Category: Volume 6

Brian Whitener University of Michigan Volume 6, 2014 Paul Amar’s The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism (Duke, 2013) has received (well-deserved) attention for its interventions into political science discussions of security, into queer studies discussions of sexuality, and within the general academic humanities for its arguments concerning a transition from neoliberalism to...

Justin ReadUniversity at Buffalo Volume 6, 2014 Los debates corrientes en la teoría política latinoamericana—por lo menos desde los trabajos tempranos de Ernesto Laclau en los 1970s—se han centrado en la problemática de la hegemonía, un enfoque indudablemente exacerbado por la hegemonía efímera del Consenso Washington de los 1990s. El decolonialismo, por ejemplo, ha buscado vías de...

Charles HatfieldThe University of Texas at Dallas Volume 6, 2014 In his 1987 book entitled México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization, the anthropologist Guillermo Bonfil Batalla complained that the Mexican middle class had no “desire to remember” (57) the “precolonial world” (3). By suggesting that the middle class—and other members of what he referred to as the “imaginary...

Julen EtxabeUniversity of Helsinki Volume 6, 2014 “Lo que dura, lo fundan los poetas” Hölderlin[1] Que toda constitución requiere de poesía puede resultar una proposición subversiva, como pudo comprobar la Agencia Europea de Derechos Fundamentales cuando propuso crear una versión en forma de poema épico de la Carta Europea de Derechos Fundamentales para hacerla más accesible...

Jorge Álvarez YágüezInvestigador independiente, Doctor por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Volume 6, 2014 Salta a la vista la inundación de nuevas denominaciones políticas o términos aspirantes a constituirse en categorías o conceptos definidores de lo político o de lo aparentemente tal. Términos como infrapolítica, impolítica, arquipolítica, parapolítica, metapolítica, ultrapolítica, postpolítica, postsoberanía, posthegemonía and so on. Que...

Adam Joseph ShellhorseTemple University Volume 6, 2014 Sifting through Clarice Lispector’s numerous notes, fragments, chronicles, and interviews one finds an entire archive of anti-literary statements. “Literature”, Lispector states, “is a detestable word — it’s outside the act of writing” [“é fora do ato de escrever”] (Outros escritos 165).[1] Literature, for Lispector, becomes reactionary as an institution with its...

Julio ArizaDartmouth College Volume 6, 2014 Estar o no estar contigo es la medida de mi tiempo. (Jorge Luis Borges, “El amenazado.”) Abandonan a alguien / El país se derrumba. La simultaneidad y la aparente desproporción entre estos eventos son las condiciones dramáticas (por escénicas y por drásticas) que caracterizan a las novelas del abandono amoroso...

Robert WellsUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga Volume 6, 2014 Introduction As it was with most Latin American avant-garde artists, Macedonio Fernández produced from the periphery. Yet, as critics often note, Macedonio strategically situated himself on the periphery of this periphery.[1] Ricardo Piglia nevertheless asserts that Macedonio’s best-known work, Museo de la Novela de la Eterna (Primera novela buena),...

Claire SolomonOberlin College Volume 6, 2014 Roberto Arlt holds a paradoxical role in Argentine national literature. He is regarded as one of the great authors of the twentieth century, yet criticism clucks over his spelling mistakes and questionable grammar. He is beloved, worshipped and pitied all at the same time. Though in the last decade of...

Adam Joseph ShellhorseTemple University Volume 6, 2014 Posthegemonic reflection on the Latin American literary today is contextualized by an exodus from historically over-determined interpretative frames regarding the emancipatory stakes of the literary. Indeed, since the subalternist turn in Latin American Studies in the early 1990s, the linkage between the literary and its social projection—tied to a...