Encuentros borgeanos: “El etnógrafo” en “Tristes Trópicos” de Lévi-Strauss

Raúl Mayo Santana Encuentros borgeanos: “El etnógrafo” en Tristes Trópicos de Lévi-Strauss Tinta regada 1 de enero de 2025 La obra de Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Trópicos (1955, 2006), marcó un hito en el pensamiento antropológico universal. El libro está basado en su experiencia etnográfica en Brasil entre 1935 y 1939. En 1967, el escritor mexicano,…

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…

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.

Reading the Shore from the “Edge, Unseen”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Tidalectics in William Carlos Williams’s “Flowers by the Sea”

María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló Reading the Shore from the “Edge, Unseen”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Tidalectics in William Carlos Williams’s “Flowers by the Sea” Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 This is an exercise in the crossing of oars. An exploration of the spaces in-between, the perpendicularity of things that transcends to yield parallels. Such…

Comments on the William Carlos Williams Biennial

W. Scott Peterson, MD Comments on the William Carlos Williams Biennial Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 As an independent scholar who has published work on William Carlos Williams,* I have attended all the WCW Biennials to date.  They are wonderful meetings, allowing anyone interested in Williams to participate in the substantive discussions following…

William Carlos Williams and Bibliotherapy

Michael Huffmaster William Carlos Williams and Bibliotherapy Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 As a scholar of German (which is to say, not English or American) literature, I have what I would call an average educated North American’s familiarity with the poetry of William Carlos Williams. That is to say, I know the two…