Review 91: A Year in Review, Fall 2015
Review 91: A Year in Review, Fall 2015
This issue of Americas Society's flagship journal showcases modern and contemporary literature and arts from the Caribbean and Latin America.
Review 91 (Fall 2015; A Year in Review) features historical texts on iconic writers whose oeuvres Review has followed through the years; showcases contemporary writers representing younger generations and various aesthetics, and pieces on the visual and performing arts in the Americas; and presents a substantial selection of reviews of creative titles in translation as well as of scholarly publications, another mainstay of Review since its founding in 1968. This issue also features contents drawn from Americas Society Literature programming. The diverse contents of Review 91 include a text by Alfred Mac Adam celebrating the centenary of the great Boom writer Julio Cortázar; a memorial piece by poet Pura López Colomé about her association with late translator Alastair Reid; texts on Mexican author Sergio Pitol by Juan Villoro and Rafael Lemus, respectively; an excerpt from Argentine author Silvina Ocampo’s posthumous novel La promesa; poetry by Aimé Césaire; and fiction and poetry by contemporary writers Eduardo Chirinos, Luisa Futoransky, Lorna Goodison, and Julio Olaciregui; as well as reprints of classic material by iconoclastic poet Nicolás Guillén and others. The issue also includes public conversations with novelist Esmeralda Santiago and with authors Carmen Boullosa, Rolando Hinojosa, and Nicolás Kanellos that took place at the Society last fall. We’re pleased to present the dynamic images of Cuban-American artist Lydia Rubio, introduced by critic Enrico Santí. Finally, Review 91 compiles reviews of new publications in English and English translation.
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Review 90 (Spring 2016; Latin America and the Technological Imaginary in the Digital Age), guest-edited by cultural critics Mark Dery and Naief Yehya, addresses technology’s impact on creative expression, particularly in an age where collective society is experiencing unprecedented, often violent, change, when an interdisciplinary approach to the world is paramount, where boundaries are breaking down, new paradigms are emerging, and culture and technology intersect in new and previously unimagined combinations. In their respective selections of academic essays and creative texts, Dery and Yehya and their contributors consider the dissolving of boundaries and reconfigured interrelationships between discourses, considering new possibilities for creative production, where what we know as culture—writing, art, music, design—intersects with science, technology, engineering, and even politics and public policy. The contents of this issue, by a plethora of cutting-edge writers and scholars, explore the topic of the border as well as innovations in pop music, contemporary bio-art, burgeoning forms of digital writing, gender boundaries and representations, science fiction, and the often fine line between human and artificial life—all in relation to cyberculture as manifested in both the United States and Latin America (in countries such as Chile, Colombia, and Mexico). In addition to the participants in this launch, the issue includes essays, fiction, and other texts by Alberto Bisama, Bruno Bartra, Alberto Chimal, Liliana Colanzi, Rodrigo Fresán, Belén Gache, Fran Ilich, Wayne Marshall, Eden Medina, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Diego Trelles Paz, and Rafael Toriz. The Features section showcases pieces marking Adolfo Bioy Casares’s centenary and Nicanor Parra’s 100th birthday and a conversation between Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez and American novelist Jess Row. Book reviews cover new titles in translation by Leopoldo Marechal, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Valeria Luiselli, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Andrés Neuman, Mylene Fernández-Pintado, and others.
Review 89 (Fall 2014; The Americas in New York), guest-edited by Nicolás Kanellos (founder of Arte Público Press and Brown Foundation professor at the University of Houston), compiles critical essays, creative texts, book reviews and art by/about Latino writers/artists whose work has contributed to the cultural wealth of New York. Among the critical essays in this issue are contributions by scholars Silvio Torres-Saillant, Laura Lomas, and Vanessa Pérez Rosario, exploring, respectively, Dominican writers in New York, the oeuvres of seminal Puerto Rican poets; and a panorama of Latina writers. The issue also showcases an interview of singer/composer Rubén Blades (in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes), and another conversation with author Isabel Allende and journalist Amy Goodman (from their event at the Americas Society); and original fiction, poetry, and essays by contemporary writers from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, including Carlos Aguasaco, Carmen Boullosa, Angie Cruz, Lyn Di lorio, Isaac Goldemberg, José Kozer, Julio Marzán, J. L. Torres, Sergio Troncoso, and Lila Zemborain. Special features include memorial pieces on Oscar Hijuelos, Tato Laviera, and Juan Gelman; an essay on contemporary Latin American visual arts in New York; an essay on Pablo Neruda by Edwin Williamson; and a reflection by Gregory Rabassa on his translation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Review 89 concludes with reviews of the latest publications by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Edwidge Danticat, Álvaro Enrigue, João Paulo Cuenca, and others.
Review 88 (Spring 204; Beyond Violence: Toward Justice in Latin American Writing and Arts) is guest-edited by Marguerite Feitlowitz and Ksenija Bilbija. The issue compiles articles by leading scholars—Jorge Benavides, Diana Palaversich, and others—as well as creative texts by some of the most iconic figures of contemporary Latin American writing and younger voices from throughout the region. From essays to poetry to short stories to novel excerpts to book reviews, Review 88 includes pieces by such distinguished writers as Héctor Abad (Colombia), Marcelino Freire (Brazil), the late Juan Gelman (Argentina), Yuri Herrera (Mexico), Elena Poniatowska (Mexico), Patricio Pron (Argentina), Laura Restrepo (Colombia), and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, among many others. The issue also includes a memorial piece on Colombian author Alvaro Mutis; arts features; and book reviews of new work in translation by authors including Adolfo Bioy-Casares and Silvina Ocampo, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jorge Volpi, and Rodolfo Walsh.
Review 86 focuses on iconic and emerging writers in Latin America. Guest edited by Carmen Boullosa and Jorge Volpi, Review 86 features academic essays on author Mario Vargas Llosa and other contemporary writers, and on topics including women’s literature and narco-literature. It showcases texts by iconic, established, and emerging writers throughout the hemisphere including Andréa del Fuego (Brazil), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Francisco Font Acevedo (Puerto Rico), Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Ulises Juárez (Nicaragua), Nélida Piñon (Brazil), Sergio Ramírez (Nicaragua), and Ignacio Uranga (Argentina). The issue also includes arts and music pieces, and reviews of new titles by Jorge Amado, Ernesto Cardenal, Junot Díaz, José Donoso, Clarice Lispector, and others.