Guerra neoliberal
30/07/2020
Desaparición y búsqueda en el norte de México. The complete book. Axé.
Another great course in comparative literature
22/07/2020
You would study El reino de este mundo, Changó, el gran putas (which is also about the Haitian revolution but by an actual Afro-Latin author), and Haitian material, and Louisiana material on Mackandal. (I wish I could teach classes like that. A colleague said: “I am glad this is my retirement job, because if it … More Another great course in comparative literature
“Academe’s shameful neglect of Spanish”
14/07/2020
Here. Axé.
Plague course
13/07/2020
Best books for COVID-19 class — what would you add? 1. Boccaccio / Decameron — some say just first chapter 2. Camus / La peste 3. Mann / The magic mountain 4. Mann / Death in Venice 5. Anon. / Nibelungenlied (Bary, Chataeva) 6. GGM / Love in the time of cholera (Chataeva likes it) … More Plague course
I’ve heard there was a secret chord
07/07/2020
Music and the Jews, on the BBC. It is in three parts. There are Sephardic songs in it. Then there is this in Turkish Ladino, and much more. Axé.
César Moro
04/07/2020
Dance performance, Barcelona / 2020. There has also been a documentary, and a translation into Italian. One must keep up. Axé. .
On reparations
30/06/2020
Are reparations hard to do? Yes and no, although I tend to think no. Small reparations, but with a mentality for more, include affirmative action, which is in fact NOT a bad thing. Leslie, 4+: What are you doing? Why are you covered with papers when it is not exam week? Aged One, 30+: I … More On reparations
Hélpide dulce
26/06/2020
In Greek hope, the hope that was the last entity in Pandora’s box, is elpis, ἐλπίς — from which Vallejo, as Franco reminds us, derived the name Hélpide, of an invented deity. Now, elpis, it seems, means hope or also foreboding, despair: it is an expectation of good or ill. And the kingdom of God … More Hélpide dulce
Jorge Klor, “evoke-and-elide,” and the colonial difference
17/06/2020
I had a footnote using Jorge Klor de Alva . . . something smart from, I think, 1995 . . . and I am going to have to resurrect this in a next paper. What is the “colonial difference” (Mignolo)? In theory I know, but there is more to know about it. Is evoke-and-elide the … More Jorge Klor, “evoke-and-elide,” and the colonial difference
The last juicy footnote
16/06/2020
The text: I would add and emphasize that the literary construction of a national subject with indigenous roots, modern-democratic feeling, and transnational potential has been an elite, not a subaltern project in Latin America for over two hundred years. This subject is a product of colonialism, and it could be argued that it was crafted … More The last juicy footnote
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