From Vision to Apocalypse: the Poetic Subject in Recent Mexican Poetry

Over the last two decades there have been significant changes in the poetic subject. After the colloquial realism of the fifties and sixties, in which the poetic subject acted as witness to his or her time or spoke as a collective subject, there has emerged, particularly in the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco, a poetry in which the subject assumes an impersonal voice. This poetry questions originality, privileging appropriation, parody and pastiche while becoming increasingly skeptical and apocalyptic

Travesías/Travesuras: Dis/connecting Cultural Imaginaries

Inspired in feminist and post-colonial theories, this article debates Chicano discursive practices seeking to understand the dialogue between Mexicans and Chicanos as critical positionings against U.S.-Mexican nation-state's exclusionary politics. Specifically, and from a historical narrative, it points to and problematizes the circulation of the Mexican "cultural imaginary”, and the function and influence that Mexican myths and symbols have had once they have crossed the border. Their resignification in Chicana writings is analyzed as constituting decolonizing feminist pratices

"Encuentros con Jesús Urzagasti."

Prof. Norma Klahn (Literature, UCSC) and Prof. Guillermo Delgado-P., transcribed, annotated, and edited an interview with the late Bolivian fiction writer, poet and journalist, Jesús Urzagasti (1941-2013), when he visited the CLRC and the Latin American Studies program at UCSC in April of 2003