Cecilia Valdés in New Orleans This paper considers some New Orleans sources, parallels and intertexts of Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés o la loma del Ángel: novela de costumbres cubanas (Havana, 1839-New York, 1882) and the fact that Cuba’s national novel was written over thirty years’ residence in the United States. Like José Martí, Benito Juárez, … More An unplanned child
Lomax’s description occurs in his documentary, Cajun Country, where his specific goal is to discuss the concept of “Cajun” not as a group of people so much as a cultural dynamic capable of absorbing and reworking a variety of influences, albeit most of them deriving from traditional folkways found in southern France. That goal is … More Alan Lomax, vendor of mestizaje…
Here is a discussion of him. It is interesting and he may not have been entirely wrong about the nature of Louisiana. Axé.
If race is constitutive of the modern state, as Goldberg demonstrates (2002), or of modernity itself, as da Silva argues (2007), the liberal assumption that inequality can be addressed within the framework of the nation does not hold. How might this perception change our understanding of these and other texts that have been read as … More My egalitarian bias keeps me from seeing this.
→I do not like my paper title and it wants to be in Spanish, anyway. I could do another paper, too, on Latinness and the idea of the Hispanic; somehow this could fit into my book; I actually gave a paper like that years ago and did not get back to it; it is one … More El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza, estado, latinidad
1) What do you think of going to a conference that would put you out of class for an entire week? The conference is W-F and I would have to travel on the Tuesday, which means missing four weekdays. On the one hand, it is research. On the other, that is a week of class. … More Planning
I cannot tolerate further work on this abstract so, despite my dissatisfaction with it I am sending it in. This is the literary version; the Spanish version will be more sociological. Its title is El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza y estado en tres textos decimonónicos, and I like that better. This was hard to … More C’est tout fini
Actually it is a downright Gadamerian problem. A second look at this 19th century corpus may not support the romanticized readings it elicited after mestizaje was embraced as national ideology decades after its first publication. It is Gadamerian because the problem is what the readers bring; their assumptions, predilections, blind spots. Axé.
Those Brazilian scholars and their acolytes, who defend against any hint that racial inequality in Brazil might be an aspect of the racial state by saying that at least they do not classify races by hypo-descent as we truly unfair Americans do, really miss the point. There really are not only differences in ways of … More The darker side of mestizaje
Escuta o gazal que fiz, Darling, em louvor de Hafiz. –Manoel Bandeira To historians my perception about race and the state is not a new, tentative intuition but an established fact. Literary people do not see their own liberal prejudice (now that we are in enlightened democracies, vestiges of older orders can be cleared out … More …darling, em louvor dos historiadores
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