Abstract:This essay discusses the complex socio-cultural and political milieus in which the Books of the Chilam Balam were compiled and the reasons for the appearance of the Historia de la doncella Teodor in these post-conquest manuscript miscellanies. It also argues that –given the modified content, structure, and language –the Maya versions of the maiden Teodor narrative are manifestations of the intercultural exchange between the Yucatec Maya and Spanish peoples and textual spaces in which the dynamics of power are complicated. Overall, this paper explains the Maya versions of the Historia de la doncella Teodor as materializations of the Spanish colonial project of "reducción" and describes the maiden as a subversive subject who obscures the meaning of language and challenges figures of authority.
{"title":"Reducción and Subjectivity in the Books of the Chilam Balam: The Case of the Colonial-American Maiden Teodor","authors":"José I. Lara","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay discusses the complex socio-cultural and political milieus in which the Books of the Chilam Balam were compiled and the reasons for the appearance of the Historia de la doncella Teodor in these post-conquest manuscript miscellanies. It also argues that –given the modified content, structure, and language –the Maya versions of the maiden Teodor narrative are manifestations of the intercultural exchange between the Yucatec Maya and Spanish peoples and textual spaces in which the dynamics of power are complicated. Overall, this paper explains the Maya versions of the Historia de la doncella Teodor as materializations of the Spanish colonial project of \"reducción\" and describes the maiden as a subversive subject who obscures the meaning of language and challenges figures of authority.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"256 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41640727","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":"Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America by Tanya Harmer (review)","authors":"Á. Vergara","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"357 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46060807","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":"Women Made Visible. Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda (review)","authors":"Tania Islas Weinstein","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"241 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45788499","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":"Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide ed. by Elisabeth Jay Friedman (review)","authors":"Juliana Restrepo Sanín","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"243 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44030336","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":"Nuestra América. Utopía y Persistencia de una Familia Judía by Claudio Lomnitz (review)","authors":"Nicolás Allen","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"246 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47498797","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}
Abstract:My article links Henri Lefebvre's theory of social space to Neil Brenner's insights into the global. By focusing on Claudia Piñeiro's novel The Widows of Thursdays (2005), I reflect on some of the transformations taking place in Buenos Aires, as the very wealthy and the emergent middle-class retreat into private luxury-living housing quarters, known as 'country clubs.' First, I link the global city of neoliberalism with institutions, urban plans, and discourses to address the former's role in the creation of social space. Second, an attentive examination of space challenges its assumed transparency to outline its concrete material, mental, and lived components. Third, by recognizing the role of rhythm and affect in our lived experience, I consider the place of the body's affective core in the construction and reconstruction of social space within neoliberalism. I then demonstrate that the country club's ties to the global city of neoliberalism mediates between political economy, the creation and reorganization of social space, and the body's affective states. In fact, as a satellite-district of the global city, the country club kits out a representational space in which social space, affect, and the body 'enable collective life to live' (Lefebvre).
{"title":"\"Country Club\" and Global City in Claudia Piñeiro's The Widows of Thursdays","authors":"Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:My article links Henri Lefebvre's theory of social space to Neil Brenner's insights into the global. By focusing on Claudia Piñeiro's novel The Widows of Thursdays (2005), I reflect on some of the transformations taking place in Buenos Aires, as the very wealthy and the emergent middle-class retreat into private luxury-living housing quarters, known as 'country clubs.' First, I link the global city of neoliberalism with institutions, urban plans, and discourses to address the former's role in the creation of social space. Second, an attentive examination of space challenges its assumed transparency to outline its concrete material, mental, and lived components. Third, by recognizing the role of rhythm and affect in our lived experience, I consider the place of the body's affective core in the construction and reconstruction of social space within neoliberalism. I then demonstrate that the country club's ties to the global city of neoliberalism mediates between political economy, the creation and reorganization of social space, and the body's affective states. In fact, as a satellite-district of the global city, the country club kits out a representational space in which social space, affect, and the body 'enable collective life to live' (Lefebvre).","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"147 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46541509","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}
Abstract:On 11 May 1810, the American merchant brig Dorothea departed Philadelphia for Veracruz on a mission that had little to do with trade. Instead, its sponsors, Francisco Caballero Sarmiento, a Philadelphia-based merchant, and Luis de Onís, the Spanish ambassador to the United States, intended the voyage to resolve a financial emergency that threatened both men on a professional, patriotic, and personal level. Suffering from a chronic lack of funding that undermined his diplomatic operations at a time of profound political upheaval for Spain, Onís had accepted a significant loan from Sarmiento in order to carry out his official duties. Unable to repay the merchant, the ambassador used the Dorothea to send Felipe Fatio, the legation secretary, to Mexico City to confirm viceregal support for the ad hoc partnership and secure a stable source of funding for the embassy. This paper relates the origins and outcome of the voyage of the Dorothea. While the story has many layers, this account focuses on the relationship between imperial officials at a time when the loyalist struggle against the French had reached its nadir and the independence movements in Spanish America had just begun. As a result, it raises important questions about the effectiveness of colonial institutions at a critical time in the history of the empire. While Spanish patriots most feared Napoleon, this mission suggests that the colonial bureaucracy was often its own worst enemy.
{"title":"Mission Impossible: The 1810 Voyage of the Dorothea and the Price of Patriotism in the Spanish Atlantic","authors":"T. Hawkins","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On 11 May 1810, the American merchant brig Dorothea departed Philadelphia for Veracruz on a mission that had little to do with trade. Instead, its sponsors, Francisco Caballero Sarmiento, a Philadelphia-based merchant, and Luis de Onís, the Spanish ambassador to the United States, intended the voyage to resolve a financial emergency that threatened both men on a professional, patriotic, and personal level. Suffering from a chronic lack of funding that undermined his diplomatic operations at a time of profound political upheaval for Spain, Onís had accepted a significant loan from Sarmiento in order to carry out his official duties. Unable to repay the merchant, the ambassador used the Dorothea to send Felipe Fatio, the legation secretary, to Mexico City to confirm viceregal support for the ad hoc partnership and secure a stable source of funding for the embassy. This paper relates the origins and outcome of the voyage of the Dorothea. While the story has many layers, this account focuses on the relationship between imperial officials at a time when the loyalist struggle against the French had reached its nadir and the independence movements in Spanish America had just begun. As a result, it raises important questions about the effectiveness of colonial institutions at a critical time in the history of the empire. While Spanish patriots most feared Napoleon, this mission suggests that the colonial bureaucracy was often its own worst enemy.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"189 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46109563","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}
Abstract:This article analyses the mythical figure of Antigone in light of the forced disappearances of thousands of people in Argentina from 1976–1983 and in Mexico from 2006 to the present. Both Una sola muerte numerosa (1997) by Argentinian Nora Strejilevich, and Antígona González (2012) by Mexico's Sara Uribe explore the capacity of collective memory to resist violence. Following theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I use the term "rhizomatic violence" to describe forced disappearances in Argentina and Mexico as well as the imprints they leave in memory. The rewriting of Antigone in these two experimental literary texts record memories, but also create them, becoming the "symbol of the sign" in the Derridean concepts of "Temporalization" and the "Trace." In these configurations, memories as time are fragmented, juxtaposed, and linked to each other to make sense of the traumatic experiences of forced disappearances, allowing us to re-imagine a collective future.
{"title":"Dos Antígonas y la huella: Desaparición forzada y reconstrucción del sujeto en Una sola muerte numerosa de Nora Strejilevich y Antígona González de Sara Uribe","authors":"E. Villalobos","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyses the mythical figure of Antigone in light of the forced disappearances of thousands of people in Argentina from 1976–1983 and in Mexico from 2006 to the present. Both Una sola muerte numerosa (1997) by Argentinian Nora Strejilevich, and Antígona González (2012) by Mexico's Sara Uribe explore the capacity of collective memory to resist violence. Following theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I use the term \"rhizomatic violence\" to describe forced disappearances in Argentina and Mexico as well as the imprints they leave in memory. The rewriting of Antigone in these two experimental literary texts record memories, but also create them, becoming the \"symbol of the sign\" in the Derridean concepts of \"Temporalization\" and the \"Trace.\" In these configurations, memories as time are fragmented, juxtaposed, and linked to each other to make sense of the traumatic experiences of forced disappearances, allowing us to re-imagine a collective future.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"217 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42162831","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 Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America ed. by Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez (review)","authors":"Nicole L. Pacino","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"248 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44344541","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}
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