Boxed

Touihri Rabeb, Eötvös Loránd University Boxed Tinta regada 1 de enero de 2025 “We are the solution, not the problem.” That’s what Tris Prior from the movie Insurgent (2015) realized. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic experiment where people are categorized into factions. However, some don’t comply with any of the categories, and these…

Latino USA: A Cartoon History, Ilan Stavans

dic 6, 2024 Latino USA: A Cartoon History Ilan Stavans Presentado por Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera y Annette Martínez-Iñesta Comprar libro Resumen Latino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised Edition (Hachette Book Group, 2024) escrito por Ilan Stavans e ilustrado por Lalo Alcaraz, enfrenta los desafíos de capturar las alegrías, los matices y las múltiples dimensiones de la cultura latina dentro…

Dos miradas: Israel y el judaísmo en Puerto Rico

Resumen “Dos miradas: Israel y el judaísmo en Puerto Rico” por Dariel U. González García (אוריאל בן אברהם), Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez, fue publicado en Perspectivas sobre cuestiones globales en 2024. El argumento examina las raíces históricas de la comunidad judía puertorriqueña, desde los inicios de la colonización española a finales del siglo XV, con…

Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras

Dr. Mark C. Long, Professor of English Emeritus, Keene State College President of the William Carlos Williams Society Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 Since 2005 the William Carlos Williams Society Biennial Conference has brought together writers, literary and cultural historians, and independent scholars to discuss Williams’s writing and…

William Carlos Williams 10th Biannual International Conference

As co-director of the on-site organizing committee, I had the honor to welcome a distinguished group of professors, scholars, and poets to the 10th Biannual International Conference, Crossing Borders/Cruzando Fronteras, which was held at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez campus from Thursday, 15th to Saturday 17th of February 2024. The conference was dedicated to William Carlos Williams, medical doctor, multilingual writer, and one of the most important poets of the 20th century.

Williams’ Unsung Tribute to Mayagüez

Mayagüez in Williams’ narrative about his mayagüezana mother Elena Hoheb William is the backdrop of his earliest poems about her in Al Que Quiere, poems that voiced his displeasure with what he perceived as her upbringing romanticized. Her escapism characterized with memories of Mayagüez and Paris and succumbing to spiritualist trances colors The Autobiography, a portrayal he walked back in Yes, Mrs. Williams. This erratic composite makes up the narrative of Williams’ conflicted understanding of Elena.