{"title":"Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History by Lamonte Aidoo (review)","authors":"Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte","doi":"10.1353/RHM.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RHM.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"74 1","pages":"127 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/RHM.2021.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43612287","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":"En la cima más alta de Nueva York: Federico de Onís, frontera y mercado","authors":"Fernando Degiovanni","doi":"10.1353/RHM.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RHM.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:\"En la cima más alta de Manhattan\". Borders, the Market, and Onís's Hispanism In one of the several articles he devoted to discuss his concept of Hispanism, Federico de Onís represented Columbia as strategic location from which to rebuilt what he called \"a Spain without Spain\". Located between Riverside Drive and Broadway, the university would be the place to push forward the liberal political and cultural agenda brought to an end by the outbreak of the Civil War; furthermore, it would allow to develop new transnational economic alliances between Spain, Latin America and the United States. In this article, I will focus on this and other locations that Onís conceptualized as \"border\" sites, paying particular attention to the consequences that such a concept had for the constitution of Hispanism as a discipline. Key concept in Onís, the border is in his work the privileged location where Spain constituted itself as a transhistorical entity, particularly in times of imperial expansionism through warfare and commerce. A kind of parallel version of the Manifest Destiny doctrine, Onís's formulation is inextricably linked to the emergence of Pan Americanism, and like it, unthinkable outside the new place of Latin America in the post-1898 global networks.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"74 1","pages":"37 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/RHM.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44351906","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":"A Menippean Defense of Spain’s American Conquest: Linguistic Imperialism in Juan Pablo Forner’s Exequias de la lengua castellana","authors":"C. O’Hagan","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Among eighteenth-century scholars, Juan Pablo Forner (1756-1797) is widely regarded as Spain’s most fervent apologist. Critical attention, however, has tended to focus almost exclusively on his Oración apologética por la España y su mérito literario (1786), which he wrote in direct response to Masson de Morvillier’s entry on Spain for the Encylopédie méthodique (1782), and has largely overlooked a key digression within his understudied Menippean satire, Exequias de la lengua española, which defends Spain’s colonial record against European criticism. This article attempts to shed light on the Menippean techniques Forner uses to counter the disparaging portrait of Spanish colonial practices, and argues that the menippea enables him to produce one of the eighteenth century’s most insultingly aggressive, rancorous, and ludic defenses of Spanish colonialism. It examines how Forner uses the freedom of invention typical of Menippean satire to rehearse and settle the Valladolid dispute of 1550–1551 between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de Las Casas, and proposes that Forner’s vision of a benevolent linguistic imperialism, which functions primarily as a pretext for assuaging Spain’s colonial guilt, has its origins in Carlos III’s linguistic policy, which imposed Castilian as the sole language of empire in 1770.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"189 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47016130","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":"Cómo escribir el presente: figuras de lo contemporáneo en la narrativa de César Aira","authors":"Nicolás Campisi","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay studies César Aira’s works through the notion of the contemporary. Following Giorgio Agamben, Theodore Martin, Julio Premat, and Lauren Berlant, I posit the contemporary to be a critical concept that provides strategies for historicizing the conditions of the ongoing present. In order to frame the discussion of the contemporary in Aira’s texts, I create a vocabulary of three aesthetic figures that lay bare his literary project: the sketch, the brief, and the precarious. The notion of the sketch allows Aira to register the contemporary before it becomes a historical event, whereas the description of his oeuvre as an accumulation of short forms gives the impression of a seemingly endless encyclopedic project. Lastly, I contend that in Aira’s works the contemporary does not come into view through the representation of historical events but through the development of new genres that track the disorienting historicity of crisis. Thus, I argue that Aira’s aesthetic procedure, which he insistently describes as a “flight forward,” serves as a device for registering the contemporary.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"143 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43630515","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 Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women’s Circuit, 1876–1910 by Ronald Briggs (review)","authors":"A. Peluffo","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"239 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46355920","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 Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics by Enrique García (review)","authors":"A. Muñoz","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"246 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46426065","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":"Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito by Susan V. Webster (review)","authors":"Kris E. Lane","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"254 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43860312","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":"Clemente Palma, Carlos Toro y el paso del cometa Halley en 1910: catástrofe, palingenesia y alegoría","authors":"Juan Herrero-Senés","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article compares two Latin American science fiction stories written around the year 1910: “El día trágico” by Clemente Palma and “El dieciocho de mayo” by Carlos Toro. Both use the real event of the passage of Halley’s Comet near the Earth in May 1910 to produce urban apocalyptic fictions that predict deleterious consequences for humanity. After contextualizing the stories historically, I highlight how they contribute to a transnational literary tradition of cosmic disasters, rely on discursive strategies typical of the narratives of extinction and “last survivor” stories, and incorporate a palingenetic perspective where some of the features of a future society are envisioned. The combination of these traits with a reading of the comet as a metaphor for social change results in hybrid works that can be interpreted as allegorical commentaries of the modern process of secularization. The stories offer us a glimpse into the individual anxieties of the authors facing modernization and ultimately show their inability to imagine the future.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"176 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49471501","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":"Nuevos acercamientos a la participación de las mujeres en los circuitos letrados","authors":"L. Skinner","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"227 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45358080","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":"Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura by Leslie J. Harkema (review)","authors":"J. Krauel","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2020.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2020.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"73 1","pages":"248 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/rhm.2020.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41763086","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}