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Full-Text Articles in Latin American Languages and Societies
Translating The Francophone Caribbean: Centering Black Production, Decentering Translation Practices, Nathan H. Dize, Charly Verstraet
Translating The Francophone Caribbean: Centering Black Production, Decentering Translation Practices, Nathan H. Dize, Charly Verstraet
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In her article, “A Tree as a Record: On Translating Mahagony by Edouard Glissant,” translator Betsy Wing recounts how Martinican writer Edouard Glissant expressed his disinclination to respond to translators’ questions and justified his intention by saying, “I wrote it once, now it’s your turn to write it” (124). According to Glissant, translating and writing are similar in nature. The art of translation therefore does not lie in the process of translating words into another language but in the skill to compose a text anew, that is to say to develop unique ways of ‘writing’ and therefore to deconstruct the …
Jason Herbeck. Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature And Literary Identity In The French Caribbean. Liverpool Up, 2017; 2020., Nathan H. Dize
Jason Herbeck. Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature And Literary Identity In The French Caribbean. Liverpool Up, 2017; 2020., Nathan H. Dize
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Jason Herbeck. Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean. Liverpool UP, 2017; 2020. x + 330 pp.
Heredia, Juanita. Mapping South American Latina/O Literature In The United States: Interviews With Contemporary Writers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019., Manuela Borzone
Heredia, Juanita. Mapping South American Latina/O Literature In The United States: Interviews With Contemporary Writers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019., Manuela Borzone
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Juanita Heredia. Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. vii + 238 pp.
Inés Del Alma Mía (Inés Of My Soul) Or How To Retrain The Chronicle, Chris Schulenburg
Inés Del Alma Mía (Inés Of My Soul) Or How To Retrain The Chronicle, Chris Schulenburg
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Among the multitude of lettered discourses employed to communicate Latin America’s marvels during the conquest, the chronicle constituted a particularly effective option. That is, its necessary framing for a Spanish or Portuguese courtly audience with heterogeneous contents mixing history and fiction allowed for a text that served to validate personal service to the crown. Part and parcel of these chronicles’ objectives, of course, consisted of portraying an indigenous population supposedly anxious to accept the work load of the encomienda as well as the Catholic conversions that accompanied this legislated slavery. Moreover, this Eurocentric perspective also boasted an almost completely masculine …
Jarrod Hayes. Queer Roots For The Diaspora: Ghosts In The Family Tree. Ann Arbor: U Of Michigan P, 2016., Annie De Saussure
Jarrod Hayes. Queer Roots For The Diaspora: Ghosts In The Family Tree. Ann Arbor: U Of Michigan P, 2016., Annie De Saussure
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Jarrod Hayes. Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the family tree. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. 325 pp.
Javier García Liendo. El Intelectual Y La Cultura De Masas. Argumentos Latinoamericanos En Torno A Ángel Rama Y José María Arguedas. West Lafayette: Purdue Up, 2017., Fernando Fonseca Pacheco
Javier García Liendo. El Intelectual Y La Cultura De Masas. Argumentos Latinoamericanos En Torno A Ángel Rama Y José María Arguedas. West Lafayette: Purdue Up, 2017., Fernando Fonseca Pacheco
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Javier García Liendo. El intelectual y la cultura de masas. Argumentos latinoamericanos en torno a Ángel Rama y José María Arguedas. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2017.
Frederick Luis Aldama. Latino Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey By Interview. San Diego: ¡Hyperbole Books!, 2017., Jessica Rutherford
Frederick Luis Aldama. Latino Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey By Interview. San Diego: ¡Hyperbole Books!, 2017., Jessica Rutherford
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Frederick Aldama. Latino Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview. San Diego: ¡Hyperbole Books!, 2017.
Behind The Stars, Tiffani D. Lawrence
Behind The Stars, Tiffani D. Lawrence
Crossing Borders: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship
From the perspective of the author, “Behind the Stars,” takes a meditative look at ancient Inca astronomy and the culture surrounding both the sky and the idea of darkness. A research-based, creative nonfiction essay in which the author explores the history of an Andean rainforest, the people that used to inhabit it, and the constellations above it. Two types of constellations are discussed from a vantage point near the equator – both light-based constellations and the dark constellations specific to the Inca and Quechua cultures. This essay examines the role of astronomy in the Incas’ everyday life and culture, while …
Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies Of Identity In El Hombre Del Acordeón, Julie A. Sellers
Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies Of Identity In El Hombre Del Acordeón, Julie A. Sellers
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Boundaries are never as definitive as they appear at first glance, for they create a broader zone, the borderlands, where the people, practices, and products from both sides comingle. Despite boundaries' demarcating intent, the borderlands they cross are a syncretic blend of the lands on each side. The borderland as fictional setting draws our attention not to the fixedness of boundaries, but rather to their flexibility. Set in the Dominican-Haitian borderland, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's El hombre del acordeón ('The Accordion Man') draws upon the dynamism of that geopolitical border to call into question other apparently definitive boundaries, thus challenging official …
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, 2012. xv + 314 pp.
Teaching “Global Learning” Through The Ecotestimonio: Ojos Negros By Eduardo Sguiglia In Class, Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Teaching “Global Learning” Through The Ecotestimonio: Ojos Negros By Eduardo Sguiglia In Class, Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay uses Eduardo Sguiglia’s Ojos negros (‘Black Eyes,’ 2010), a border-crossing, transnational ecotestimonial novel, to demonstrate step-by-step how instructors can effectively use ecotestimonial narratives in teaching undergraduate students to achieve global learning outcomes. Ecotestimonial texts prompt readers, and especially those readers removed from problems depicted, to confront the multiple facets of wicked problems of environmental degradation and to become aware of how the representation (or lack of representation) of those problems in different contexts shapes social responses to them. By moving students intentionally from comprehension of narrative and context to a focus on higher order thinking and on the …
Joshua Lund. The Mestizo State: Reading Race In Modern Mexico. Minneapolis: U Of Minnesota P, 2012. Xx + 217 Pp., Miguel Ángel González-Abellás
Joshua Lund. The Mestizo State: Reading Race In Modern Mexico. Minneapolis: U Of Minnesota P, 2012. Xx + 217 Pp., Miguel Ángel González-Abellás
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Joshua Lund. The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. xx + 217 pp.
Cynthia Tompkins. Experimental Latin American Cinema. Austin: U Of Texas P, 2013. X+ 294 Pp., Carolina Rocha
Cynthia Tompkins. Experimental Latin American Cinema. Austin: U Of Texas P, 2013. X+ 294 Pp., Carolina Rocha
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Cynthia Tompkins. Experimental Latin American Cinema. Austin: U of Texas P, 2013. x+ 294 pp.
Mark D. Anderson. Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics Of Catastrophe In Latin America. Charlottesville: U Of Virginia P, 2011. 241 Pp., Nicasio Urbina
Mark D. Anderson. Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics Of Catastrophe In Latin America. Charlottesville: U Of Virginia P, 2011. 241 Pp., Nicasio Urbina
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Mark D. Anderson. Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America. Charlottesville: U of Virgina P, 2011. 241 pp.