Category Archives: Primitivisms

Things related to Raymond Williams

Posted on 5th August 2018 by Iansã

The poet I am trying to translate is actually neobaroque and that is why I am having difficulty — I am trying to make him modernist. But my modernism is neobaroque, anyway, so things work out in their way. I … Continue reading →

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Gathering my thoughts

Posted on 25th May 2015 by Iansã

That Goodrich article “From Barbarism to Civilization: Travels of a Latin American Text,” from ALH years ago, is one of those ancient articles I have in xerox and never recycle. My notes say it is important for Orientalist sources, oriental … Continue reading →

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Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination

Posted on 21st March 2014 by Iansã

Here is a nice book to read. It fits my research project, and could even be used as a course textbook. Since the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, the state has engaged in vigorous campaign to forge a … Continue reading →

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And I must reread Cornejo (and friends)

Posted on 13th March 2014 by Iansã

Here is an interesting piece on Cornejo on indigenismo and I should consider it.

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Más aún sobre el Facundo

Posted on 8th February 2014 by Iansã

The first English translation of Facundo was made in 1868 by the widow of Horace Mann; it was reviewed in The Nation. I never read Diana Sorensen Goodrich’s book on Facundo but I should. She had a very good article … Continue reading →

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Simposio virtual A Contracorriente

Posted on 27th September 2013 by Iansã

Here it is; I should attend. And I should read this journal more regularly, and get caught up on the work of Román de la Campa; these two things are not intrinsically connected but are both on my list, and … Continue reading →

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LARR 48:2 (2013)

Posted on 3rd September 2013 by Iansã

In the interest of not having too many things, I am giving the current issue of LARR to a graduate student. Of interest to me in it are: — Zac Zimmer, “Barbarism in the Muck of the Present. Dystopia and … Continue reading →

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The anthropological turn in poetry

Posted on 18th February 2013 by Iansã

…from Rimbaud to Leiris. This fits in with my plan for re-studying certain aspects of the avant-garde.

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Fernando Rosenberg

Posted on 24th October 2012 by Iansã

F.’s piece in Geomodernisms implies, if I understand it correctly, that Brazilian modernismo does not actually monumentalize the modern or eat the other, but makes visible what other representational regimes had obscured. The piece starts out by suggesting that literature … Continue reading →

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Andermann on Maps

Posted on 16th September 2012 by Iansã

This starts the second part of the book, which is also on maps (the first was on museums). There is an epigraph from Kant, on understanding as a territory, the seeker as a seafarer, and the ocean the “native home … Continue reading →

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