Rereading the literate Andean past. Then, Manigot on Haiti: Library shelves sag under the weight of books on Haiti, old and new. Many were written by Haitians in the nineteenth century. They are exceptional studies challenging racism, but they also probe and dissect with honesty and candor the causes of Haiti’s repeated failures at sustained … More Des articles, des livres
I must compose my to-do list: the Service Learning project, the Vallejo panel, the Curriculum and Instruction article, the Houston paper and its submission somewhere, and the Vallejo paper … not to mention the prison presentation. I also have the prize submission, the archival research, and the bureaucratic document on my own behalf. For Vallejo, … More That Vallejo panel
I do not know that I understand this text, yet, well enough to explain it, but I do remember writing a paper in graduate school entitled “Poetry as gesture in the criticism of Baudelaire.” I might be able to find this paper again but it had ideas in it including the poem as event (something … More The author as gesture, again
Now I need Agamben for two different projects so I have no choice but to study. Here, the author is gesture. Axé.
I have so many books to read but I always want others. If there were bookstores I would walk to them and browse, and if the libraries had budgets I could peruse new acquisitions. The desired books of the day are Hugh Thomas, World without end: Spain, Philip II, and the first global empire and … More Books on imperial Spain, and other books
To read on El tungsteno, one of Vallejo’s underrated works. Axé.
Avant-garde antidiets and futurist cooking. I want to own this book but it is very expensive; I can get it at LSU or Tulane. I need it for possible future work on Oswald. Guide for the Mexican migrant. Rethinking the Spanish Empire through its archives. Taming PARES, or how to actually use the Spanish Archives … More Summer reading
Here is a description of the book, in a HALLALI, a cultural studies journal on the Great War and the Hispanic world. It is an attempt to throw light on the life and work of Vallejo from the point of view of documents that have been hard to get or to see heretofore. It includes … More Textos rescatados de Vallejo
Here is a reasonable point of view on the value of that classic study of Vallejo: Izquierdo Ríos saw that it was important to know Vallejo’s contexts, in part so as not to substitute one’s own contexts and assumptions; and the indigenous element is real and important. He also started the vallejista tradition of making … More Francisco Izquierdo Ríos
One of my classes was talking about some letters and speeches of Simón Bolívar, and how they were about plans for the creation of a country and region that not only did not exist in the form he imagined, but would not, and how it he made it clear that he knew this. There was … More On writing, time, and absence
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