Juan E De Castro
@juanedecastro.bsky.social
Literary critic and professor.
My book on José Carlos Mariátegui is currently on sale.
Bread and Beauty
A definitive reevaluation of the relationship between culture and politics in the thought of Peruvian socialist José Carlos Mariátegui.
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July 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My book on José Carlos Mariátegui is currently on sale.
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A huge thank you for @juanedecastro.bsky.social for his time and unlimited knowledge on Gabriel García Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and sharing it with us on the Colombia Calling podcast.
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April 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A huge thank you for @juanedecastro.bsky.social for his time and unlimited knowledge on Gabriel García Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and sharing it with us on the Colombia Calling podcast.
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New release on Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues! 📖 This volume by @marcoramirezrojas.bsky.social and José Carlos Díaz Zanelli comprehensively examines key issues such as translatability, geographical imaginaries & editorial networks.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New release on Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues! 📖 This volume by @marcoramirezrojas.bsky.social and José Carlos Díaz Zanelli comprehensively examines key issues such as translatability, geographical imaginaries & editorial networks.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
My contribution to Forma's Debates on the state of Latin American criticism is available. Thanks to Stephen Buttes and
@jose-eduardo.bsky.social for asking me to collaborate.
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@jose-eduardo.bsky.social for asking me to collaborate.
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The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America: Reading John Beverley (with a Detour through Antonio Cornejo Polar) - Forma
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February 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My contribution to Forma's Debates on the state of Latin American criticism is available. Thanks to Stephen Buttes and
@jose-eduardo.bsky.social for asking me to collaborate.
www.formajournal.org/essays/the-f...
@jose-eduardo.bsky.social for asking me to collaborate.
www.formajournal.org/essays/the-f...
Wordling Latin America: Corpus, Praxis, and Global Networks, edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and José Carlos Zanelli is available. Proud to have my "José Carlos Mariátegui: Eurocentrism, Indigeneity, the Avant-Garde, and World Literature" included in the anthology:
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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Worlding Latin America
This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues by incorporating understudied archives and opening new lines of inquir...
www.degruyter.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wordling Latin America: Corpus, Praxis, and Global Networks, edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and José Carlos Zanelli is available. Proud to have my "José Carlos Mariátegui: Eurocentrism, Indigeneity, the Avant-Garde, and World Literature" included in the anthology:
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Worldling Latin America edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and José Carlos Díaz Zanelli is up on Google Books. Proud that my "José Carlos Mariátegui: Eurocentrism, Indigeneity, the Avant-Garde and World Literature" is included in this important critical anthology.
books.google.com/books?id=afQ...
books.google.com/books?id=afQ...
Worlding Latin America
This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues by incorporating understudied archives and opening new lines of inquir...
books.google.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Worldling Latin America edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and José Carlos Díaz Zanelli is up on Google Books. Proud that my "José Carlos Mariátegui: Eurocentrism, Indigeneity, the Avant-Garde and World Literature" is included in this important critical anthology.
books.google.com/books?id=afQ...
books.google.com/books?id=afQ...
Este año fallecieron dos de mis críticos más admirados: primero, Fredric Jameson, y, ahora, Beariz Sarlo. Para mí, su Borges, un escritor en las orillas y Escenas de la vida posmoderna son obras claves.
December 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Este año fallecieron dos de mis críticos más admirados: primero, Fredric Jameson, y, ahora, Beariz Sarlo. Para mí, su Borges, un escritor en las orillas y Escenas de la vida posmoderna son obras claves.
My book Bread and Beauty is 40% off ($18) as part of the sale at Haymarket Books .
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1752-b...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1752-b...
Bread and Beauty
A definitive reevaluation of the relationship between culture and politics in the thought of Peruvian socialist José Carlos Mariátegui.
www.haymarketbooks.org
December 9, 2024 at 3:35 PM
My book Bread and Beauty is 40% off ($18) as part of the sale at Haymarket Books .
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1752-b...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1752-b...
It seems that my institution--and my colleagues--are joyfully embracing AI.
November 15, 2024 at 12:58 PM
It seems that my institution--and my colleagues--are joyfully embracing AI.
In homage to the truly great Fredric Jameson: I remember that during the first international conference I attended, the main speaker-whose name I've forgotten-a white, German, Ivy-league professor of African American lit, told the audience not to listen to patriarchs like Fredric Jameson.
September 28, 2024 at 5:15 PM
In homage to the truly great Fredric Jameson: I remember that during the first international conference I attended, the main speaker-whose name I've forgotten-a white, German, Ivy-league professor of African American lit, told the audience not to listen to patriarchs like Fredric Jameson.
Es increíble lo antipático que era José Santos Chocano.
September 28, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Es increíble lo antipático que era José Santos Chocano.
For those in NYC looking for an alternative Halloween activity (though you can still wear a costume if desired).
September 28, 2024 at 3:04 PM
For those in NYC looking for an alternative Halloween activity (though you can still wear a costume if desired).
For those in NYC interested in Roberto Bolaño
March 7, 2024 at 2:27 PM
For those in NYC interested in Roberto Bolaño
Of all meaningless achievements having one's contributions be "the most read contributions from your institution last week" on Researchgate must be the most meaningless.
February 26, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Of all meaningless achievements having one's contributions be "the most read contributions from your institution last week" on Researchgate must be the most meaningless.
For those around NYC on 3/26.
February 17, 2024 at 5:53 PM
For those around NYC on 3/26.
A widely respected colleague recently criticized my use of the term "neoliberal." I believe what needs to be studied is what it means to reject the term, especially for a US scholar. Do they believe that nothing changed after 1980? (Or, in Latin America, 1973?)
February 15, 2024 at 1:16 PM
A widely respected colleague recently criticized my use of the term "neoliberal." I believe what needs to be studied is what it means to reject the term, especially for a US scholar. Do they believe that nothing changed after 1980? (Or, in Latin America, 1973?)
Just received The Political Uses of Literature, edited by Benjamin Kohlmann & Ivana Perica. (In addition to other essays, includes my "Politics and Literature on the Peruvian Periphery: Realism and Experimentation in the Works of César Vallejo and José Carlos Mariátegui").
January 17, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Just received The Political Uses of Literature, edited by Benjamin Kohlmann & Ivana Perica. (In addition to other essays, includes my "Politics and Literature on the Peruvian Periphery: Realism and Experimentation in the Works of César Vallejo and José Carlos Mariátegui").
A forgotten Christmas classic:
December 25, 2023 at 3:30 PM
A forgotten Christmas classic:
Have managed to use sublation in an article I'm working on. Feel unjustifiably profound.
December 19, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Have managed to use sublation in an article I'm working on. Feel unjustifiably profound.
I cannot help feeling that an uncritical support for any and all actions by the state of Israel has become part of what it means to be a liberal.
December 17, 2023 at 6:10 PM
I cannot help feeling that an uncritical support for any and all actions by the state of Israel has become part of what it means to be a liberal.
Reading Gundle's otherwise very interesting Mussolini's Dream Factory, I come upon the following: "For the Peruvian author Manuel Puig, Isa Miranda loomed large in his
imagination." Oh well, at least Puig will enrich the Peruvian canon.
imagination." Oh well, at least Puig will enrich the Peruvian canon.
December 11, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Reading Gundle's otherwise very interesting Mussolini's Dream Factory, I come upon the following: "For the Peruvian author Manuel Puig, Isa Miranda loomed large in his
imagination." Oh well, at least Puig will enrich the Peruvian canon.
imagination." Oh well, at least Puig will enrich the Peruvian canon.
Perhaps the two best recent examples of the differences between US elite-Republican and Democrati-and popular opinions are: 1. how Kissinger is evaluated; 2. whether Israel's mass destruction of Gaza is justified or is a war crime.
November 30, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Perhaps the two best recent examples of the differences between US elite-Republican and Democrati-and popular opinions are: 1. how Kissinger is evaluated; 2. whether Israel's mass destruction of Gaza is justified or is a war crime.
A sure sign that someone is a neoliberal is denying that neoliberalism exists!
November 30, 2023 at 12:51 PM
A sure sign that someone is a neoliberal is denying that neoliberalism exists!
La primera reseña del Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel ha salido. Es muy positiva, aunque discrepo con la idea que no se estudia a I. Allende: los capítulos sobre el realismo mágico de A. Chanady y sobre la novela feminista de María Rosa Olivera-Williams analizan su obra.
Vista de De Castro, Juan E. y Ignacio López Calvo, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American N...
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November 28, 2023 at 1:02 PM
La primera reseña del Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel ha salido. Es muy positiva, aunque discrepo con la idea que no se estudia a I. Allende: los capítulos sobre el realismo mágico de A. Chanady y sobre la novela feminista de María Rosa Olivera-Williams analizan su obra.
I know he's supposed to be obscure (and passé?), but whenever I read F. Jameson I always find him not only understandable but illuminating.
November 26, 2023 at 5:40 PM
I know he's supposed to be obscure (and passé?), but whenever I read F. Jameson I always find him not only understandable but illuminating.