week 8 lecture (video)
This week I was captured by the Ruben Dario poem, A Roosevelt. I found it to be a beautiful and passionate description of Latin America as well as a scathing rejection of those who try to change or control it. … Continue reading
This week I was captured by the Ruben Dario poem, A Roosevelt. I found it to be a beautiful and passionate description of Latin America as well as a scathing rejection of those who try to change or control it. … Continue reading
Un pueblo sin piernas pero que camina. The metaphors continue. There is something captivating about Latin American tendencies to mesh art with politics, aestheticism with power. Martí’s eloquence places him firmly in this tradition. Chávez is decidedly not a poet. Yet his 2004 speech pursues the same themes as those of Martí and Bolívar in his demand for independence for Latin American nations (or nations of “the South”). It would be important, here, to characterize “independence” and how it has been conceived of over time. It is hard not being…read more
Hey everyone, hope everyone’s alive and kicking.I don’t think I have too much to talk about this week. I feel like I was given an insight into the perspective of a few figures, involved in Latin American politics, which I will say is a nice change of p…
Hey everyone, hope everyone’s alive and kicking.I don’t think I have too much to talk about this week. I feel like I was given an insight into the perspective of a few figures, involved in Latin American politics, which I will say is a nice change of p…
Hey everyone, hope everyone’s alive and kicking.I don’t think I have too much to talk about this week. I feel like I was given an insight into the perspective of a few figures, involved in Latin American politics, which I will say is a nice change of p…
Hey everyone, hope everyone’s alive and kicking.I don’t think I have too much to talk about this week. I feel like I was given an insight into the perspective of a few figures, involved in Latin American politics, which I will say is a nice change of p…
