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(Please contact me if you need assistance obtaining this title!) This book is dedicated the the study of Paraguayan film, particularly those that represent a socio-politically charged perspective in a post-dictatorial era. In this work I... more
(Please contact me if you need assistance obtaining this title!) This book is dedicated the the study of Paraguayan film, particularly those that represent a socio-politically charged perspective in a post-dictatorial era. In this work I investigate the contemporary crisis of transition of power through the dynamics of race, class, gender and sexuality. Each chapter takes a film or films as its jumping off point, then zooms out to encompass elements of the national political, economic, social, and historical context. Here I attempt to analyze some of the most pressing social issues in Paraguay while reflecting on the power of cultural discourse through film.
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This article directly resulted from the teacher/researcher experience, describing new analyses resulting from subtitling a film for curriculum incorporation: Tango feroz, la leyenda de Tanguito (1993). Set in Argentina in the sixties and... more
This article directly resulted from the teacher/researcher experience, describing new analyses resulting from subtitling a film for curriculum incorporation: Tango feroz, la leyenda de Tanguito (1993). Set in Argentina in the sixties and loosely based on the life of José Alberto Iglesias Correa, also known as Tanguito, this film portrays an early exponent of rock nacional argentino. This article contrasts how the film has become known as a work that promotes women’s liberation, transgression of traditional race and class boundaries, and criticism of authoritarian neoliberal regimes, yet an analysis of the film’s dialogue and aesthetics reveals a double-register pregnant with ambiguity, in particular regarding the role of neoliberalism in Argentina’s national economy.
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This interview was published in the Vol. 18 2014 Issue of The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. In it I interview the featured artist for this issue: Hugo Cataldo Barudi, an artist and director working in Asunción, Paraguay.... more
This interview was published in the Vol. 18 2014 Issue of The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. In it I interview the featured artist for this issue: Hugo Cataldo Barudi, an artist and director working in Asunción, Paraguay. In this interview we talk about digital art, painting, drawing, his last feature film (Semana capital, 2010), his next feature film (La chiperita, 2015) and filmmaking in contemporary Paraguay.
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Divergencias. Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios. Volumen 6, número 2, invierno 2008 32 E scritores como Roland Barthes, Peter Brooks, Teresa de Lauretis, Susan Jef-fords y Joseph Boone, para nombrar sólo algunos, han basado... more
Divergencias. Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios. Volumen 6, número 2, invierno 2008 32 E scritores como Roland Barthes, Peter Brooks, Teresa de Lauretis, Susan Jef-fords y Joseph Boone, para nombrar sólo algunos, han basado trabajos sobre la función del padre en la literatura. Por ejemplo, en el artículo de Boone, "Cre-ation by the father's fi at: paternal narrative, sexual anxiety and the deauthorizing designs of Absalom, Absalom!" vemos cómo el padre representa autoridad total. Teniendo en cuenta la autoridad total de la fi gura del dictador y el infl ujo que las obras de Faulkner han tenido en la literatura latinoamericana, el análisis de Boone es un buen punto de partida. Basándome en el artículo anteriormente citado y en las teorías de performance de género de Judith Butler, analizo la relación padre/hija como una ruptura simbólica del poder hegemónico de la dictadura en dos novelas: La fi esta del chivo (2000) de Ma-rio Vargas Llosa y El recurso del m...
rent research focuses on the construction of national identity in contemporary Paraguayan film. As we continue to move into an era in which published scholarship is of ever-greater importance for those in the profession—and given the... more
rent research focuses on the construction of national identity in contemporary Paraguayan film. As we continue to move into an era in which published scholarship is of ever-greater importance for those in the profession—and given the constant reminders of the limitations placed upon academic publishing houses (cf. Bernard-Donals 173, Argersinger and Cornett 108)—journal editors necessarily confront a shifting landscape in which they must reassess their approach to the peer-review process. Make no mistake, we at the AfHCS believe that the val ued place afforded peer-reviewed journal publications can and should be maintained—as part of a scholarly conversation, as part of a valued disciplinary tradition and as a form of certi fication of quality work. Our end goal is not to reconfigure the base structure of peer-review in Hispanic studies—to wit: readers should expect here neither an engagement with the issues associated with "open'-review nor explicit support for nontraditional publication formats nor even non-anonymous review (see Fish "No Bias, No Merit," "Reply"; Skoblow; Harnad). Nor do we want to participate, here, in the ongoing (although perhaps lucid) critique of the discipline of Hispanic studies itself (one which nonetheless may be a contributing factor—see, for example, work by Faber; Resina). Instead, in this position paper, as editors of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies we reiterate the need for journal editors to play a more active role in the review process, for peer-reviewers to grapple more extensively with submissions, for journals to have an explicit editorial vision that may serve as a standard against which to make tough decisions, and for Benjamin Fraser's
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In this five page reaction paper I place the theoretical approaches of Lila Abu-Lughod, Afsaneh Najmabadi and Saba Mahmood into dialogue, arguing that the three together, read in the aforementioned order, offer a path for gradually—and... more
In this five page reaction paper I place the theoretical approaches of Lila Abu-Lughod, Afsaneh Najmabadi and Saba Mahmood into dialogue, arguing that the three together, read in the aforementioned order, offer a path for gradually—and finally with Mahmood, radically— problematizing U.S. dominant analytical frames used to theorize the Middle Eastern practice of covering.
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Worked on this piece as fixer, interpreter, editor and photographer for PRI.
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Worked on this piece as fixer, interpreter, translator, editor and photographer for PRI.
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Worked on this piece as fixer, interpreter, translator, editor and photographer for PRI.
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