Creole slaves in New Orleans, 1863
02/03/2013
Here they are. Axé.
What are literary studies?
02/03/2013
Literary histories were created in the nineteenth century as part of the nation-formation process but did literary works produced in this period really participate in that in such a self-aware way? What if some of them work against it — intentionally or not? Also, literature is taught to teach language and culture, but also aesthetics, … More What are literary studies?
Le samedi
02/03/2013
It is so cold, dry, and bright in New Orleans that one could be in Castile. The old quarter was rebuilt by Spain after a fire in the eighteenth century and it is all just so Spanish. Nobody has commented on my changing blog scene. The present picture is not as rich as the one … More Le samedi
El reporte para el writing group
01/03/2013
The colleague I am losing, and who is my only colleague, and who will not be replaced, has now edited my project description and he is very intelligent. (As people working on the literature and history of Hispanic world, which is of course a very large part of the whole world, we are “in a … More El reporte para el writing group
Pôrto das Caixas
01/03/2013
The first cinema novo film. Axé.
John White
28/02/2013
Some recent antics of our Superintendent of Education, a Jindal appointee and charter schools advocate. Axé.
That Discerning Eye: Vision, Race, and the State in Modern Latin American Literature
28/02/2013
This series of overlapping essays examines the articulation of race and the state as it appears in literary and cultural discourse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Authors and works discussed include Brazilian authors Aluízio de Azevedo (O Mulato), Mário de Andrade (modernismo, canonicity and ethnography), Gilberto Freyre (Casa-Grande e Senzala and other writings), and … More That Discerning Eye: Vision, Race, and the State in Modern Latin American Literature
Mariano José de Larra
28/02/2013
My class cannot read Larra and they are seniors. They cannot read him. The vocabulary is too esoteric, the sentences too long, the references too esoteric — but mostly the issue is, these articles are somewhat complex texts. Events are narrated and commented upon and the students would prefer that each artículo de costumbres were … More Mariano José de Larra
We are in April, 2004
28/02/2013
I have decided we are in April, 2004, before I got involved with that ex who showed me blogging software and thus, to his great ire, a way to escape from him. In any case I had just written a really interesting essay for this book I am still working on and I was very … More We are in April, 2004
Minuit
28/02/2013
Doing what one wishes, what one thinks best, always gives the best results. I am not raised to even imagine doing this, but to choose the most interesting thing off a preapproved list or to choose, from the list, what is desired for me. I am still trying to learn to do as I see … More Minuit
