I’m taking a chance on this book remaining available. My copy, a Portuguese translation, was bought in São Paulo in 1985, and it is nostalgic for that reason. But it’s so yellowed and dog-eared, it looks like a corpse on my shelf, so it’s something I can shed. I remember Jorge Schwarz’ classes, and everything, … More Vanguardia y cosmopolitismo
Recently, I’ve had some days where I felt well here, bringing summer relaxation from Europe and keeping the bubble around me. Not all days, and right now I am not doing well. All of this is to say I shouldn’t prevent myself from feeling well, don’t need to transfer pain onto work, don’t need to … More Comment vivre
I’m right: race is at the center (of the colonial drama). Of course one knows this but my questions all started out with these novels being taught as examples of literary movements, the issues they raise not addressed at all, and with the fact that I assumed, from my education, that racism was something we’d … More More Mbembe
You see, I am right. Discerning race is something you must do to maintain the colonial gaze. It is really quite simple. Page 111:For the Black Man to be seen and for him to be identified as such, a veil must have already been placed over his face, making it a face “bereft of all … More Mbembe on vision (and more)
Eva Thompson compares Polish, Ukrainian and Russian literature. Book: Imperial Knowledge: Russian literature and Colonialism. Also, Troubadour Imperium: Pushkin to Solshenitsyn. Axel Gasquet – race and orientalism José Alvares Junos – Mater dolorosa, la idea de España en el XIX Routledge guide or anthology to the Iberian world in the colonial period – a view … More Things we were talking about in Lviv
Foucault, dealing with racism and its inscription in the mechanisms of the state and power, noted in this regard that “the modern State can scarcely function without becoming involved with racism at some point, within certain limits and subject to certain conditions.” Race or racism, “in a normalizing society,” he noted, “is the precondition that … More Mbembe on Foucault
The transnationalization of the Black condition was a constitutive moment for modernity, with the Atlantic serving as its incubator. After Independence, a class of Creole Whites asserted and consolidated their influence. Oldquestions of heterogeneity, difference, and liberty were once again posed, with new elites using the ideology of mestizaje to deny and disqualify the racial … More Reading Mbembe
Moro: planned the translation and translated two lines. Learned about Aldo Pellegrini. Tried to contact Marco Rivera for a joint reading at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. I could invite him to NOPF, and Guillermo Parra. I must get in touch with Jesús. And I should write the Moro article. LASA 2026: worked … More What I did today
Orwell, George, Animal Farm. I wanted to reread this, although it is very depressing. Perhaps I didn’t like the format of this edition, the pages were quite narrow. But mostly I cannot reread this because I cannot handle animal stories, they are always too sad. Granados, Pedro, Inkarrí. All right, I had bought this to … More Books destroyed in a small flood
I want this book but it is very expensive. Also, I never doubted Trilce was a dadaist book. Anyway, the author is doing other interesting work as well. Apparently Vallejo’s grandmothers weren’t full-blooded Chimú, they were mestizas, and Larrea might not have been accurate on those gallego priests he allegedly had as grandfathers, either. Axé.
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