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Emil’ Keme. Le Maya Q’Atzij /Our Maya Word: Poetics Of Resistance In Guatemala. U Of Minnesota P, 2021., Rigoberto Guevara
Emil’ Keme. Le Maya Q’Atzij /Our Maya Word: Poetics Of Resistance In Guatemala. U Of Minnesota P, 2021., Rigoberto Guevara
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Emil’ Keme. Le Maya Q’atzij /Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala. U of Minnesota P, 2021. 248 pp.
Central American Enunciations From Us Zones Of Indifference, Or The Sentences Of Coloniality, Oriel María Siu
Central American Enunciations From Us Zones Of Indifference, Or The Sentences Of Coloniality, Oriel María Siu
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay explores Central American diasporic experiences in the US as sites for the continued exertion and reproduction of coloniality. A longstanding matrix of power transgressing all forms of borders and permeating all aspects of life—an irreversible and transgressive disease—coloniality operates so forcefully that it upholds its own survival. In the process, we live its plural incongruity and even extend its most contemptuous signs. Surveying a series of narrative texts produced from within the Central American diaspora in cities like Los Angeles and New York—Roberto Quesada’s Big Banana, Oscar René Benitez’s Inmortales, Hector Tobar’s Tattooed Soldier, and …
Atlantic Nessologies: Image, Territory, Value , Francisco-]. Hernández Adrián
Atlantic Nessologies: Image, Territory, Value , Francisco-]. Hernández Adrián
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay addresses the emerging field of Atlantic Studies and questions the status of "the Atlantic" as an object of study. Rather than assuming a self-evident grid where Atlantic cultural phenomena oscillate between such poles as "centers and peripheries," or "the colonizer and the colonized," I consider a different formulation of the Atlantic. Taking as a starting point an analysis of a poem by Tomás Morales, a modernista poet from the Canary Islands, my essay outlines the notion of "Atlantic nessologies." Three parallel departures are offered from this analysis: image (or the realm of the imaginary); territory (or spatial and …