The blurb: Rejecting the view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Denise Ferreira da Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Silva proposes that the notion of racial difference governs the global power configuration because … More This book
The rhetorical and narrative move I have been referring to, to myself, as “evoke and elide” all this time, is also, or is parallel to another which is “assimilate and erase.” Axé.
I can look at Piedra for my text. (My favorite article ever is this one.) And if I have trouble writing, I can consider using Scrivener. Axé.
I will start studying Russian at breakfast instead of looking at Facebook, I think. And Filipino food sounds great. There is a good article about race and representation in that region said to be Acadian. Chomsky has an article on the death of universities. On organizing, he says “Don’t be intimidated, don’t be frightened, and … More De bonnes choses
We will see this film! I don’t know whether to submit these poems to The Nation or to Two Lines. I am thinking Two Lines is a good place to send this author, although they want a longer set than what I was about to send off. There are other journals: Latin American Literature Today, … More World on a Wire
I woke up thinking of a poem to write and later while folding clothes thought of another. This is unusual. I should keep them in mind and work on them when I sleep again. One is about my death row prisoner. I think of him as work and he thinks of me as love. The … More Proto-poems
This is interesting. The comments on Anderson are instructive, and the reminder about Foucault on sexuality and race is useful. Yet more interesting is the book it is in, a large compendium on transformation, called both atlas and monument. Axé.
There are so many ways to start everything, so many points of entry, that I have become one of those who wants to write prefaces and prefaces to prefaces. But I think the starting point to push on for this is that DFS’ book is one of those that attributes racism — at least, the … More A starting point — or two, and a half
…we submit to LALT, which does not accept simultaneous submissions. Submissions should be sent to the Editor in Chief at the following address: Latin American Literature Today University of Oklahoma 780 Van Vleet Oval Kaufman Hall, Room 105 Norman, OK 73019-4037 Email: lalt@ou.edu IMPORTANT: FONT SIZE AND STYLE. All documents submitted to LALT should be … More After the current plan fails
I finished revising my copyedited essay and the journal accepted the revisions, including the ones that disagreed with their own. I submitted the three translations, with a very good introduction and translator’s note, to one place that takes multiple submissions, and sent an inquiry to another place where my work is known. The author managed … More Aargh
