Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies pr... more Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies projects interrogate in order to make visible how empire\u27s scattered remains throughout the Americas cross national borders as well as affective states of being. In so doing, Latina/o studies\u27 methodological recourse to and critique of empire seeks to apprehend empire\u27s legacies beyond the singular historical actor model of the exceptional nation-state in order to engage how empire saturates and conditions affects across space, time, and bodies
Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies pr... more Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies projects interrogate in order to make visible how empire\u27s scattered remains throughout the Americas cross national borders as well a affective states of being. In so doing, Latina/o studies\u27 methodological recourse to and critique of empire seeks to apprehend empire\u27s legacies beyond the singular historical actor model of the exceptional nation-state in order to engage how empire saturates and conditions affects across space, time, and bodies
Identificarse como “latino” en los Estados Unidos es instaurar una diferencia política radical qu... more Identificarse como “latino” en los Estados Unidos es instaurar una diferencia política radical que intenta contrarrestar las nocivas asociaciones socio-raciales que conllevan los apelativos “illegal”, “spic”, “greaser”, u otros aún menos apetecibles, tanto como las vivencias marcadas por la subalternidad política de los sujetos que habitan estas designaciones en la esfera pública de la contemplación nacional. Cuando se trata de latinos que a su vez se identifi can como queer1 la aseveración es aún más complicada, ya que esta sobreidentidad califi cativa se articula privilegiando el hecho de que lo signifi cativo de semejante postura identifi catoria es contrarrestar la heteronormatividad y sus diseños racializados en el entorno estadounidense. Entendido así, “ser” un latino queer implica una postura política que enfrenta una hegemonía que rehúsa califi car lo “latino”, mucho menos un “latino queer”, como algo cuyo signifi cado podría designar algo más que su asociación con la “ilega...
Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing seeks to provide a timely and representative archive of queer... more Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing seeks to provide a timely and representative archive of queer Latino literary and cultural memory in order to enact a more inclusive American literary canon that can apprehend the present and the future of queer Latino literary practice. We have assembled a diverse and representative sample of contemporary queer Latino writing in order to provide a source of pleasure for readers as well as a resource for instructors and students who have too often been deprived of this crucial though underanalyzed component of national literary culture
Spanish speakers have been present and writing in what is today the United States since the late ... more Spanish speakers have been present and writing in what is today the United States since the late sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers and colonizers described their experiences in chronicles, prose, poems, and epistolary exchanges. But it was not until the nineteenth century that Spanish speakers from various Latin American countries and Spain began to develop a cultural identity within the United States that was linguistically, racially, and culturally distinct from the Anglo-American majority culture. In the nineteenth century Spanish speakers comprised three principal groups: American citizens of Spanish ancestry, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Americans, and exiled political figures in the United States who fought for Latin American independence from Spain. The presence of these Spanish speakers transformed the American cultural landscape at a times when the United States was defining its own cultural and national identity in response to its rapid continental and hemi...
What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addr... more What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addresses how formal poetry may give form to loss and memory in the age of AIDS by structuring an exchange between the literary institutions that privilege poetry as a representational medium and the inability of language adequately to account for and remember loss. Campo’s What the Body Told haunts modernism’s legacy by construing it as the corpus delicti, literally the body of the crime, where “crime” is conceived as the insufficiency of modernist aesthetic agencies to give evidence of the “truth” about the body.1 Campo’s ghostly demarcations of the corpus delicti, through a search for keener sounds, are established in his implicit dialogue with modernism in general and with Wallace Stevens in particular
In this article I will read Before Night Falls as Arenas\u27 queer version of Cuban literary hist... more In this article I will read Before Night Falls as Arenas\u27 queer version of Cuban literary history and his relation to it. Against the commonplace assertions that demand that Before Night Falls be primarily understood, if not exclusively, as an invective against Fidel Castro or, in the other extreme, as an ars moriendi and AIDS testimonial from a sexual dissident, I wish to revisit this text on the twentieth anniversary of its publication to underscore a missed reading that can help situate how Arenas, one of the most transgressive writers theorized in this collection as the Generation of \u2772, might also be its most conservative in his attachments to the very modernist aesthetic agencies eschewed by so many of his generational contemporaries.5 This is not to ignore, of course, the most obvious and sometimes illuminating readings of Before Night Falls that have fallen on either end of the political continuum, or somewhere in between, but rather as an opportunity to revisit Arena...
Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies pr... more Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies projects interrogate in order to make visible how empire\u27s scattered remains throughout the Americas cross national borders as well as affective states of being. In so doing, Latina/o studies\u27 methodological recourse to and critique of empire seeks to apprehend empire\u27s legacies beyond the singular historical actor model of the exceptional nation-state in order to engage how empire saturates and conditions affects across space, time, and bodies
Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies pr... more Empire is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies projects interrogate in order to make visible how empire\u27s scattered remains throughout the Americas cross national borders as well a affective states of being. In so doing, Latina/o studies\u27 methodological recourse to and critique of empire seeks to apprehend empire\u27s legacies beyond the singular historical actor model of the exceptional nation-state in order to engage how empire saturates and conditions affects across space, time, and bodies
Identificarse como “latino” en los Estados Unidos es instaurar una diferencia política radical qu... more Identificarse como “latino” en los Estados Unidos es instaurar una diferencia política radical que intenta contrarrestar las nocivas asociaciones socio-raciales que conllevan los apelativos “illegal”, “spic”, “greaser”, u otros aún menos apetecibles, tanto como las vivencias marcadas por la subalternidad política de los sujetos que habitan estas designaciones en la esfera pública de la contemplación nacional. Cuando se trata de latinos que a su vez se identifi can como queer1 la aseveración es aún más complicada, ya que esta sobreidentidad califi cativa se articula privilegiando el hecho de que lo signifi cativo de semejante postura identifi catoria es contrarrestar la heteronormatividad y sus diseños racializados en el entorno estadounidense. Entendido así, “ser” un latino queer implica una postura política que enfrenta una hegemonía que rehúsa califi car lo “latino”, mucho menos un “latino queer”, como algo cuyo signifi cado podría designar algo más que su asociación con la “ilega...
Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing seeks to provide a timely and representative archive of queer... more Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing seeks to provide a timely and representative archive of queer Latino literary and cultural memory in order to enact a more inclusive American literary canon that can apprehend the present and the future of queer Latino literary practice. We have assembled a diverse and representative sample of contemporary queer Latino writing in order to provide a source of pleasure for readers as well as a resource for instructors and students who have too often been deprived of this crucial though underanalyzed component of national literary culture
Spanish speakers have been present and writing in what is today the United States since the late ... more Spanish speakers have been present and writing in what is today the United States since the late sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers and colonizers described their experiences in chronicles, prose, poems, and epistolary exchanges. But it was not until the nineteenth century that Spanish speakers from various Latin American countries and Spain began to develop a cultural identity within the United States that was linguistically, racially, and culturally distinct from the Anglo-American majority culture. In the nineteenth century Spanish speakers comprised three principal groups: American citizens of Spanish ancestry, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Americans, and exiled political figures in the United States who fought for Latin American independence from Spain. The presence of these Spanish speakers transformed the American cultural landscape at a times when the United States was defining its own cultural and national identity in response to its rapid continental and hemi...
What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addr... more What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addresses how formal poetry may give form to loss and memory in the age of AIDS by structuring an exchange between the literary institutions that privilege poetry as a representational medium and the inability of language adequately to account for and remember loss. Campo’s What the Body Told haunts modernism’s legacy by construing it as the corpus delicti, literally the body of the crime, where “crime” is conceived as the insufficiency of modernist aesthetic agencies to give evidence of the “truth” about the body.1 Campo’s ghostly demarcations of the corpus delicti, through a search for keener sounds, are established in his implicit dialogue with modernism in general and with Wallace Stevens in particular
In this article I will read Before Night Falls as Arenas\u27 queer version of Cuban literary hist... more In this article I will read Before Night Falls as Arenas\u27 queer version of Cuban literary history and his relation to it. Against the commonplace assertions that demand that Before Night Falls be primarily understood, if not exclusively, as an invective against Fidel Castro or, in the other extreme, as an ars moriendi and AIDS testimonial from a sexual dissident, I wish to revisit this text on the twentieth anniversary of its publication to underscore a missed reading that can help situate how Arenas, one of the most transgressive writers theorized in this collection as the Generation of \u2772, might also be its most conservative in his attachments to the very modernist aesthetic agencies eschewed by so many of his generational contemporaries.5 This is not to ignore, of course, the most obvious and sometimes illuminating readings of Before Night Falls that have fallen on either end of the political continuum, or somewhere in between, but rather as an opportunity to revisit Arena...
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