Mistral takes advantage of her status as representative, and the representational capacities of language, to make visible the traces of what otherwise escapes the official order of things.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 and RMST 202 about Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. With Brianne Orr-Alvarez and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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A great writer not only writes great work, but also, more fundamentally and importantly, changes our sense of what great work is, and even charts a new role for the writer in society.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Nellie Campobello's novel of the Mexican Revolution, Cartucho. With Ryan Long and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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Campobello restores the idea that something was truly at stake in a conflict that can otherwise appear so chaotic and disorderly: at its best, it was fought for the right to play, to laugh, to feel, to be free from constraint.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Mariano Azuela's novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs (Los de abajo). With Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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Azuela reveals aspects of the Revolution that are apolitical, anti-political, or even infrapolitical (the non-political conditions of possibility for the political), in that he depicts it in terms of drives and emergent habits that have not yet fully coalesced into political form.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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This is a “backwoods” history that aims, with gentle irony, to question the usual privileging of “civilization” over “barbarism” that otherwise structures most literary depictions of nineteenth-century Latin America.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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What is the “play”—the “freedom, opportunity, or room for action; scope for activity”—that literature offers, once we realize that there is no one “right” way of reading?

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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