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SUMMARY:Jarchar\, or the Art of Crossing in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo
DESCRIPTION:Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/chd4NGozQ7SRYZGIjGws9A \nCharlie Geyer (Ph.D.\, Vanderbilt University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He specializes in the comparative study of Latin American and US Latinx literatures and cultures\, with a focus on Border Studies and the aesthetics and politics of bordering in a hemispheric context. His current book manuscript\, titled Disturbing Beauty: Border Crossing in Latin American and Latinx Imaginaries\, examines border construction and marginality through the framework of abjection\, and explores the utopian political imaginaries that are mobilized through the aesthetic act of locating beauty within abject spaces and bodies. His publications can be found in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos\, Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana\, The Comparatist\, CENTRO: Journal for the Center of Puerto Rican Studies\, and the Afro-Hispanic Review. \nAbstract: \nIn this talk\, I examine Yuri Herrera’s novel “Señales que precederán al fin del mundo” to explore the dual role of aesthetics in 1) conceptualizing the US/Mexico border and 2) imagining its remaking. Departing from the anthropological work of Jason de León\, I contend that the border between Mexico and the United States is both a sublime object and a scene of unthinkable abject violence\, and I argue that the border-crossing voyage of Makina—the protagonist of Señales—from Mexico to the US may also be read as a journey into the sublime and the abject. The tension between these two aesthetic modes of reading the border reaches its peak at the novel’s end\, in which Makina’s “final destination” remains indeterminate\, and the reader is confronted with either: 1) the death of the protagonist (the abject annihilation shared by many of the undocumented people who cross the border) or 2) the sublime possibility of rebirth and regeneration. This duality is also represented in Herrera’s neologism “jarchar\,” a term which appears throughout the novel and that refers to a bicultural art form born in another border space: the medieval jarchas of the Iberian Peninsula. Engaging with authors and theorists of Latinx diasporas such as Gloria Anzaldúa and Miguel Algarín\, I argue that “Señales” functions as a contemporary jarcha: a work whose form itself bears the traces of the violent colonial history that produced the US-Mexico Borderlands\, and which simultaneously articulates the possibility of rebirth—of a new subjectivity and a new border politics that could spring forth from the colonial wound that is the US-Mexico border.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/jarchar-or-the-art-of-crossing-in-yuri-herreras-senales-que-precederan-al-fin-del-mundo/
LOCATION:Lydeen Library\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:"Voces de la diáspora venezolana: José Rafael Perozo"
DESCRIPTION:Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/YIcoCq72Q6OxB6KRkDOvyA \n\nAlejandro Castro tiene un doctorado en Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Nueva York. También es Licenciado en Artes por la Universidad Central de Venezuela y Magíster en Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad Simón Bolívar. Ha sido profesor tanto de la Escuela de Artes\, como de la Escuela de Letras de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. En los Estados Unidos ha sido instructor de español y cultura latinoamericana en la Universidad de Nueva York y en Williams College. En 2019 coeditó el volumen Deborah Castillo: Radical Disobedience para HemiPress. Ha publicado diversos trabajos académicos sobre arte y cultura visual latina\, psicoanálisis y literatura venezolana\, caribeña y brasileña. Su investigación ha recibido los premios: NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award (2024)\, Penfield Fellowship (2022)\, NYU Migration Network Award (2021) y Alpine Fellowship (2018). Como poeta\, Castro es autor de los libros: Parasitarias (2020)\, El lejano oeste (2013)\, galardonado con el Premio al Libro del Año 2014\, otorgado por la Asociación de Libreros Venezolanos\, y No es por vicio ni por fornicio. Uranismo y otras parafilias (2011)\, que obtuvo el premio del Concurso para Autores Inéditos organizado por Monte Ávila Editores. Su poesía ha sido traducida al inglés y al italiano y su trabajo de no ficción ha sido publicado en el suplemento literario de El Nacional\, así como en diversos medios digitales.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/voces-de-la-diaspora-venezolana-jose-rafael-perozo/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
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SUMMARY:“Política e identidad maya mam en el siglo XXI: Periodismo comunitario y redes sociales"
DESCRIPTION:Glendy Agustin es una investigadora\, activista y periodista comunitaria maya mam radicada en Comitancillo (San Marcos)\, en el occidente de Guatemala. Ha realizado múltiples investigaciones centradas en las tradiciones\, la medicina\, la espiritualidad\, la vestimenta y la gastronomía de su comunidad maya mam. Asimismo\, ha participado como activista en proyectos de rescate de la memoria histórica de los pueblos mayas y en defensa de los derechos humanos. Actualmente trabaja como intérprete y traductora apoyando a migrantes indígenas; también es creadora de contenidos para redes sociales en idioma maya mam\, enfocándose en la defensa de la tierra y la cultura mam. En su charla\, Glendy Agustin reflexionará sobre algunos de los retos políticos y culturales a los que se enfrentan las comunidades mam en el siglo XXI\, poniendo el énfasis en el rol que el periodismo comunitario y las redes sociales desempeñan en la defensa de las identidades indígenas\, la madre tierra y la democracia.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/politica-e-identidad-mayamam-en-el-siglo-xxi-periodismo-comunitario-y-redes-sociales/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:news,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Attend: A Conversation with filmmaker Rodrigo García
DESCRIPTION:Born in Colombia and raised in Mexico City\, Rodrigo García is a celebrated award-winning director\, producer and writer. A consistent figure in independent film over the last 20 years\, Rodrigo has directed the multiple Academy Award®-nominated film\, Albert Nobbs\, starring Glenn Close\, Mother and Child\, starring Annette Bening\, Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson\, Apple TV+’s Raymond & Ray\, starring Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor\, Nine Lives\, and most recently Netflix’s Familia\, starring Daniel Giménez Cacho and Maribel Verdú. He has also worked on numerous television shows. He will converse with Maarten van Delden\, Chair of UCLA’s Department of Spanish & Portuguese\, about his work in the film and television industry\, his relationship with his father\, Gabriel García Márquez\, the recent Netflix series based on One Hundred Years of Solitude\, and other topics.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/attend-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-rodrigo-garcia/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
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