tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post8196384000372727411..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: PostnationalJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-58080842077662054642013-03-25T23:25:34.235-05:002013-03-25T23:25:34.235-05:00Great. I'd love to meet you if my panel is acc...Great. I'd love to meet you if my panel is accepted for the MLA. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-33693870351193022742013-03-25T18:49:20.994-05:002013-03-25T18:49:20.994-05:00Thanks, Jonathan! I do read, and I recommend your ...Thanks, Jonathan! I do read, and I recommend your blog to my grad students too, as a model of reflective scholarship. You give such great insights into what it means to be an active and engaged scholar. I've been rereading Read's work recently for my current project, and my impression is that he's a Brit writing from the US, but I might be wrong about that. Either way, it's a Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850468894471492891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-72535990923795743032013-03-25T12:30:52.583-05:002013-03-25T12:30:52.583-05:00Thanks for commenting, Kirsty. I have been a reade...Thanks for commenting, Kirsty. I have been a reader and admirer of your scholarship for quite a while, but had no idea you read my blog. :) I do know those books Spain Beyond Spain and Ideologies of Hispanism. I was thinking of Malcolm Read and a few others who have developed a critique of Hispanism from the UK, but you are certainly right that it comes from the US as well. <br /><br />I likedJonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-87723559962878157022013-03-25T11:07:54.213-05:002013-03-25T11:07:54.213-05:00Hi Jonathan,
I've subscribed to your blog for...Hi Jonathan, <br />I've subscribed to your blog for a long time and very much enjoy following your projects as they develop. You just about gave me a heart attack when this post popped up in my RSS feed. Thank you for taking the time to look up 'Reading Iberia' and for your kind words about my essay. The points you raise are exactly the questions we/I wrestled with at the time, and Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850468894471492891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-43378826573287853382013-03-25T09:16:44.162-05:002013-03-25T09:16:44.162-05:00Maybe we take it too much for granted -- realizing...Maybe we take it too much for granted -- realizing it is there and taking this into account but not giving it all the weight it seems to feel itself to feel?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-88304917190980899372013-03-25T09:10:53.644-05:002013-03-25T09:10:53.644-05:00Well yes, that's true. I am writing from the I...Well yes, that's true. I am writing from the Iberian perspective here as a peninsularist. Mexico alone has 100,000,000 people. Spain though, I would argue, has influence out of proportion to its population because of its publishing industry and the colonial legacy, and because of Latin American exiles living there or having lived there. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-7045354331824216132013-03-25T09:05:02.109-05:002013-03-25T09:05:02.109-05:00More:
"A third area of pressure is from Lati...More:<br /><br />"A third area of pressure is from Latin America, which is also part of the field but exposes the field's internalized colonialism."<br /><br />This is the part of this post I found funny because I think of Spain as a margin -- it is just one of the Spanish speaking countries, one of the larger ones, but I don't think of it as more central (I think of Lat Am as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-16938543847669147442013-03-22T09:01:57.910-05:002013-03-22T09:01:57.910-05:00You will get a copy, Vance, but not as a condition...You will get a copy, Vance, but not as a condition of being acknowledged. I have to acknowledge more people than I will have books for, with about 50 names in the acknowledgments. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-6716802545410294302013-03-21T20:10:29.399-05:002013-03-21T20:10:29.399-05:00I am wondering about the French thing. It makes me...I am wondering about the French thing. It makes me realize I am out of date in French. I will have to reread Barthes on Lanson which I have not seen since I was an undergraduate and favored Lanson. <br /><br />Francophone studies seems to be about inclusiveness as opposed to English po-co which questions Englishness. But the Chamoiseau et al Eloge de la creolité is a type of critique of it and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-91524706122085307542013-03-21T16:16:42.986-05:002013-03-21T16:16:42.986-05:00Thanks, Jonathan. As a condition of being acknowle...Thanks, Jonathan. As a condition of being acknowledged, though, would you send me a copy?<br /><br />I remember my father (like me an engineer by training) referring to the doctrine of essences reducing to differences as a bit of Chinese philosophy. (Perhaps he got that from his own father, an economist with interests in Chinese history - and Pound.)Vance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-79495530108056992392013-03-21T10:13:21.556-05:002013-03-21T10:13:21.556-05:00There needs to be a critique of Francophone Studie...There needs to be a critique of Francophone Studies which I am convinced is often a colonialist enterprise masquerading as its opposite. <br /><br />Why the critique of Hispanism comes from UK, well, it may have to do with how they do it there, for one thing, and it may have to do with their location. Spanish is the second national language of US and being in Spanish in US is a lot more like Leslie B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10020364290777579994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-29494603965677454222013-03-21T09:57:35.046-05:002013-03-21T09:57:35.046-05:00Roland Barthes does a critique of Frenchism in his...Roland Barthes does a critique of Frenchism in his attack on positivist research derived from Lanson. Barthes remains pretty much with the French canon, though. The critique of Englishism comes in the guise of postcolonial theory, I would guess. <br /><br />Maybe you can help me figure out why a lot of the critique of Hispanism comes out of the UK, and seems targeted only at its internal Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-90998228593227552632013-03-21T09:50:38.877-05:002013-03-21T09:50:38.877-05:00Is there a critique of Frenchism, Germanistik, etc...Is there a critique of Frenchism, Germanistik, etc., Englishism? How are these done?Leslie B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10020364290777579994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-24905904030191770322013-03-21T09:40:13.188-05:002013-03-21T09:40:13.188-05:00Yes, I've thought about that, in fact. As in ...Yes, I've thought about that, in fact. As in Saussure's theory (and Derrida's), things only mean something because of their difference from other things. Value comes only from negativity. That is the conclusion I draw in the MLA talk I finished yesterday. You must be a mind reader. You've earned a spot in my acknoleggments, if you weren't already there. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-35476252367564625302013-03-21T09:34:26.579-05:002013-03-21T09:34:26.579-05:00While I'm enjoying reading your working out of...While I'm enjoying reading your working out of these ideas, I think it's worth stepping back to see this as another instance of the "structuralist" insight that everything is what it is by virtue of distinctions from other things. And the boundaries depend on which distinctions are in play -- something that's very obviously fluid in this field. If you haven't already Vance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.com