A conversation for SPAN 312 and RMST 202 about Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. With Brianne Orr-Alvarez and Jon Beasley-Murray.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
A great writer not only writes great work, but also, more fundamentally and importantly, changes our sense of what great work is, and even charts a new role for the writer in society.
On Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs
A conversation for SPAN 312 about Mariano Azuela’s novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs (Los de abajo). With Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Jon Beasley-Murray.
The Underdogs
Azuela reveals aspects of the Revolution that are apolitical, anti-political, or even infrapolitical (the non-political conditions of possibility for the political), in that he depicts it in terms of drives and emergent habits that have not yet fully coalesced into political form.
On Nellie Campobello, Cartucho
A conversation for SPAN 312 about Nellie Campobello’s novel of the Mexican Revolution, Cartucho. With Ryan Long and Jon Beasley-Murray.
Cartucho
Campobello restores the idea that something was truly at stake in a conflict that can otherwise appear so chaotic and disorderly: at its best, it was fought for the right to play, to laugh, to feel, to be free from constraint.
Mama Blanca’s Memoirs
Hopscotch! The Rules of the Game
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Aves sin nido
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Dos puntos sobre su lectura de Aves sin nido…
- Por favor, no falten de leer el “Proemio.” Sobre todo porque habla del papel de la literatura (hasta del papel de la novela), es para nosotros una parte clave para nuestro entiendimiento del libro.
- Normalmente no recomiendo que lean las varias introducciones etc., pero esta vez diría que, si tienen tiempo, la introducción de Cornejo Polar (“Aves sin nido como alegoría nacional”) sí vale la pena. De hecho, Cornejo Polar es uno de los críticos más interesantes sobre la literatura andina (y sus límites).