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Papers by Ivette Romero

Caribbean quarterly, 2015

Nadia V. Celis Salgado, La rebeli?n de las ni?as: El Caribe y la "conciencia corporal".... more Nadia V. Celis Salgado, La rebeli?n de las ni?as: El Caribe y la "conciencia corporal". Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert Verlag, 2015. 354 pp.REVIEWED BY IVETTE ROMEROThe title of Nadia V. Celis Salgado's La rebelion de las ninas: El Caribe y la "conciencia corporal" may translate as "The Girls' Rebellion: The Caribbean and 'Corporeal Consciousness'" (or bodily consciousness), and the book focuses on precisely that: consciousness of the centrality of the body and awareness of how the body - particularly the prepubescent and adolescent body - is represented in the literature of Latin America and the Caribbean.But there is more to this title. For scholars of Spanish and Latin American literatures, La rebelion de las ninas, "the girls' rebellion", resonates instantly with the title of an early nineteenth-century play, Leandro Fernandez de Moratin's 1805 El si de las ninas, most commonly translated as "The ...

Il Tolomeo, Dec 21, 2018

One of the important things that we who share in the human condition do when we write, read, inte... more One of the important things that we who share in the human condition do when we write, read, interpret, and discuss written works, is relate to death; the death of the unruliness of Life. We are referring here to that counter, that unforeseen, that chaos, that deconstructive constant, that je ne sais quoi that perpetually undoes all the certainties and structures and truths we hold dear in our attempt to master and colonize our existence. Let us call this the aesthetic-real understanding of death that, at its best, is ethical in character. But-and this is crux of our argument-Caribbean literature, as it is also expressed in the musical production from the region, reminds us that this general aesthetic-real of relating to death is inextricably bound up with the specific historical-real of non-Europeans, and those who Europeans deemed lesser creatures, being murdered by overwork, guns, disease or poverty as a result of western greed and anti-human humanism. Again, to repeat, in this essay, we explore this and its summoning of an alternative conception of being human via the literature housed in Caribbean music: those written, sung, performed, and sometimes, danceable texts. Summary 1 Introduction.-2 The Aesthetic-Real and Historical-Real in the Caribbean.-3 Caribbean Literature and the Question of the Human.-4 Human Identity in Caribbean Music.

Caribbean quarterly, 2015

Nadia V. Celis Salgado, La rebeli?n de las ni?as: El Caribe y la "conciencia corporal".... more Nadia V. Celis Salgado, La rebeli?n de las ni?as: El Caribe y la "conciencia corporal". Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert Verlag, 2015. 354 pp.REVIEWED BY IVETTE ROMEROThe title of Nadia V. Celis Salgado's La rebelion de las ninas: El Caribe y la "conciencia corporal" may translate as "The Girls' Rebellion: The Caribbean and 'Corporeal Consciousness'" (or bodily consciousness), and the book focuses on precisely that: consciousness of the centrality of the body and awareness of how the body - particularly the prepubescent and adolescent body - is represented in the literature of Latin America and the Caribbean.But there is more to this title. For scholars of Spanish and Latin American literatures, La rebelion de las ninas, "the girls' rebellion", resonates instantly with the title of an early nineteenth-century play, Leandro Fernandez de Moratin's 1805 El si de las ninas, most commonly translated as "The ...

Il Tolomeo, Dec 21, 2018

One of the important things that we who share in the human condition do when we write, read, inte... more One of the important things that we who share in the human condition do when we write, read, interpret, and discuss written works, is relate to death; the death of the unruliness of Life. We are referring here to that counter, that unforeseen, that chaos, that deconstructive constant, that je ne sais quoi that perpetually undoes all the certainties and structures and truths we hold dear in our attempt to master and colonize our existence. Let us call this the aesthetic-real understanding of death that, at its best, is ethical in character. But-and this is crux of our argument-Caribbean literature, as it is also expressed in the musical production from the region, reminds us that this general aesthetic-real of relating to death is inextricably bound up with the specific historical-real of non-Europeans, and those who Europeans deemed lesser creatures, being murdered by overwork, guns, disease or poverty as a result of western greed and anti-human humanism. Again, to repeat, in this essay, we explore this and its summoning of an alternative conception of being human via the literature housed in Caribbean music: those written, sung, performed, and sometimes, danceable texts. Summary 1 Introduction.-2 The Aesthetic-Real and Historical-Real in the Caribbean.-3 Caribbean Literature and the Question of the Human.-4 Human Identity in Caribbean Music.