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A brief genealogy of the category of the subject from Althusser and Foucault to Badiou’s Theory of the Subject

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This essay traces the genealogy and evolution of the category of the subject as it developed in the thought of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, and Alain Badiou. As will be seen, within the fruitful and complementary dialogue about the subject and subjectivity formation among these three French thinkers, there are major discrepancies in their approaches, from Althusser’s seemingly passive view of the subject as a victim of state oppression, to Foucault’s one, embedded in power but with the capacity of resistance, and, finally, to Badiou’s understanding, in his book Théorie du sujet (Theory of the Subject, 1982), of the subject as the one who courageously takes risks to put into practice the truth brought about by the event in order to radically transform the present situation.

Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination. Re-reading History

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination. Re-reading History

JOSE MARIA ARGUEDAS'S EL SEXTO AND THE GROTESQUE BODY: THE JAPANESE CHARACTER AT THE BOUNDARIES OF NATIONAL BELONGING

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

JOSE MARIA ARGUEDAS'S EL SEXTO AND THE GROTESQUE BODY: THE JAPANESE CHARACTER AT THE BOUNDARIES OF NATIONAL BELONGING

GOING NATIVE ANTI-INDIGENISM IN VARGAS LLOSA'S THE STORYTELLER AND DEATH IN THE ANDES

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

GOING NATIVE ANTI-INDIGENISM IN VARGAS LLOSA'S THE STORYTELLER AND DEATH IN THE ANDES

Theory after Theory An Intellectual History of Literary Theory from 1950 to the Early 21st Century.

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Theory after Theory An Intellectual History of Literary Theory from 1950 to the Early 21st Century.

And What Have You Done?

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

And What Have You Done?

Sixteen interview with contemporary Chilean authors: the emergence of a new narrative

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Sixteen interview with contemporary Chilean authors: the emergence of a new narrative

Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture

Roberto Bolano's Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Roberto Bolano's Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard

Roberto Bolano, a Less Distant Star Critical Essays

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Roberto Bolano, a Less Distant Star Critical Essays

The coolie speaks:: Chinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The coolie speaks:: Chinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba

Two contradictory visions of the Catholic Church in the work of Ruben!Dario

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Two contradictory visions of the Catholic Church in the work of Ruben!Dario

Lesbianism and Caricature in Griselda Gambaro's Lo impenetrable

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ABSTRACT This article explores the work of novelist Griselda Gambaro as a lesbian discourse that counters the prevailing patriarchal discourse of the Latin American dictatorships. Gambaro's work is placed in the context of other Latin American "lesbian" texts that also challenge the political status quo by providing deviant models of female sexuality.

The affinity of the eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio L�pez-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, L�pez-Calvo constructs an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities. With deftly sensitive interviews and comments, he portrays the difficulties of being a Japanese Peruvian. Despite a few notable examples, Asian Peruvians have been excluded from a sense of belonging or national identity in Peru, which provides L�pez-Calvo with the opportunity to record what the community says about their own cultural production. In so doing, L�pez-Calvo challenges fixed notions of Japanese Peruvian identity. The Affinity of the Eye scrutinizes authors such as Jos� Watanabe, Fernando Iwasaki, Augusto Higa, Doris...

The Death of the Author through False Translation in Mario Bellatin's Orientalised Japan

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article argues that Mario Bellatin's exploration of the potential relationship between writing, translation and physical deformity leads, perhaps unconsciously, to the continuation of exoticising stereotypes about 'Oriental' cultures. In El jardín de la señora Murakami, Shiki Nagaoka: una nariz de ficción, and Biografía ilustrada de Mishima, Bellatin resorts to Japanese characters to distance himself from his own writings, as if it were the culture that is the most alien to his own. His lucubrations about reading and writing are sometimes accompanied of exocitising and orientalist overtones, which he mocks at times. © 2013 The Author. Bulletin of Latin American Research © 2013 Society for Latin American Studies.

Cipango

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Cipango

Essays on Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Peruvian Literature and Culture ‐ by Hart, Stephen M. and Wood, David

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Essays on Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Peruvian Literature and Culture ‐ by Hart, Stephen M. and Wood, David

Sixteen interviews with contemporary Chilean authors: The emergence of a new narrative.

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Sixteen interviews with contemporary Chilean authors: The emergence of a new narrative.

Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America

The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism ‐ by Tarica, E.

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism ‐ by Tarica, E.

Chicanismo Meets Zapatismo: U.S. Third World Feminism and Transnational Activism in Graciela Limón's "Erased Faces"

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Chicanismo Meets Zapatismo: U.S. Third World Feminism and Transnational Activism in Graciela Limón's "Erased Faces"

Imaging the Chinese in Cuban literature and culture

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

More than 150 years ago, the first Chinese contract laborers ("coolies") arrived in Cuba to work the colonial plantations. Eventually, over 150,000 Chinese immigrated to the island, and their presence has had a profound effect on all aspects of Cuban cultural production, from food to books to painting. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo's interpretations often go against the grain of earlier research, refusing to conceive of Cuban identity either in terms of a bipolar black/white opposition or an idyllic and harmonious process of miscegenation. He also counters traditional representations of chinos mambises, Chinese immigrants who fought for Cuba in the Wars of Independence against Spain. Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture fills a void in literary criticism, breaking new ground within the small field of Sino-Cuban studies. It is destined to set the tone for years to come. © 2008 by Ignacio López-Calvo. All rights reserved.

Water, Extractivism, Biopolitics, and Latin American Indigeneity in Arguedas's Los rios profundos and Potdevin's Palabrero