I thought I needed this–it is a more concise version of something from the other manuscript–but I cut it. Maybe I can use it, or use it to shorten the other manuscript. The ten chapters of Toward a Global Idea of Race are framed by three shorter pieces that throw into relief the racial dimension … More Also cut
I was going to publish something in LACES, and I forgot. Perhaps I will. And there are other things to remember. I had a guest speaker in my Spanish 202. And my colleague said that the reason we should leave the university is that teaching is obstructed and there is no administrative support (I would … More LACES and More
It was a book I missed, and I still need it. That, as I knew, was the work I wanted to be doing at the time. Here is a review, with comments on Patricia Seed as well. Here is Sylvia Wynter’s piece. Here is another excluded sentence (from my review essay): In this sense Ferreira … More Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas
I have a photocopy of this book and it has always been something I should seriously read. It still is, even though it is old now. I forget that I have it because it is a photocopy. I’m going to get rid of the photocopy and probably buy the book, even though I do not … More Colonial Desire
Sentences I did not use in text #2 That racialization does not only use a logic of exclusion, but one of obliteration is one of Homo Modernus’ central insights. Why characters of color are elaborated and then disappeared in the novela das oito of the 1980s was a motivating question for Ferreira da Silva early … More Sentences for the next paper on Ferreira da Silva
Mariátegui wrote about Georg Brandes in a 1927 article that is included in El artista y la época. Brandes and his good friend Rilke had just died. Hays they [cara a Goethe y a Nietzche–what DOES “cara a” mean, really?] belong to the tribe of good Europeans. Brandes especially. His study of Ibsen was one … More Mariátegui on Brandes
See Ferreira da Silva 179-80 on Prospero and Caliban. Does this apply to the Reino de este mundo? To magical realism? That of course will have to be contrasted to what Coronil says about REM, which he likes. But still, I think this is very interesting. Axé.
I suppose I should not have recycled the photocopy of Ruffinelli, Poesía y descolonización. La poesía de Nicolás Guillén. México: Editorial Oasis/Universidad Veracruzana, 1985, 177 págs. Looking at it irritated me no end. But it’s a perfect example of what I am talking about: Guillén is part of his “us” against the US. So he … More Ruffinelli
I wrote this down and I cannot remember when or who gave me these instructions. I did not understand them well at the time, either. In any case, this was in Spanish, not Portuguese. Axé.
I have finally ordered Alberto’s book, and we will find out what I think of his story. In the meantime, I never read his whole schtick on Latin Americanism. Perhaps now I shall. It’s The Cultural Practice of Latin Americanism and it’s in three volumes, and it started in Dispositio. There’s an article I’m recycling … More Latin Americanism
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