Category Archives: Siglo XIX

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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Books from OUP

Posted on 17th March 2014 by Iansã

There is Brian Attebery, Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth. It could be interesting for some classes. There is the Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. Then there is American Blood. I need this book. If … Continue reading →

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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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Brunner and Mexico and all

Posted on 11th November 2013 by Iansã

Here is an article to read, and I need to read Brunner, have done for years. And I can see the Mexican courses I would like to teach: one on estridentismo and other vanguardias, using Tatiana Flores’ book and others, … Continue reading →

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The Libertine Colony

Posted on 5th October 2013 by Iansã

Keywords Doris Garraway, Werner Sollors. There is even more bibliography on these stories of incest and miscegenation then I realize.

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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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Theories of racial mixing in the United States

Posted on 17th July 2013 by Iansã

Ralph Waldo Emerson and others in the mid nineteenth century were for it, and spoke of it in Vasconcelos-like terms. Emerson, 1845: “In this continent — asylum of all races — the energy of the Irish, Germans, Swedes, Poles and … Continue reading →

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O meu livro

Posted on 18th June 2013 by Iansã

My central claim in my book is that the texts in question embody struggles over racial meaning. The book has to start with a discussion of Cecilia Valdés, since the title refers to this novel. I will also translate Regin … Continue reading →

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Nelson Osorio

Posted on 13th June 2013 by Iansã

In slideshare, a nice book by Nelson Osorio on the 19th century. Really I am looking for his discussion of vanguardia as reajuste cultural, but this is also good.

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