Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 by blogmeridian2
I want to return to this image for a moment, which I posted on earlier, in light of a nudge I received from some reading I did last week.
From Sandra Messinger Cypess’ La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth, as part of a discussion of Rosario Castellanos’ essay, “Once Again Sor Juana”:
Veneration of [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 by blogmeridian2
Aurora and Clotilde Nancanou receive Joseph Frowenfeld. Illustration by Albert Herter from an 1899 edition of The Grandissimes. Image found here.
George Washington Cable’s most famous novel (1880) is sneaky with regard to its examination of Creole New Orleans in those years just prior to and just after the Louisiana Purchase: strident when the reader [...]
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Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2008 by blogmeridian2
Note: This is heading in the direction of a preface or introduction to the book project. The image below is its starting place, at any rate. Would reading this make you want to read more? Comments welcome and encouraged.
Detail from a panel of Diego Rivera’s mural at the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City. [...]
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