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Vol. 8 No. 2 January 30, 2008
The three articles and one book review which comprise this issue study such topics as poverty and inequality in the post-NAFTA years, the fiction of Perla Suez, fiscal rules in Brazil, and the alliance between Argentina and the United States.
Contributors hail from Florida Atlantic University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.
We invite comments as well as new submissions via e-mail to editors-derlas@udel.edu
Vol. 5 No. 1 August 15, 2004
Vol. 5 No. 1 includes four articles, an interview with Rigoberta Menchú,
and two book reviews, all dealing with the issue of identity and the effect of
national and racial parameters upon its formation. Given this emphasis, the DeRLAS
editors concluded that a more lengthy identification of the authors themselves
would interest our readers and consequently we offer the following biographical
portraits.
Florencia Ruth Carlino earned her doctorate at McGill University in
2003 and now is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In her native
Argentina she taught Spanish as a second language and served as International
Consultant in the program assessment of Spanish Language Arts for the Argentine
Ministry of Education/International Development Bank as well as in projects
of the Canadian Embassy in Argentina. She has edited and published the collection
of scholarly articles: Evaluación educacional: historia, problemas
y propuestas (Buenos Aires: Aique, 1999) and draws upon her knowledge of
the Argentine educational establishment to disclose many contradictions in
its agenda.
Paul Cohen is Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of English
at Texas State University. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, including
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities (1996-99) and a
Fulbright Fellowship for work in Ireland, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from
Rutgers University. In his article he relates Carlos Fuentes’ Terra Nostra to
numerous works in the European and American literary traditions.
Nicole Roberts is Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Liberal
Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She
introduces readers to several Caribbean poets and emphasizes the impact of
racial identity upon their work.
Marta R. Zabaleta is a political refugee, given asylum in England after
imprisonment in both Argentina and Chile. A senior lecturer and researcher,
now retired from Middlesex University, Marta continues her social activism,
insisting that readers recognize and protest the abuse of civil rights not
only in Latin America but in the world over. In her account she provides a
vivid description of how human memory functions in its assimilation of traumatic
experience, especially the physical and psychological torture inflicted by
government agents in Latin American dictatorships. Marta serves on the Editorial
Board of Revista del Cesla (Center of Latin American Studies, University of
Warsaw, Poland) and is the author of Feminine Stereotypes and Roles in Theory
and Practice in Argentina Before and After the First Lady Eva Perón (Lewiston,
N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).
Jayson Ty Gonzales Sae-Saue is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University
in the Modern Thought and Literature Program, where he works with David Palumbo-Liu
and Ramón Saldívar in ethnic third-world literary and cultural
studies. Supplying the background of his interview with Rigoberta Menchú,
Jayson refers readers to DeRLAS, Vol. 2, No. 2 where Jorge Rogachevsky and
David Stoll published articles about her.
Ana Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey is Visiting Assistant Professor
at Texas State University, San Marcos. Born and raised in Brazil, where she
earned a B.A. in English at the University of Brasilia, she received her M.A.
and her Ph.D. (1989) in Brazilian and Spanish-American literatures from Tulane
University. She has published a book of poetry, Poemas da vida meia (2002)
as well as several articles on modern Latin American writers, including Clarice
Lispector, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Antonio Callado, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina
Ocampo and Rubén Darío. This background and training serve her
well in her perceptive review of Peter M. Beattie’s The Human Tradition
in Modern Brazil.
América Martínez, founding editor of DeRLAS, is Assistant
Professor at the University of Delaware, where she teaches courses both in
Spanish language and literature and in world literature. Born and raised in
Puerto Rico, América frequently leads groups of students in Delaware’s
Study Abroad Programs, notably to Mérida, Mexico. She shares her extensive
knowledge of Mexican culture and history with readers in her appreciative review
of Aperture’s Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond: Photographs by Agustín
Víctor Casasola 1900-1940.
We invite comments as well as new submissions via e-mail to braham@udel.edu |
Vol. 4 No. 2 December 15, 2003
This number includes two articles and three book reviews. Dr. Hugo Hortiguera
of Griffith University, Australia, analyzes the influence of popular fictional
genres, such as the detective novel, upon Argentine journalism during the years
of Dr. Carlos S. Menem’s government. Dr. Evelyn D. Ravuri, professor of Geography
at Central Michigan University, assesses the impact of the creation of Ciudad
Guayana on immigration to and from Bolívar State, Venezuela between 1950
and 1990. In a review of two books by Carlos Altamirano and one by Altamirano
and Beatriz Sarlo, Flavia Fiorucci of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies,
University of Geneva, places these texts within the context of sociological
studies of Peronism. Vera Blinn Reber, Professor of History at Shippensburg University,
reviews Robert Scheina’s study of Latin American Wars between 1791 and 1899.
Mark Wasserman praises Jeffrey M. Pilcher for collecting well-written articles
by young scholars on the cutting edge of their disciplines and for publishing
them in The Human Tradition in Mexico (2003). Wasserman singles out the biographical
articles about women from colonial to modern times as being especially useful
for the new insights into Latin American history that their lives afford. Thus,
this present volume examines Latin America within a vast continental context
and within the most specific context of a single city.
We invite comments as well as new submissions via e-mail to jmcinnis@udel.edu or nbsanth@udel.edu. |
Vol. 4 No. 1 February 15, 2003
Now in our fourth year of publication, we invite you to take a look at our latest
number which includes articles on the problem of spousal and child abuse in Nuevo
León, México, the deconstruction of the hero in works by Juan Rulfo
and Carlos Fuentes, and a study of transculturation and acculturation in the “folletines
gauchescos de Eduardo Gutiérrez”. Book reviews include a look “Inside
the Cuban Revolution” by Julia E. Sweig, and translations of works by budding
Latinamerican authors Eduardo García Aguilar and Beatriz Escalante.
We invite comments as well as new submissions via e-mail to aml@udel.edu or nbsanth@udel.edu. |
Vol. 3 No. 1 February 15, 2002
We, the editors of DeRLAS, are proud to be entering our third year of publication
with an article from an up-and-coming economist from Costa Rica, Alexánder
Castro-Reyes. His article on the bankruptcy of the Banco Anglo Costarricense
is an important contribution to the theme, offering new lines of investigation.
Also included in this issue are two reviews of books dealing with important
contemporary themes. The first, Femenino plural: la locura, la enfermedad,
el cuerpo en las escritoras hispanoamericanas, presents themes that, until
recently, have been kept silent and not been the subject of literary investigation. The
second, Mexico Madness: Manifesto for a Disenchanted Generation, is
an essay, written in the form of a diary, that goes beyond the author’s observations
in Chiapas in December 1995, to present “a manifesto against the abuses of
global capitalism inspired by the very hopeful Zapatista uprising.”
We invite comments as well as new submissions via e-mail to aml@udel.edu or nbsanth@udel.edu. |
Vol. 2 No. 2 July 15, 2001
This latest issue of DeRLAS looks at three lives of great interest to Latinamericanists--Ignacio
Bizarro Ujpán (a pseudonym), Rigoberta Menchú and Eva Perón.
James D. Sexton and Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán have published a series of
books based on a diary that Ignacio has been keeping for the last twenty-nine
years at Sexton’s request. Those who have read Son of Tecún
Umán (1982), Campesino (1985) and Ignacio (1992) understand
the terrible insight and immediacy that Ignacio’s diary offers as it presents,
among other issues, the violence that pervades the daily lives of the Tzutuhil
Mayas of the mid-western highlands of Guatemala. We are proud to have
the opportunity to publish this paper which begins with a short history of
Sexton’s relationship with Ignacio, then gives us a more personal look at Ignacio’s
backgound, and finally identifies and discusses prominent themes in Ignacio’s
story.
Our second article is a critique by Jorge Rogachevsky of David Stoll’s scholarly
book Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans followed
by a response from Stoll and a rejoinder by Rogachevsky. We believe that
the controversy generated by Stoll’s book deserves further exploration of the
issues it presents. We would invite readers’ comments and would consider
publishing them in further issues should there be sufficient interest.
Our final article is a review of Feminine Stereotypes and Roles in Theory
and Practice in Argentina Before and After the First Lady Eva Perón,
by Marta Raquel Zabaleta, a very thorough and interesting look at the true
impact of the Peróns on women’s issues in Argentina.
We do not doubt that this issue will be of great interest to most. We
invite comments as well as new submissions via e-mail to aml@udel.edu or nbsanth@udel.edu. |
Vol. 1 No. 2 August 30, 2000
This second issue of the Delaware Review of Latin American Studies consists of
two articles of literary interest--one on anthropophagy and literary logophagy
in Argentina by Dr. Hugo Hortiguera, and a second on German influence in Latin
American Romanticism by Dr. Alfred Wedel--and an interview of Dr. Juan Carlos
Martínez, a geneticist at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez,
whose work in identifying the mitochondrial DNA of Puerto Ricans has served to
cast doubt on some traditional beliefs concerning the fate of the Amerindian
population of Puerto Rico.
We hope that these three works expand current knowledge in these subjects,
and we invite your comments on the journal and its contents. We also
invite Latin Americanists who work throughout the region to send us their work. We
look forward to your paticipation in this scholarly venture. |
Vol. 1 No. 1 December 15, 1999
We, at The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, welcome you to our new,
interdisciplinary on-line journal. As a refeered journal, it is dedicated
to publishing scholarly works on Latin America from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives. DeRLAS, as we are calling it, is the brainchild of two members
of the Latin American Studies faculty, Norman Schwartz, Anthropology, and América
Martínez, Foreign Languages and Literatures, both of whom are now serving
as co-editors. During the past several months, they have worked hard to
make this idea a reality. One of their most important tasks was to assemble
a Board of Editors, and I am pleased to report that they have assembled an impressive
group of scholars including:
Mitchell Seligson, University of Pittsburgh
Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University
Hortensia Morell, Temple University
James D. Sexton, Northern Arizona University
M. Tomás Gallareta-Negrón, INAH, Yucatan, Mexico
Julio Carrión, University of Delaware
Suzanne Austin Alchon, University of Delaware
The three articles included in this first issue all focus on the Maya area
of southern Mexico and northern Guatemala; but we invite Latin Americanists
who work throughout the region to send us their work. We look forward
to your participation in this scholarly venture. And we invite your comments
on the journal and its contents.
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