Books by Juan E . De Castro
At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, thr... more At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across stylistic and political divides—like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, or Gabriel García Márquez—see their work as being framed within the confines of a globalized Western literary tradition, their relationship, rather than epigonal, is often subversive.
Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchú and Lurgio Gavilán, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.
Influenced by anarchism and especially by anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel, the political praxis... more Influenced by anarchism and especially by anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel, the political praxis of Peruvian activist and scholar José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930) deviated from the policies mandated by the Comintern. Mariátegui saw only new subjectivities as capable of making a revolution that would not recreate bourgeois or fascist structures. For Mariátegui, a new society required a new culture. He therefore not only founded the Peruvian Socialist Party, but also created Amauta, a magazine that brought together the writings of the political and cultural avant-gardes. Thus, in addition to studying Mariátegui's views on the political valence of cultural habits and products, Bread and Beauty looks at the cultural underpinnings of the political proposals found in his writings and actions. For more information see brill.com Order information: Order online at brill.com The Americas: 1 (860) 350 0041 | [email protected] Outside the Americas: 44 (0) 1767 604-954 | [email protected]
Writing Revolution studies how Latin American authors from José Martí, in the late 19th century, ... more Writing Revolution studies how Latin American authors from José Martí, in the late 19th century, to Roberto Bolaño, in the 21st century, have depicted the idea of maximalist revolution in their fiction and discussed the possibility of social change in their essays. Other authors studied are José Carlos Mariátegui, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez,Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, and Carla Guelfenbein.
The sixth volume of the Literary History of Peru, on nonfiction prose, ed. Juan ,. De Castro.
Vol 6. Contrapunto ideológico y perspectivas dramatúrgicas en el Perú contemporáneo., 2018
Contrapunto ideológico y perspectivas dramatúrgicas en el Perú contemporáneo, el tomo seis de H... more Contrapunto ideológico y perspectivas dramatúrgicas en el Perú contemporáneo, el tomo seis de Historia de las literaturas en el Perú, se ocupa de géneros disímiles pero centrales para toda tradición literaria: la escritura teatral, el ensayo, la crítica literaria y la autobiografía. Como indica el título, en el periodo estudiado —que abarca el siglo XX e incluye algunos textos de inicios del siglo XXI—, la sociedad peruana ha sufrido evoluciones y cambios vertiginosos. Desde una perspectiva cronológica, Contrapunto ideológico y perspectivas dramatúrgicas en el Perú contemporáneo comienza estudiando a autores que escriben durante la República Aristocrática, como el dramaturgo cusqueño Nicanor Jara (1872-1960) o el historiador y crítico José de la Riva Agüero (1885- 1944), y concluye en nuestros días, revisando la obra testimonial de Lurgio Gavilán (1974-) o el teatro de Claudia Sacha (1976-).
Not and world literature, but as world literature, and here resides this volume's decisive and ef... more Not and world literature, but as world literature, and here resides this volume's decisive and effective critical intervention. Not world literature (the tired substitute for a sociology of markets, prizes, and canonizing institutions), but rather literature as world, or rather, literature as non-world, the void that sits where the reassuring presence of the world used to be: Bolaño as the topological writer of the traumatic wound that splits totalizing imaginaries, unworlds a world turned against itself, and dislocates the very possibility of universal emancipation as the horizon for political and aesthetic agency. This urgent book is a crucial contribution to the collective process of redefining the critical and theoretical scope of world literature as a concept and a practice in need to be rescued from itself. "
ABSTRACT The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an import... more ABSTRACT The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays.
Unarguably the greatest active Spanish language novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa was rewarded with th... more Unarguably the greatest active Spanish language novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa was rewarded with the Nobel Prize in 2010 for, in the Swedish Academy’s words, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Beginning with Time of the Hero (1963), the searing virtuoso modernist portrayal of the Leoncio Prado military school, which he had in fact attended, to the recent El héroe discreto (The Discrete Hero) (2013), which presents an optimistic vision of his contemporary native Peru, Vargas Llosa has created an unusually vivid and complex fresco of his country’s twentieth and twenty first century’s political and social evolution. Vargas Llosa has also compellingly portrayed a peasant rebellion in 19th century Brazil in his masterwork The War of the End of the World (1983), the brutal regime of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in his The Feast of the Goat (2000), Flora Tristan’s and her grandson Paul Gauguin’s search for political and artistic utopias in The Way to Paradise (2003), and the personal and political struggles of English diplomat and Irish independence activist Roger Casement in The Dream of the Celt (2010).
This volume, edited by Juan E De Castro, Associate Professor at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, includes essays by some of the best-known Vargas Llosa scholars. The articles not only provide an introduction to the Nobel Prize winner’s novels and essays, they also trace his artistic and political evolution, and place his works in their historical and cultural context. The contributors are respected Vargas Llosa scholars and include Mark D. Anderson, Gene Bell-Villada, Nicholas Birns, Jeffrey Browitt, Sara Castro-Klarén, Will H. Corral, Alonso Cueto, Carlos Granés, Ignacio López-Calvo, Jean O’Bryan-Knight, Miguel Rivera-Taupier, Haqing Sun, and Raymond L. Williams.
Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources:
A chronology of the author's life
A complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication
A general bibliography
A detailed paragraph on the volume's editor
Notes on the individual chapter authors
A subject index
Written from diverse perspectives, the eleven essays that make up Vargas Llosa and Latin American... more Written from diverse perspectives, the eleven essays that make up Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics portray the Peruvian novelist not only as one of the most celebrated writers of the last 50 years, but also as a central influence on the region’s political evolution. Ever since his conversion to free market ideology in the 1980s, Mario Vargas Llosa has waged public battle against what he believes are the scourges of socialism and populism. This book studies the fiction and journalism of Vargas Llosa in the context of his political thought.
The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Productionexamine... more The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Productionexamines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colony to the present. De Castro looks at writers and intellectual polemics that serve as markers of the region's cultural evolution. Among the writers and artists studied are Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Caetano Veloso, and Alberto Fuguet. This book proposes an analysis of the region's literature rooted in its specific cultural, political, and economic locations.
Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of... more Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—Mestizo Nations examines a selection of texts that represent the entire history and regional landscape of Latin American culture in its Western, indigenous, and neo-African traditions from Independence to the present. Through them, Mestizo Nations delineates some of the ambiguities and contradictions that have beset this discourse.
Papers by Juan E . De Castro
ABSTRACT Written from diverse perspectives, the eleven essays that make up Vargas Llosa and Latin... more ABSTRACT Written from diverse perspectives, the eleven essays that make up Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics portray the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist not only as one of the most celebrated writers of the last 50 years, but also as a central influence on the region's political evolution.Ever since his conversion to free market ideology in the 1980s, Mario Vargas Llosa has waged public battle against what he believes are the scourges of socialism and populism. This book studies the fiction and journalism of Vargas Llosa in the context of his political thought.
TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2021
ganador del premio Nobel en el 2010, e influencia sobre muchos de los mejores autores actuales,
Postmodern Culture, 2002
The Deus Ex-Machina. Juan de Castro Colorado School of Mines [email protected]. © 2002 PMC 12.3.... more The Deus Ex-Machina. Juan de Castro Colorado School of Mines [email protected]. © 2002 PMC 12.3. Review of: Jerry Hoeg, Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh UP, 2000. ...
The Contemporary Spanish American Novel: Bolaño and Beyond
Entry on Alarcón in The Contemporary Spanish American Novel
The Contemporary Spanish American Novel: Bolaño and After, 2013
Entry on Santiago Roncagliolo from The Contemporary Spanish American Novel
Contemporary Spanish American Novel: Bolaño and After, 2013
Vol. 6. Contrapunto ideológico y perspectivas dramatúgicas en el Perú contemporáneo , 2018
Amauta y el Amauta estudia la crítica literaria de José Carlos Mariátegui.
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Books by Juan E . De Castro
Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchú and Lurgio Gavilán, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.
This volume, edited by Juan E De Castro, Associate Professor at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, includes essays by some of the best-known Vargas Llosa scholars. The articles not only provide an introduction to the Nobel Prize winner’s novels and essays, they also trace his artistic and political evolution, and place his works in their historical and cultural context. The contributors are respected Vargas Llosa scholars and include Mark D. Anderson, Gene Bell-Villada, Nicholas Birns, Jeffrey Browitt, Sara Castro-Klarén, Will H. Corral, Alonso Cueto, Carlos Granés, Ignacio López-Calvo, Jean O’Bryan-Knight, Miguel Rivera-Taupier, Haqing Sun, and Raymond L. Williams.
Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources:
A chronology of the author's life
A complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication
A general bibliography
A detailed paragraph on the volume's editor
Notes on the individual chapter authors
A subject index
Papers by Juan E . De Castro
Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchú and Lurgio Gavilán, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.
This volume, edited by Juan E De Castro, Associate Professor at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, includes essays by some of the best-known Vargas Llosa scholars. The articles not only provide an introduction to the Nobel Prize winner’s novels and essays, they also trace his artistic and political evolution, and place his works in their historical and cultural context. The contributors are respected Vargas Llosa scholars and include Mark D. Anderson, Gene Bell-Villada, Nicholas Birns, Jeffrey Browitt, Sara Castro-Klarén, Will H. Corral, Alonso Cueto, Carlos Granés, Ignacio López-Calvo, Jean O’Bryan-Knight, Miguel Rivera-Taupier, Haqing Sun, and Raymond L. Williams.
Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources:
A chronology of the author's life
A complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication
A general bibliography
A detailed paragraph on the volume's editor
Notes on the individual chapter authors
A subject index