El mundo será Tlon. Ciudadanía literaria caribeña y globalización: Edouard Glissant y Luis Rafael Sánchez

Draws on Jorge Luis Borges' metaphor of a Literary Planet (Tlön) in order to posit a Caribbean Literary citizenship that transcends the underpinnings of so called 'Global Literature'

Contribución del pensamiento amerindio a una cosmopolítica americana

Extractivism has reached its limits as an irreparable process of sacking nature. Amerindian animistic thought, especially that of the Amazon, postulates ontologies of collective vital activity that offer alternatives to the law of value and its corollaries of productivism and endless accumulation, consubstantial to moderncapitalist civilization

Caribe interior excéntrico: un asomo a un espacio wayuu

Wayuu indigenous literature from Colombia and Venezuela implies an alternative cosmography of the Caribbean that mends its insular delinking from continental indigenous cultures. Indigenous cultures and literatures help to conceive the Caribbean as a reticular space defined by relations more than by an area and its borders

Derrida y el pensamiento amazónico (La bestia y el soberano / el jaguar y el chamán)

This is a proposition to read the deconstruction of sovereignty in Jacques Derrida’s seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign, in the light of Amazonian thought, which suggests that what links sovereignty and animality is not necessarily their common externality vis-à-vis the law but the capacities shared by human and nonhuman beings that are not external to language or the political. South American shamanic texts articulate the isonomic relationship between the jaguar and the shaman as an expression of a cosmopolitics that conveys the mutual implication of sovereignty and freedom, human and nonhuman, life and nonlife, the law and its exteriority

La cosmopolítica, el animismo y el inmaterialismo de Graham Harman (Inmaterialsm)

Ensayo-reseña que reseña el libro de Graham Harman, Inmaterialism, y lo relaciona con la cosmopolícia y el animismo contemporáneo

Neonacionalismo y fatiga de identidad en Puerto Rico

ABSTRACT: The aim of this work is to analyze the neonationalist discourse in Puerto Rico. It shows the hegemonic politics of USA towards Puerto Rico. It argues how an anticolonial discourse has been replaced by an identity politics. The result is a tiredness nationalism which serves as a legitimating frame of subaltern relationships. KEY WORDS: Colonial power, identity politics, subaltern subject, hegemony, legitimacy

Potencia de comunidad en Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas

Analysisi of the idea of community in Roberto Arlt's double novel Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas. Draws on Jean-Luc Nancy's The Inoperative Community, and Georges Bataille

Paradiso como proyecto político

Rather than being apolitical, José Lezama's Paradiso conceives the political at another level, in an aesthetic realm of friendship and conviviality set up by writing. The posthumous second volume of Paradiso, Oppiano Licario, is brought into an analysis of the literary republic of friendship postulated as an alternative to the heroic nationalist politics of the Cuban Revolution

El doble del bárbaro: Joserramón Meléndes

This exegesis of the book Contraqelarre (2010) by Puerto Rican poet Joserramón Melendes argues that his writing challenges the aesthetic sovereignty of Western Modernism precisely by 'doubling' it and thus inoculating it with his difference as a marginal, 'uncivilized' Caribbean writer