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Middle Atlantic Review of Latin America Studies, 2022
Ten years after the publication of his award-winning Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry an... more Ten years after the publication of his award-winning Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America 1816-1929, Juan Pablo Dabove brings the study of bandit representation in elite spaces into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with Bandit Narratives in Latin America: From Villa to Chávez. The title of Dabove's excellent newer work forgoes reference to a strict time frame and instead names two individuals: Villa, who could not escape the stigma of the label, and Chávez, who embraced the legacy of banditry as an act of political legitimization.
MARLAS: Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2020
Reseña. The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in the Global Economies of Culture, de Alann... more Reseña. The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in the Global Economies of Culture, de Alanna Cant (2019), arroja luz sobre los efectos de la globalización al adentrar en el caso específico del mercado de tallados de madera en San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca. En particular, el libro desarrolla la idea de la “economía de cultura” para explicar cómo la compleja relación entre arte, estética, cultura, autenticidad, autoría y consumo se sopesa en la consideración del valor de las tallas, tanto al nivel local como al nivel nacional y global. La autora cruza fronteras interdisciplinarias al explorar tales temas como la estética y la belleza, el valor, los derechos de autor, el aura benjaminiana de una pieza de arte, las dinámicas relaciones de una comunidad y las interacciones comerciales que tienen los artesanos con consumidores, otros artesanos, conservadores que representan museos y hasta con oficiales de organizaciones gubernamentales.
Review. The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in the Global Economies of Culture, by Alanna Cant (2019), sheds light on the effects of globalization by examining the specific case of the market for wooden carvings in San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca. In particular, the book develops the idea of “economies of culture” to explain how the complex relationship between art, aesthetics, culture, authenticity, authorship, and consumption is weighed when considering the value of the carvings at the local level, as well as nationally and globally. The author crosses interdisciplinary lines by exploring topics such as aesthetics and beauty, value, authorial copyrights, Benjamin’s aura of a work of art, the dynamic relations within a community, and artisans’ commercial interactions with consumers, other artisans, conservators who represent museums, and even government officials.
MARLAS: Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2018
Winner of the 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award, Porous City: A Cultural... more Winner of the 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award, Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro offers a fascinating intervention into a number of fields that, ultimately, Carvalho weaves together to form a nuanced reading of the former Brazilian capital as a “porous city,” a clever and convenient near homophone of the concept of porosity the author develops throughout. The book is a highly recommended read for those with a moderate to strong foundation in Brazilian history and culture, though its chapters would serve as useful supplementary material for the graduate classroom. The author does a fine job of moving at an appropriate pace, and his conclusions never seem hastily formulated or exaggerated. Most of all, the considerable research that has gone into the work is commendable and offers plenty of jumping off points for those who would seek to build upon Carvalho’s reading of porosity.
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Letras Hispanas, 2023
Si bien los textos de la picaresca retratan varios aspectos de su protagonista anti- héroe, Manoe... more Si bien los textos de la picaresca retratan varios aspectos de su protagonista anti- héroe, Manoel Coelho Rebello en El pícaro hablador, obra ampliamente citada pero poco comentada, escoge solamente una característica del pícaro para formar la base de su breve entremés: la locuacidad. El noveno de la colección de veinticuatro entremeses, Musa entre- tenida de varios entremeses (1658) constituye una adaptación del entremés Los habladores, a veces atribuido a Cervantes. Este trabajo analiza los motivos comerciales de la nueva ver- sión de esta pieza, además de los cambios realizados en el proceso de adaptación. Se arguye que, en El pícaro hablador, Coelho Rebello reescribe Los habladores como un entremés claramente picaresco para valerse de la popularidad tanto de este género dramático como del novelesco picaresco. Mediante una comparación de las dos obras, se examina cómo Coelho Rebello concibe el personaje del pícaro al destilarlo a una sola característica que fuera capaz de representarse en forma entremesil, lo que Gonzalo Sobejano llama “locuacidad crítica”, ejemplificada en la verbosidad alógica y la versificación del personaje titular.
While texts of the Spanish picaresque portray their antiheroic protagonist with a
number of different traits, Manoel Coelho Rebello in El pícaro hablador, a work that is widely cited but not widely studied, chooses only one characteristic of the pícaro to form the basis of his brief entremés: his loquacity. The ninth in a collection of twenty-four entreme- ses titled Musa entretenida de varios entremeses (1658), this dramatic piece is an adaptation of Los habladores, an entremés sometimes attributed to Cervantes. This article will consider the commercial motives for the new version of the work, in addition to the changes that were carried out in the process of adapting the play. It is argued that, in El pícaro hablador, Coelho Rebello rewrites Los habladores as a clearly picaresque entremés in order to leverage the popularity of both the entremés genre itself and the picaresque novel. By comparing both works, this article analyzes how Coelho Rebello embodies the character of the pícaro under one single trait on the entremés stage, a feature that Gonzalo Sobejano calls “critical loquacity,” exemplified by the main character’s alogical verbosity and poetic versification.
Middle Atlantic Review of Latin America Studies, 2022
Ten years after the publication of his award-winning Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry an... more Ten years after the publication of his award-winning Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America 1816-1929, Juan Pablo Dabove brings the study of bandit representation in elite spaces into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with Bandit Narratives in Latin America: From Villa to Chávez. The title of Dabove's excellent newer work forgoes reference to a strict time frame and instead names two individuals: Villa, who could not escape the stigma of the label, and Chávez, who embraced the legacy of banditry as an act of political legitimization.
MARLAS: Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2020
Reseña. The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in the Global Economies of Culture, de Alann... more Reseña. The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in the Global Economies of Culture, de Alanna Cant (2019), arroja luz sobre los efectos de la globalización al adentrar en el caso específico del mercado de tallados de madera en San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca. En particular, el libro desarrolla la idea de la “economía de cultura” para explicar cómo la compleja relación entre arte, estética, cultura, autenticidad, autoría y consumo se sopesa en la consideración del valor de las tallas, tanto al nivel local como al nivel nacional y global. La autora cruza fronteras interdisciplinarias al explorar tales temas como la estética y la belleza, el valor, los derechos de autor, el aura benjaminiana de una pieza de arte, las dinámicas relaciones de una comunidad y las interacciones comerciales que tienen los artesanos con consumidores, otros artesanos, conservadores que representan museos y hasta con oficiales de organizaciones gubernamentales.
Review. The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in the Global Economies of Culture, by Alanna Cant (2019), sheds light on the effects of globalization by examining the specific case of the market for wooden carvings in San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca. In particular, the book develops the idea of “economies of culture” to explain how the complex relationship between art, aesthetics, culture, authenticity, authorship, and consumption is weighed when considering the value of the carvings at the local level, as well as nationally and globally. The author crosses interdisciplinary lines by exploring topics such as aesthetics and beauty, value, authorial copyrights, Benjamin’s aura of a work of art, the dynamic relations within a community, and artisans’ commercial interactions with consumers, other artisans, conservators who represent museums, and even government officials.
MARLAS: Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2018
Winner of the 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award, Porous City: A Cultural... more Winner of the 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award, Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro offers a fascinating intervention into a number of fields that, ultimately, Carvalho weaves together to form a nuanced reading of the former Brazilian capital as a “porous city,” a clever and convenient near homophone of the concept of porosity the author develops throughout. The book is a highly recommended read for those with a moderate to strong foundation in Brazilian history and culture, though its chapters would serve as useful supplementary material for the graduate classroom. The author does a fine job of moving at an appropriate pace, and his conclusions never seem hastily formulated or exaggerated. Most of all, the considerable research that has gone into the work is commendable and offers plenty of jumping off points for those who would seek to build upon Carvalho’s reading of porosity.
Letras Hispanas, 2023
Si bien los textos de la picaresca retratan varios aspectos de su protagonista anti- héroe, Manoe... more Si bien los textos de la picaresca retratan varios aspectos de su protagonista anti- héroe, Manoel Coelho Rebello en El pícaro hablador, obra ampliamente citada pero poco comentada, escoge solamente una característica del pícaro para formar la base de su breve entremés: la locuacidad. El noveno de la colección de veinticuatro entremeses, Musa entre- tenida de varios entremeses (1658) constituye una adaptación del entremés Los habladores, a veces atribuido a Cervantes. Este trabajo analiza los motivos comerciales de la nueva ver- sión de esta pieza, además de los cambios realizados en el proceso de adaptación. Se arguye que, en El pícaro hablador, Coelho Rebello reescribe Los habladores como un entremés claramente picaresco para valerse de la popularidad tanto de este género dramático como del novelesco picaresco. Mediante una comparación de las dos obras, se examina cómo Coelho Rebello concibe el personaje del pícaro al destilarlo a una sola característica que fuera capaz de representarse en forma entremesil, lo que Gonzalo Sobejano llama “locuacidad crítica”, ejemplificada en la verbosidad alógica y la versificación del personaje titular.
While texts of the Spanish picaresque portray their antiheroic protagonist with a
number of different traits, Manoel Coelho Rebello in El pícaro hablador, a work that is widely cited but not widely studied, chooses only one characteristic of the pícaro to form the basis of his brief entremés: his loquacity. The ninth in a collection of twenty-four entreme- ses titled Musa entretenida de varios entremeses (1658), this dramatic piece is an adaptation of Los habladores, an entremés sometimes attributed to Cervantes. This article will consider the commercial motives for the new version of the work, in addition to the changes that were carried out in the process of adapting the play. It is argued that, in El pícaro hablador, Coelho Rebello rewrites Los habladores as a clearly picaresque entremés in order to leverage the popularity of both the entremés genre itself and the picaresque novel. By comparing both works, this article analyzes how Coelho Rebello embodies the character of the pícaro under one single trait on the entremés stage, a feature that Gonzalo Sobejano calls “critical loquacity,” exemplified by the main character’s alogical verbosity and poetic versification.