, so that is that. In 15 weeks of the writing group I achieved: 1 grant proposal and shadow book prospectus, 1000 words 3 abstracts, 500 words each Total: 2500 words Visible: 1 abstract accepted to 1 conference, 1 probably accepted to working papers series … More Saldo: a writing group post
This abstract has 567 words and in 11 point fits the page almost exactly. I am tired of it because it is due in ten days — ten days in which I must accomplish much else — and because time spent fiddling with it is time not spent on the article. I am thinking of … More El abstracto interminable
Someone said in print that the atmosphere of hiddenness in María fairly begs the reader to analyze it. I note that the only white women in this novel are Efraín’s blood relatives — to the extent that they are white. To what extent does this matter or not, or rather how does it matter, given … More Eminently interpretable
I had a conversation with a dean — a dean! of a unit in another school at the university who said the entire place is a hostile working environment. It is a good time to be studying the rhetoric of the Maréchal because we are Vichy State. Axé.
This is another deliberately provocative post. From a flyer just received: This will allow for the sharing of results stemming from this experience, and to discuss a possible adaptation to this model to Louisiana’s reality in the context of an inclusive and united Francophonie, and the necessity to invent new forms of cooperation. [emphasis added] … More On Louisiana exceptionalism and united Francophonie
I think I might be breaking up with Marc Bousquet. He is right about how the university works. The Los Angeles Times even quoted me making many of the same points, thirty years ago when we were founding what is now this union. But at the current crossroads it may be that adjuncts are not … More Further heresy
