{"title":"La rebelde con una causa activista: Una nueva perspectiva de la migrante centroamericana Y la solidaridad chicana en The River Flows North de Graciela Limón","authors":"Adrienne Erazo","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:La narrativa contemporánea sobre la migración de Latinoamérica a los Estados Unidos es motivada por un impulso de justicia social. Interactúa con frecuencia con otras respuestas sociales a la violencia en contra de la mujer en ambos lados de la frontera entre México y los EE.UU., explorando el impacto de la violencia de género en tendencias migratorias y criticando patrones continuos de discriminación y violencia de género en ámbitos tanto culturales como políticos a través de Latinoamérica. Este artículo analiza un ejemplo clave de tal narrativa, The River Flows North (2009) de la novelista chicana Graciela Limón, enfocándose en el personaje salvadoreño Menda Fuentes para considerar cómo este texto representa el género y la marginación como un método de crítico social. Arguye que la novela saca a la luz sistemas de violencia que rodean el cuerpo femenino y migrante, así abogando por un acercamiento más comprensivo a la migración. Asimismo, el artículo orienta la novela en relación con la ficción chicana de solidaridad producida en los años 1980s y 90s, examinando la manera en que el texto continúa algunas tendencias de este género mientras que simultáneamente toma cierta distancia del canon literario para problematizar la representación popular de la migrante centroamericana. La evolución y trayectoria de Menda Fuentes como personaje funciona, por consiguiente, como un modelo revisado de activismo social, que toma en cuenta los desafíos enfrentados por [mujeres] inmigrantes e interactúa con una nueva ola de la cultura transnacional de solidaridad en torno a la migración centroamericana.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"170 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48501414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala by J.T. Way (review)","authors":"Gaye Ozpinar","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"237 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46027066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico by Vanessa Freije (review)","authors":"Stephen D. Morris","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"234 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43969745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Other” Sor Juana: Racialized Subjectivities, Languages, and Cultures in the Ensaladilla to the Villancico Series in Honor of San Pedro Nolasco (1677)","authors":"Carlos Macías Prieto","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In “The ‘Mexican’ Sor Juana” (2007), Stephanie Merrim presents a very compelling approach to Sor Juana’s writings in which the reader traces the “Mexican” texts the nun used as the basis for her writings, a collection of texts Merrim identifies as “the Mexican archive” (78). Even though I find this approach to reading Sor Juana’s texts very appealing, my main contention with this approach is not considering the non-written sources Sor Juana uses and references in her writings and forgetting that Sor Juana wrote for a diverse audience, not only the learned and erudite Spanish and Creole community. As scholars such as Yolanda Martínez San Miguel and Alfred Arteaga have pointed out, Sor Juana also wrote for the “common people,” that is, for the multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural society of late 17th Century Spanish America. Hence, I propose to expand Merrim’s notion of Sor Juana’s “Mexican archive” to include the multiple dialects, languages, cultures, and subjectivities of marginalized groups. Sor Juana’s ensaladillas to various villancicos illustrates this “living archive” the nun uses in her writings while making a critique of Spanish American society. In this article I focus on the ensaladilla which closes the series of villancicos in honor of San Pedro Nolasco, founder of the Order of Mercy. Thus, the ensaladillas and villancicos Sor Juana wrote for public performances reveal an “Other” Sor Juana, a Sor Juana who writes for the common people and presents a critical vision of the dialects, languages, cultures and subjectivities of a diverse multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-cultural society.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"109 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48854177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abuelo-palenque: estética, pedagogía, y lucha política en las enseñanzas del Abuelo Zenón/Abuelo-Palenque: aesthetics, pedagogy, and political struggle in the teachings of Abuelo Zenón","authors":"Javier Eduardo Pabón","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For fifty years, Afro Ecuadorian intellectual and activist Juan García Salazar (1948–2017) documented the collective wisdom inscribed in the oral tradition of African descent peoples in Ecuador. This archive emerges in the region’s intellectual realm as a political intervention that seeks to vindicate afro Ecuadorian historical demands while protecting and transmitting ancestral knowledge. It is an expression of the guardians of tradition and a community that defies the Ecuadorian state’s whitemestizo hegemony.In Abuelo Zenón, Juan Garcia’s compiles the Afro Pacific region’s collective wisdom through a dialogical character in his writings. In Zenón’s reflections, it is possible to read the arch in the work of a collection of materials developed by García, the political proposal of the Gran Comarca of northern Esmeraldas as a strategy for protecting the ancestral land of afro descendants in the region, and the pedagogic efforts to promote the sense of identity within the communities.This paper engages in a dialogue with the aesthetic proposals inscribed in the teachings of Abuelo Zenón. Doing so exemplifies the different stages of a historical process that has adopted different vehicles to document, protect, and strategically share knowledge with concrete political objectives.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"108 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48924077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Whitewash of Blackface in Fernando Pérez’s José Martí: El ojo del Canario (2010)","authors":"J. Batista","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Fernando Pérez’s José Martí: El ojo del canario (2010) is a foray into Martí’s childhood and adolescence on the big screen that perpetuates the hagiographic narrative of José Martí as white savior for what is ostensibly a self-fashioned mestizo national ideal. To that end, Fernando Pérez minimizes Afro-Cuban agency and offers a whitewashed version of the revolutionary milieu in which Martí came of age. Through the analysis of black representation, historical revisionism, and symbolism, I show how the story of Martí and colonial Cuba envisioned by Fernando Pérez enshrines the notion that the burgeoning nationalism and radical politics of mid-nineteenth-century Cuba were a whites-only enterprise, a move that turns the film into a Cuban minstrel show for the new millennium.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"24 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41660763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El establecimiento del Consulado General del Imperio Otomano en Buenos Aires y el papel de la emigración, según los archivos otomanos, 1870–1910","authors":"Oğuzhan Yener","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:La emigración otomana hacia América se inició a partir de la década de 1860 y empezó a intensificarse después de mediados de 1880. Hacia finales de dicha década en los documentos otomanos se habla, por la primera vez, de la necesidad de establecer un consulado otomano en Buenos Aires. Cierto es que esta necesidad surgió como consecuencia natural de la creciente emigración hacia América del Sur. Dicha emigración se observó y reportó por las misiones diplomáticas del Imperio Otomano en algunas ciudades europeas. Así es, el cónsul otomano en Barcelona fue el primer oficial otomano que propuso el establecimiento de un consulado otomano en Argentina, debido al notable aumento de la emigración por vía de este puerto hacia allí. A pesar del hecho de que se estableció el primer contacto y la primera iniciativa de firmar un tratado consular entre ambos países en 1870, hubo que esperar hasta 1910 para ver concluido el proceso. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar, desde el punto de vista otomano, la historia del proceso del establecimiento del Consulado General del Imperio Otomano en Buenos Aires y las causas de la larga demora para implementarlo. Para ello, se va a hacer referencia, mayoritariamente, a las fuentes primarias otomanas, pues, en su casi totalidad no se han consultado hasta ahora.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"121 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49173512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Omar Torrijos and the Sandinista Revolution","authors":"Jonathan A. C. Brown","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The author examines the little-known story of the intervention of Panama’s dictator Omar Torrijos in the internal affairs of Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution against the Somoza Regime in 1978–1979. Not only did Torrijos send Panamanian volunteers to fight in Nicaragua, but he also organized the supply of arms to Sandinista rebels. However, the Panamanian dictator failed in his larger effort. He wanted to organize an alliance of Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Cuba to help overthrow Somoza and, at the same time, establish a moderate reformist government in Nicaragua as an example to other Central American nations. He also attempted to involve President Jimmy Carter in his scheme.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"25 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48649414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Franz Boas’s trip to Puerto Rico (1915) and the Contemporary Boriken Nation","authors":"R. Ocasio","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper highlights key elements of Franz Boas’s field trip to Puerto Rico in 1915 as part of the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. An outstanding, multi-disciplinary scientific field expedition organized by the New York Academy of Sciences and hosted by the Puerto Rican government, the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico provided Boas with the means to perform groundbreaking anthropological research on the island. Anthropometric documentation allowed him to explore Taíno indigenous physical traits, which he referred to as “Indian blood.” Boas followed in the footsteps of an earlier U.S. American anthropologist, Jessie Fewkes, who performed anthropological and ethnocultural fieldwork in Puerto Rico immediately after the Spanish American War of 1898. Today Boas’s anthropological field research data is essentially regarded as an afterthought mainly connected to his mapping of an indigenous area that he called “the ancient village of Capá.” Known today as Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Caguana, it is the largest surviving Taíno ceremonial and ballpark center in the Caribbean. As I conclude, although Boas seemingly ignored the socio-cultural importance of “Indian blood,” contemporary Puerto Ricans who self-identify as Taínos recall the Boasian concept of Amerindian ancestry as the basis for a rather popular and highly politicized Taíno aboriginal nation movement.Do you know what people mean when they speak of “Our New Possessions”? What are they? Where are they? Why are men, in the streets, in the shops, everywhere, talking about them? Why are the newspapers full of articles in regard to them? Why are lawmakers at the capital devoting so much time and attention to them? (George 5)","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"81 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47482506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Crider, J. Batista, Jonathan A. C. Brown, Gabrielle Esparza, Peter J. Ferdinando, R. Ocasio, Javier Eduardo Pabón, Carlos Macías Prieto, Oğuzhan Yener
{"title":"Contributors Page","authors":"G. Crider, J. Batista, Jonathan A. C. Brown, Gabrielle Esparza, Peter J. Ferdinando, R. Ocasio, Javier Eduardo Pabón, Carlos Macías Prieto, Oğuzhan Yener","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Fernando Pérez’s José Martí: El ojo del canario (2010) is a foray into Martí’s childhood and adolescence on the big screen that perpetuates the hagiographic narrative of José Martí as white savior for what is ostensibly a self-fashioned mestizo national ideal. To that end, Fernando Pérez minimizes Afro-Cuban agency and offers a whitewashed version of the revolutionary milieu in which Martí came of age. Through the analysis of black representation, historical revisionism, and symbolism, I show how the story of Martí and colonial Cuba envisioned by Fernando Pérez enshrines the notion that the burgeoning nationalism and radical politics of mid-nineteenth-century Cuba were a whites-only enterprise, a move that turns the film into a Cuban minstrel show for the new millennium.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"108 - 109 - 120 - 121 - 140 - 24 - 25 - 45 - 46 - 5 - 6 - 64 - 65 - 7 - 8 - 80 - 81 - 9 - 94 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46435629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}