The year 2021 represents an important milestone in Australian literary history – the fiftieth anniversary of David Ireland’s Miles Franklin Prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. This anniversary comes at a time of unprecedented economic, political and social dislocation, as the [...]
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In 1848 The Communist Manifesto argued that the bourgeoisie ‘for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions…has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.’ This did not remain Marx’s view of the bourgeoisie, however, at least of the English bourgeoisie as he [...]
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One of the most special moments you can have as a scholar is for a particular project to irresistibly place itself at the centre of your attention. You think about it, obsess about it, lose sleep over it, sure in the knowledge that you must pursue it wherever it may lead. I was lucky enough [...]
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We share a common desire to understand the interlocking relations of race and space in Latin America. While in graduate school at the University of Minnesota—where Joel Wainwright wrote his PhD (Geography) on the colonisation of the Maya in Belize, Joshua Lund (Spanish) wrote on theories of [...]
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Continuing my engagement with the novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) on Mexico, my attention here turns to el monstruo, the monster, that is his book Retornamos como sombras (Returning as Shadows, 2001). Readers of my earlier blog post The Shadows of [...]
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Furthering my sometime theme on the representations of space in Mexico City, I want to continue my interest in the work of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) and this time his novella De Paso (1986), published subsequently in English as Just Passing Through with [...]
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With a view to tracing representations of space in Mexico City my attention here turns to the work of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) in his transgressions of story-history, starting with the novel Sombra de la sombra (1986) published in English as The Shadow of the Shadow with Cinco Puntos [...]
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What role does the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City play in the literature of Mexico? Reflecting on this question, my assumption was that no better source to turn to would be Carlos Fuentes and his first novel La región más transparente [Where the Air is [...]
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