Is it Brazil’s Turn? Comparative Approximations to the Country of the Future
Even as global financial and political institutions reel from the effects of the recent crisis, Brazil continues to gain media attention for its impressive record of economic growth and institutional development, and for the internationalist and independent-minded foreign policy it has adopted under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Read the rest of this entry »
Theoretical Cross-Pollination in Latin America: Mapping Transnational Exchanges
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comentario editorial
Theoretical Cross-Pollination in Latin America: Mapping Transnational Exchanges
Belén Bistué, Shawn Doubiago, Mela Jones Heestand, and Daphne Potts
University of California, Davis
The seventh issue of Brújula focuses on the inherently transnational and multilingual nature not only of Latin American art and culture, but also of the frames of knowledge and theories that define Latin America as a field— be they “misplaced,” “pluritopic,” “dependent,” “hybrid,” “diasporic,” or “traveling” theories. Read the rest of this entry »
perspectives
Monstrous Mapping: A/Typical American Journey through the Re-mapping of the Americas
Dane Johnson
San Francisco State University
On the first day of my upper-division undergraduate class “‘Typical American’: Narratives of Multiculturalism in the Americas from 1492 to the Present,” I ask my students what they think about when they hear or read the term “typical American.” Read the rest of this entry »
archivo
Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Del contrato social o principios del derecho político
Edición de 1810 realizada por Mariano Moreno
LIBRO PRIMERO
Mi intencion es indagar, si puede haber en el orden civil una regla de administracion cierta y legitima, considerando á los hombres, como ellos son; y las leyes, como pueden ser. Read the rest of this entry »
Comentario: El Contrato Social, de Jean-Jaqcque Rousseau: Recepción, tradicción, conjeturas
Susana Romano Sued
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba/Conicet
Es indudable que el Contrato social ha sido una de las obras de mayor alcance y significación en los últimos dos siglos, en Occidente, y que su recepción, multiplicada en distintas épocas, lenguas y geografías por la vía de la traducción, constituye una prueba irrefutable de ello. Read the rest of this entry »
enfoques
La imagen de la frontera en la época de la Revolución Mexicana: el caso de ambos Nogales
Claudia Francom
Universidad de Arizona
Esta investigación proporciona una descripción historiográfica de cómo se relacionan el espacio y la idea de frontera en la línea que divide Nogales, Arizona, de Nogales, Sonora. Read the rest of this entry »
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning: The Ethnographic Surrealism of Octavio Paz and Bengamin Péret
Timothy Gerhard
SUNY Cortland
Throughout the nineteenth century, Latin American writers from a wide range of newly independent countries incorporated major European trends—Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism—into their writing and thought, the idea of Paris loomed large in the Latin American imagination and European ideas sat atop the hierarchy in the arenas of politics and aesthetics. Read the rest of this entry »
Travel, Anti-Travel, and Subjectivity in the Poetry of Waly Salomão
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
Harvard University
In this paper, I want to bring together several things: the poetry of the Syrian-Brazilian poet Waly Salomão (1943–2003), especially those parts that reflect on travel versus fixity; certain tendencies in Brazilian modernism tied to the country’s authoritarian history that precede, or even anticipate, Salomão’s poetry; and a casting of these alongside theories about the formation of poetic subjectivity extrapolated from the work of linguist Émile Benveniste. Read the rest of this entry »
Mambrú, novela sobre el Batallón Colombia en la Guerra de Corea: Memoria, erotismo y olvido en la doctrina Marilyn Monroe
Moisés Park
University of California, Davis
Mambrú (1996), de Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán (1946-2005), es una novela inspirada por eventos relacionados con la guerra de Corea (25 de junio de 1950 – 27 al julio de 1953), basada en la investigación del novelista sobre el Batallón Colombia. Read the rest of this entry »
American Inheritances: Crumbling Patriarchies in “Southern” Narratives
Kristin L. Squint
Louisiana State University
In the introduction to Hemispheric American Studies, Caroline Levander and Robert Levine describe the Americas as “intricately intertwined geographies, movements, and cross-filiations among peoples, regions, diasporas, and nations”. Read the rest of this entry »
en route
Collaborative Writing and Collaborative Teaching in the Humanities
The collaborative theme of this issue’s en route section has highlighted for us the inherent difficulty—and value—of proposing a definition for a process that means different things to different people. Read the rest of this entry »
Utilidad e inconvenientes de la escritura en colaboración para la vida (académica)
Hace unos días escuchaba a alguien contar que, en una reunión informal y distendida entre académicos, todos habían estado de acuerdo en que lo primero que se lee de un libro son los agradecimientos. Read the rest of this entry »
Team-Teaching Transnationalism: Comparison and Difference in the Americas
Suzanne Bost and Elizabeth Russ
Transnational comparison is necessary for understanding the Americas, but one must look beyond one’s familiar perspective in order to avoid intellectual imperialism. Read the rest of this entry »
Faculty-Graduate Student Collaboration in Teaching Third-Year German
Gail Finney and Diana Lysinger
Although the opportunity for collaborative teaching is not common in higher education, the instructional advantages are obvious. Read the rest of this entry »
Developing a Professional Identity through Collaboration
Amy S. Gerald, Kathleen McEvoy, Shannon C. Stewart, and Pam Whitfield
In our second year of graduate school, we realized that organizing a four person panel for a conference was more likely to result in acceptance to the program than fielding an individual presentation. Read the rest of this entry »
Collaboration against Precarity in Academic Work
Jeffrey Shantz
Kwantlen University College
Higher learning, and the conditions and contexts in which it is pursued, have been characterized recently by economic and political precarity, or conditions of insecurity affecting material and emotional well-being. Read the rest of this entry »
arte factu
How to Reside in a Plurality of Worlds: Heterotopia in Enrique Chagoya’s Borderlandia
Belén Bistué, Shawn Doubiago, and Daphne Potts
University of California, Davis
Enrique Chagoya’s art has a recognizable quality about it. Whether it be the many artistic influences one finds within his works, the political, historical, or cultural icons that are easily identified, or Chagoya’s unique style of combining various multiple, temporal, or spatial elements in each work, one thing is certain: Chagoya plays an important role today as an “all-American artist.” Read the rest of this entry »
topographies
“South America”: Naming the Taboo — An Interview with Sharon Doubiago
Belén Bistué, Shawn Doubiago, Mela Jones Heestand, and Daphne Potts
University of California, Davis
Sharon Doubiago was kind enough to sit down for an interview in October 2008 with the Guest Editors of Volume 7 of Brújula to discuss her 1992 narrative poem South America Mi Hija. Read the rest of this entry »
travesía crítica
Central America at the Forefront of the Avant-garde: Hacia un nuevo canon de la vanguardia en América Central: Urdimbre de textos acromegálicos, invisibilizados por los discursos críticos by Francisco Alejandro Méndez
Brian Davisson
University of California, Davis
While the difficulties of establishing Central American writers and works within the greater canon of Latin American literature is well pronounced within the isthmus and largely overlooked outside of it, Francisco Alejandro Méndez’s 2006 publication Hacia un nuevo canon de la vanguardia en América Central successfully demonstrates the value of revisionism with respect to the vanguardia in Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »
A Revisionist Approach to Early Modern Atlantic History: The Shared Grammar of European Discourses of Colonization: Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550 – 1700 by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Emiro F. Martínez-Osorio
Sewanee: The University of the South
Puritan Conquistadors, by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, is a prime example of the vitality of Early Modern Atlantic historiography and required reading for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the ideologies and discourses that legitimized European overseas expansion during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Read the rest of this entry »
Cuzqueño identity and the institutionalization of folklore: Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru by Zoila Mendoza
Isabel Porras
University of California, Davis
Zoila S. Mendoza’s latest book, Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru moves away from contemporary analyses of performance and looks to the activities of musicians in the first half of the 20th century in order to understand the ways in which a cuzqueño identity was created and exported to the nation and world at large via folklore. Read the rest of this entry »
contributors and editors
Volume 7 Acknowledgements
We would like to offer our great thanks to all of those who contributed to this volume in order to ensure its completion. Thank you to the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas (HIA), the Departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese at UC Davis, and the Graduate Student Association (GSA) for their generous support of this project. Read the rest of this entry »
Volume 7 Editors & Committees
Thanks to the following Brújula Volume 7 editors and committee volunteers. Read the rest of this entry »
Volume 7 Contributors
Thanks to the following contributors to Brújula Volume 7. Read the rest of this entry »