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{"title":"Interpreting the Experiences of the African Diaspora in the Americas","authors":"Philip Howard","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121414316","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":"William Faulkner's Ibero-American Novel Project: The Politics of Translation and the Cold War","authors":"Deborah Cohn","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3187","url":null,"abstract":"Faulkner’s presence in Spanish American literature has been felt both directly and indirectly over the years. Much has been written about his impact on the work of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, among others, since he was first read by Spanish American authors in the 1930s. Much less has been written about Faulkner’s efforts to influence the course of Latin American literature, or about the geopolitical context in which these interventions took place. This essay will begin by presenting an overview of the Ibero-American Novel Project that he set up in 1961 at the University of Virginia, and its origins. It will examine the Project’s goals and mechanisms, as well as assessing the extent to which these were influenced by contemporary Cold War politics. Finally, I will look to the contemporary literary context—the early years of the so-called “Boom,” when Spanish American literature hit the international mainstream—for possible explanations of the Project’s failure to accomplish its goals. In 1950, when Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize, he initially refused to travel to Stockholm to pick up the award. The U.S. ambassador to Sweden sent an urgent cable to John Foster Dulles expressing his concern at the situation; ultimately, Muna Lee, southern poet and State Department official, was recruited to convince Faulkner to go to Stockholm and thus avoid international embarrassment for the U.S. (Blotner 1347-1348). The result was, of course, a great success, and from this moment until his death, Faulkner was persuaded numerous times by","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134195175","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":"Does Latin America Have a Common History","authors":"M. Eakin","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3179","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly forty years ago Lewis Hanke edited a volume titled Do the Americas Have a Common History? This book of essays sought to revive discussion of Herbert Eugene Bolton’s call for the writing of a “history of the Americas” in his 1932 presidential address to the American Historical Association.2 In his writing and his teaching over a half-century, Bolton promoted an approach that sees all of the Americas as part of a common set of historical processes.3 Although few historians have chosen to follow Bolton’s entreaty, and most historians of the Americas probably do not believe that we should try to write a history of all the Americas, Bolton’s controversial essay does force us to think about the commonalities (and dissimilarities) in the colonization, conquest, and development of all the Americas. I would like to pose a similar question that compels us to think hard about an enormous part of the Americas that we do generally assume to have a common history. I want to pose the question: Does Latin American have a common history? And, if it does, what exactly is that common history? I want us to take a hard look at Latin American history and rethink","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123365609","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":"American Genesis as Doctrine","authors":"G. Brotherston","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122644785","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":"(Dis) locating the I of the Yo in Julia Álvarez's Yo and Mario Vargas Llosa's La fiesta del Chivo","authors":"W. Luis","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3183","url":null,"abstract":"Latina/Latino literature offers a continual dislocation of time, space, and perspective, fostered by the Hispanic and U.S. cultures they represent. A study of Latina/Latino works also helps to analyze other literatures written outside of a writer’s country of origin about transnational or global topics. These are textual concerns external to the writer’s national sphere, where other cultures interact and play a fundamental role in dismantling the work’s complexity. Such an approach is necessary given the increased numbers of exiles and immigrants, who, for economic and political reasons, have been dislocated from their country of origin and have been forced to reside abroad. In Julia Alvarez’s “Homecoming,” the poetic voice returns to the Dominican Republic to attend her cousin’s wedding to a “burnt face Minnesotan.” The poetic voice travels to a familiar environment, one that she knew as a child. However she observes it from a different perspective, not as a Dominican but as one who is closer to the culture of her adopted country. The time spent in the United States has caused the poetic voice to distance herself from the Dominican culture, and view it as the other. In essence, her new positionality resembles more closely the one assumed by anthropologists who study native societies, but rely on their own culture to understand and contextualize the one under observation. “Homecoming” is about a return to a familiar past, but it is also about the two cultures the poetic voice embraces, the original one, of her early childhood, and the adopted one, of her present Vermont surroundings. In the poem, the cultures are represented in binary terms:","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114206492","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":"Inter-American Studies as an Emerging Field: The Future of a Discipline","authors":"Earl E. Fitz","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3184","url":null,"abstract":"Inter-American Studies is an exciting and fast developing new field, one that has the potential to revolutionize not only how we think about the Americas (including their relationships with Europe1 and Africa and their pre-Columbian worlds) but about the various disciplines — from literature to economics, from politics to law, and from anthropology to music — that link them together. Although we must credit historians like Herbert E. Bolton with having charted the original conceptual framework for this undertaking early in the twentieth century, and though we have seen interest in the Inter-American project wax and wane through the years, we are now living in a time when, for a variety of reasons, interest in Inter-American relations suddenly looms larger and more urgent than it ever has before. Concerned with a wide range of issues and agencies, such as NAFTA, popular music, literature, and law, the Americas have become, in the early years of the twenty-first century, a deeply interconnected site of tremendous energy and potential. And of conflict. However, as an emergent (and therefore disruptive) intellectual discipline, Inter-American Studies must also be considered part of the larger process of “globalization” that, like the arrival of the banana company train in Garcia Marquez’s Cien anos de soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude], is causing so much upheaval and consternation in so many places. Major players in this vast international game, the Americas are taking note of each other as never before, and the Inter-American paradigm (understood as involving both Francophone and Anglophone Canada, the United States, Spanish America, Brazil and the Caribbean) offers an excellent, though by no means foolproof, method of ensuring that this difficult process of rediscovery and reconsideration proceeds with fairness and accuracy. This is our challenge. But nowhere is the pressure of change being felt as acutely, perhaps, as in the closely related fields of American Studies and American literature, mainstream academic areas involving vast numbers of students and where","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131111547","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":"Rethinking the Americas, Rethinking African American Studies","authors":"Lucius T. Outlaw","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116002153","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":"Strategic Identities and Subversive Narratives: On Being Maya in a Globalized World","authors":"E. Fischer","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3188","url":null,"abstract":"N/A Author Biography Edward F. Fischer, Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies at Vanderbilt University. Earned his BA from the University of Alabama Birmingham in 1989, his MA from Tulane University in 1995, and his PhD from Tulane in 1996. Has published widely on Maya culture, globalization, political economy including the following books: Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala, co edited with R. McKenna Brown, (University of Texas Press, 1996), Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice (University of Texas Press, 2001), and Tecpan Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Local and Global Contexts (Westview Press, 2002) with Carol Hendrickson.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127735907","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":"Modernization, Feminism, and Delmira Agustini","authors":"C. Jrade","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V1I0.3186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133621020","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":"Avatares de la suciedad colonial. la Ciudad de México en los siglos XVII y XVIII","authors":"Hugo García","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3936","url":null,"abstract":"Los disímiles discursos que fueran producidos en la Nueva España durante los siglos XVII y XVIII certifican la complejidad de los procesos de colonización y formación de la sociedad del primer virreinato del imperio español. Cada uno de ellos muestra un acercamiento particular a la realidad novohispana; muchos de ellos, según su medio particular de expresión y su designio, se acercará de manera diferente a un sistema de valores coloniales asimilados a una escala interpretativa que oscila entre la limpieza y la suciedad. Esta última parece ser una constante de particular valor en medio de los desencuentros culturales que se daban en Nueva España a partir de la convivencia forzada de tres etnias representantes de igual número de continentes. A la simple mención de la suciedad, automáticamente tendemos a pensar en materia física, que puede invertir el estado de la limpieza o, al menos, alterarlo con su huella. ¿Pero es la suciedad únicamente física? Si solamente de materia física se tratara, ya de por sí estaríamos en una geografía y un tiempo histórico privilegiados pues México fue, por mucho tiempo, azotada por inundaciones cuyas aguas, luego de crecidas no tenían vía de escape que no fuera la evaporación. Las inundaciones –frecuentes por demás y muy serias– alteraban por completo la vida citadina; ellas traían desarreglos de tipo higiénico, y hasta la muerte. No obstante, más que este tipo de suciedad, nos interesa destacar la existencia de tendencias discursivas que asocian elementos sociales, políticos, étnicos y raciales con la suciedad, mientras una contraparte se mantiene en campos contrarios, de la limpieza. Entre estas dos categorías existe, además, la creación textual de un área de contacto, la zona de la polución donde la suciedad se muestra amenazante, o ya ha vencido en sus intenciones de mancillar la pureza con la que se identifican ciertos estamentos sociales, etnias y hasta espacios citadinos de la capital virreinal. Acerca de los límites temporales —una última puntualización—, la integración de la suciedad en diferentes discursos no aparece en la Ciudad de México en el siglo XVII como tampoco es un fenómeno que finalice por acto de ningún prodigio en el siglo XVIII. En este trabajo no intentamos recorrer el devenir total de la suciedad en todos los momentos históricos de la ciudad; estos son los primeros pasos en los intentos de develar la importancia de la suciedad como una noción prevalente en diferentes discursos producidos durante los siglos de dominación colonial en América. Partiremos en este periplo de la suciedad de la relación que Mary Douglas explica que existe entre suciedad, orden y clasificación para poder articular el uso de la noción de suciedad en la capital novohispana.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121283072","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}