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Anzaldúa across Borders: A Traveling Thought Gallery

August 27, 2017

BY SUSANNA SHARPE An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are cables that hold up the bridge. —Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 When Chicana author, cultural theorist, and feminist Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa died in 2004, she … [Read more...] about Anzaldúa across Borders: A Traveling Thought Gallery

Tagged With: Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Chicana literature, feminism, Gloria Anzaldúa

Faculty and Staff Profiles, Fall 2017

August 24, 2017

BY SUSANNA SHARPE Pilar Zazueta In 2012, Mexico attained the dubious distinction of becoming the world’s number one consumer of soft drinks, passing previous first-place holder the United States. And although Mexico is no longer in first place (Argentina now claims that title), the increasing … [Read more...] about Faculty and Staff Profiles, Fall 2017

Tagged With: Laura G. Gutiérrez, LLILAS Benson, LLILAS faculty, Pilar Zazueta, Zhandra Andrade

Cardenal in Hard Times

August 24, 2017

BY LUIS E. CÁRCAMO-HUECHANTE Leer en español It was the winter of 1979. I was already in my fourth year of high school in Valdivia, in southern Chile, when my literature teacher surprised my class by bringing in a record player. As she turned it on, a singular voice came out, with an accent … [Read more...] about Cardenal in Hard Times

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Chile, Ernesto Cardenal, LLILAS Benson, Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Nicaragua

Reading the First Books: Colonial Mexican Documents in the Digital Age

August 24, 2017

BY HANNAH ALPERT-ABRAMS AND MARIA VICTORIA FERNANDEZ In 1595, in Mexico City, the Jesuit priest Antonio del Rincón (1555–1601) published a grammatical description of the Nahuatl language. Though other grammars of Nahuatl existed, Rincón’s Arte mexicana was the first to describe the indigenous … [Read more...] about Reading the First Books: Colonial Mexican Documents in the Digital Age

Tagged With: colonial Mexico, Digital humanities, Nahuatl, OCR, Primeros Libros

Love, Cacao, and Chocolate’s Mesoamerican Origins

February 14, 2017

By PILAR ZAZUETA No other Western holiday is more closely identified with chocolate than Valentine’s Day. The seasonal aisles in stores and supermarkets are filled with chocolate, and food companies spend vast sums of advertising dollars trying to persuade us to celebrate by consuming it in large … [Read more...] about Love, Cacao, and Chocolate’s Mesoamerican Origins

Tagged With: Cacao, chocolate, Mesoamerica, Pilar Zazueta, Valentine's Day

Interview with Ernesto Cardenal

November 21, 2016

In spring 2016, José Montelongo, librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, visited the home of Father Ernesto Cardenal in Managua, Nicaragua. The occasion was the recent acquisition of Father Cardenal's personal papers, an archive that now resides at the Benson. In these excerpts … [Read more...] about Interview with Ernesto Cardenal

Tagged With: Ernesto Cardenal, Managua, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution

Rethinking Maya Studies: A Conversation with Ruud van Akkeren

August 5, 2016

BY SUSANNA SHARPE It is hard not to feel moved when talking to Ruud van Akkeren about his research. In such a conversation, it quickly becomes clear that Van Akkeren has his own nuanced, and possibly revolutionary, way of understanding Maya past and present in Guatemala, and that he doesn’t … [Read more...] about Rethinking Maya Studies: A Conversation with Ruud van Akkeren

Tagged With: Guatemala, Highland Maya, Kaminal Juyu, Maya, Rabinal achi, Ruud van Akkeren

Architecture Through the Lens

July 6, 2016

Faculty and students at LLILAS Benson train their cameras on Latin American architectural gems old and new. Here is a sample of images from Brazil and Mexico, with more to come.                 … [Read more...] about Architecture Through the Lens

Tagged With: Benjamín Ibarra Sevilla, Catedral de Brasília, Catedral de Santiago, Coixlahuaca, Fernando Luiz Lara, Lizeth Elizondo, Marianne Peretti, Niemeyer, Saltillo

García Márquez’s Pentimenti

March 19, 2016

Gabriel García Márquez

BY JOSÉ MONTELONGO On the morning of November 24, 2014, The New York Times published the news that The University of Texas at Austin had acquired the papers of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. A few months earlier, Stephen Enniss, director of the university’s Harry Ransom Center, and … [Read more...] about García Márquez’s Pentimenti

Tagged With: Gabo, García Márquez, Harry Ransom Center, José Montelongo, Nobel Prize Literature, One Hundred Years of Solitude, UT Austin

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