Critical Standpoints in Post-Soviet Cuban Literature: Ena Lucía Portela

This is a slightly modified version of a short talk I gave on March 1, 2010, at the Center for Latin American Studies in Berkeley, California.

Introduction
This paper is an early attempt to show how Ena Lucía Portela’s El pájaro: pincel y tinta china contains formal features grounded in a kind of postmodern subjectivity that begins [...]

Labor’s Relation to Capital: Notes on Christopher Arthur

After much delay, I’ve read Christopher Arthur’s The New Dialectic and Marx’s Capital. I have a lot of good things to say about the book, and I consider it, along with Moishe Postone’s Time, Labor, and Social Domination, to be among the best supplementary readings to Marx’s Capital and Grundrisse. For pedagogical purposes, it might [...]

"El cisne": Delmira Agustini

El texto que sigue fue parte de una respuesta a una de las preguntas de mi examen de candidatura, en la que se me pidió identificar y analizar el poema “El cisne” de Delmira Agustini, situándolo dentro de la tradición literaria de su época. La falta de referencias exactas remite a las circunstancias del examen.