Un círculo de deseo: los romances nacionales en América Latina

La autora muestra las diversas complicidades que se tejen entre el género literario novelístico, el nacionalismo y los procesos de construcción nacional en los países de América Latina. ¿Por qué las novelas nacionales y promovidas por el Estado para nacioThe author shows the various complicities of the literary genre of romance with nationalism and processes of nation building in Latin America, in fact national novels are usually romantic novels. Trough an innovative analysis based on the work of Foucaul

The Rub Against the Proud Grain of Chile’s History

Romance Languages and Literature

Afterword: Human Rights and Responsibilities

Romance Languages and Literature

Bored and spoiling for a flight: capabilities lost and found in lockdown

Human beings are dynamic; our innate faculties beg to engage in activities. To achieve fullness and human dignity, people “convert” personal capabilities into active “functionings,” Amartya Sen explains. This means that staying still is not a normal state. It can feel like punishment. Forced inactivity will generate resentment, resistance, and boredom that can fester until pent-up energy explodes violently, or implodes in depression. Boredom defaults on capabilities and resources in many cases. In other cases, stillness is a gift. It can stimulate the imagination to fill in emptiness with memories and new explorations. Either boredom builds toward doing damage, or it releases energy to think and to create. What people don't do is stay put, mentally or physically. Authorities-including police, judges, teachers, parents –should take this dynamic human condition into account and reconsider the effects of conventional command and control policies. Then they can choose between violence and creativity as alternative outlets for the energy that boredom generates. Short of facing up to human dynamism, decision-making may continue to favor strong-arm tactics, which trigger the violence and pain that policing is meant to mitigate. Is it surprising that apparently peaceful peoplebecome enraged in lockdown conditions? Do adults wonder why students drop-out of school and suffer escalating rates of depression and suicide? Boredom is certainly not the only cause for these disastrous effects, but to ignore it risks remaining complicit with processes that perpetuate personal and collective dysfunctions. Complicity with harmful practices will miss opportunities to channel frustrated energy toward developing human capabilities. Authorities are responsible for promoting peaceful development. We are all responsible.[2] Normally, people stay busy with routine activities. We work, play, attend to family and to friends. Particular activities have even become our public badges of identity, as is evident in surnames (Cooper, Baker, Taylor, Farmer, etc.) that trace back to work that ancestors answered to. Lockdown during COVID-19 meant that many otherwise occupied people had few outlets for energy. Those who knew how to meditate managed to assuage anxiety through contemplation and the pursuit of ideal emptiness

Bi-Musical Moves In Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Little Joe Hernández

Meditating on works of fiction such as Crosthwaite’s El gran preténder (1992) and Laviera’s AmeRican (1985), this article proposes bi-musicality (Hood 1960) as both a link between sociolinguistics and literary aesthetics and as a corrective challenge to the positivism of ethnic, demographic, and geographic labeling. From Dell Hymes to Norma Mendoza-Denton in applied linguistics and from Friedrich Schiller to Emmanuel Levinas in aesthetics, Sommer and Wald consider what they call the “pride of interstitial place” in multilingual, crossborder writing and music. The article takes cues from sociolinguistics, dance, and musicology, as it advances a wager about the embodied movements of multilingual poetics.Romance Languages and Literature

Making a Difference: The Cartonera Comes to Mexico.

African and African American StudiesRomance Languages and Literature

Welcome Back: The Humanities as Civic Education

African and African American StudiesRomance Languages and Literature

Come Back Aesthetics

African and African American StudiesRomance Languages and Literature

Cortez en las Cortes. El valor ético-jurídico de la traducción

La Ley de Intérpretes ante los Tribunales, que exigía a los tribunales estatales y municipales garantizar las traducciones cuando estas fueren necesarias, transformó el espíritu de la justicia respecto de las minorías linguísticas en los Estados Unidos. El film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, relata la historia verídica de un crimen basado justamente en la ausencia de tales traductores en un proceso judicial. A partir de este escenario, el escrito reflexiona sobre el valor de las lenguas y la diversidad étnico-cultural en su relación con la ética, la justicia y los derechos de las personas