A conversation for SPAN 312 about Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing! With Giannina Braschi and Jon Beasley-Murray. In which we talk about language, cosmopolitanism, the collective, and the end of the twentieth century.

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Braschi’s novel resists translation both because it is already in translation—and translation cannot be translated—and because it touches on the untranslatable, on the limits of language and meaning.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Roberto Bolaño's post-dictatorship novel, Distant Star. With Ryan Long and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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Literature can never forget that it is first and foremost an index of barbarism, and only secondarily (if at all) any kind of recompense or restitution.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Rigoberta Menchú's famed but controversial testimonio, I, Rigoberta Menchú. With John Beverley and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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However much we imagine or hope we are in solidarity with her and her struggle, we are reminded that the basis of that solidarity has to be difference and respect. Her struggle is not ours, and never will be.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Mario Vargas Llosa's comic novel, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service. With Phil Swanson and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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In Vargas Llosa’s world, something is almost always fucked up—a death, a massacre, a marriage, a disappearance—and it is up to him or his characters to find out why and how.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Clarice Lispector's last novel, The Hour of the Star. With Sonia Roncador and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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It is about an ethics of writing, about how writing can be true to life, to “a life,” without necessarily laying claim to the truth of that life. It is about the hesitations, affirmations, and disruptive explosions that mark any text as it tries to describe and negotiate the world.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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