Literatura Entries

19 de Abril, 2008

In Memory of Aimé Césaire

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guest Blogando , Kevin , Literatura | Tags: Aimé Césaire, Post Colonialism

On Thursday, 17 April, the Martinique poet, activist, politician, and post-colonial theorist Aimé Fernand David Césaire died. Césaire was a central figure in what can be considered the French version of the Harlem Renaissance. While in school at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he helped found L'Étudiant Noir (The Black Student), a...

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 Kevin, when not battling the evil forces of academia, wiles his time away writing about truth, justice, and the American way at A Slant Truth. He most definitely doesn't have a comic book fetish, but he does seek to redefine those terms to mean something more humane. He also wants to make you dance. This post created at 10:44 AM.   | | (7)

12 de Abril, 2008

Let's Do This

Categorized under Blogando , Kevin , Literatura , Palabras , The CyberXicano | Tags: Amigos and Amigas, Angry Black Woman, blogs, Computers, Darfur, Language

Nezua and crew have graciously invited me to guest post here at the UMX blog. I figure that before I bust up in here with all sorts of shenanigans and hijinks I should introduce myself. Hey, Y'all! I'm Kevin. That was easy, but I suppose doesn't really say much, now...

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19 de Marzo, 2008

90 orbits

Categorized under Literatura , Salud | Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, Authors

GOODBYE to Arthur C. Clarke one of the Sci-Fi names I read devoutly during younger years, along with Asimov, Le Guin, Bradbury, Heinlen, and some others. British-born science fiction guru, Arthur C. Clarke, died at a hospital in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, his aide Rohan de Silva told AFP....

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:48 AM.  | | (4)

21 de Febrero, 2008

Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

Categorized under Comida , Corazón , Cultura , Literatura , Parenting | Tags: Adoption, Authors, Comida, Kim Sunée

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY, full of poignant struggle, sensuality, sorrow, happiness, and food. In 1973, when she was 3, her mother abandoned her in a crowded South Korean market swirling in gray mist and banana flowers. “Although memories are distorted,” she writes, “there are true sensations one doesn’t forget,...

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18 de Febrero, 2008

187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border

Categorized under Literatura , Raza | Tags: Authors, JFH

SOME GATO who shares my last name is putting out a book on la frontera y los migrantes and it is called 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border. One of my favorite poets, Lorna Dee Cervantes, has some words on it: My old friend and literary buzz saw,...

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18 de Enero, 2008

Kurt's First Guest Post

Categorized under Literatura , Quotes | Tags: Authors, Hope, Vonnegut

A SMALL REMINDER from our friend, Kurt Vonnegut. For no special reason except for that it lives on. And should:...

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30 de Diciembre, 2007

The Fable of Greebey Vather, Time Traveler Extraordinaire

Categorized under Frontera , Literatura , Medios | Tags: borders, Film, Hope, hypocrisy, Mexicans, Mexico, Outtakes and Remakes, Thompson

I see a screenplay blooming. Dealing with a favorite theme: time travel. You now think you'll steal this zeitgeisty gem from me, but you cannot because in the future, I have already finished it, and am mailing it to myself yesterday in a walnut sealed in Presidential earwax and pressurized...

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21 de Diciembre, 2007

las flores y las plumas

Categorized under Literatura , Poesía | Tags: Francisco X Alarcón, Poets

we opened the doors of our homes to greet them they came in & evicted us we showed them the open green of our valleys the clear blue of the sky they cut down the forests for their furnaces for their crosses we gave them all the fruits of...

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13 de Diciembre, 2007

The Masked Pundito

Categorized under Literatura , Medios | Tags: Authors, Mexico

WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE yours truly may be soon writing a weekly column in the Mexican newspaper [edited, maybe better to keep unnamed until finalized?]! Or "half" of it. It's a "head to head" type of thing, tho that sounds more confrontational than it actually is. It's more of...

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10 de Noviembre, 2007

The Naked...and

Categorized under Literatura , Salud | Tags: Authors, Norman Mailer

AFTER HIS RECENT hospitalization, Norman Mailer has died. Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Norman Mailer, the prolific writer whose public brawls and macho swagger often overshadowed his Pulitzer Prize-winning prose that challenged society's views of politics and sex, died early today. He was 84. Mailer died of renal failure at...

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26 de Octubre, 2007

Teen Jailed for Bad Reading Tastes

Categorized under Ley , Literatura | Tags: Fear, war on terror

AND TO SEND A MESSAGE. Remember the case I posted on, where a teenager (turns out he was 17) was arrested for owning a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook? Well, it turns out that while the judge claims the kid is "not radicalised" nor a "politicised Islamist," hizzoner felt...

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17 de Octubre, 2007

Norman Mailer Hospitalized

Categorized under Literatura | Tags: Authors, Norman Mailer

NORMAN MAILER in the hospital. Ex-wife Carol Mailer says "He's not in very good shape." Prominent US writer and journalist Norman Mailer has been hospitalized here with acute respiratory problems. —Raw Story...

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7 de Octubre, 2007

Governments Don't Kill People, Books Do.

Categorized under Gobierno , Literatura , Violencia | Tags: war on terror

I HOPE this arrest is not part of anyone's quota in fighting "terrorism." A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court. The 17-year-old, who was arrested in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire on Monday, was given bail after a hearing...

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4 de Octubre, 2007

The Latino Challenge to Black America: Q &A With Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Categorized under Literatura , Raza | Tags: Authors, blogs, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Latino

LAST WEEK I mentioned that today I would be posting the questions I posed Earl Ofari Hutchinson in reaction to reading his book The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African-Americans and Hispanics, and that if readers were around at 4:00 - 4:30 or so, and...

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3 de Octubre, 2007

EOH@theunapologeticmexican/Open Threadiness

Categorized under Blogando , Literatura | Tags: Authors, blogs, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Open Thread

A REMINDER that tomorrow is the question and answer post with Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Otherwise, Open thy Thread at will....

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27 de Septiembre, 2007

The Latino Challenge to Black America

Categorized under Literatura , Raza | Tags: Authors, Blacks, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Hope, Latino, Race, The Haunted Land

EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON is a widely-read author and political analyst, perhaps if nowhere else, you've seen him on Huffington Post. While I can't say I always agree with his take, what I do respect is that he employs a reflex in his writing that seeks to find the truth...

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28 de Mayo, 2007

187 Reasons Promo Site

Categorized under Literatura | Tags: arte, JFH, website

THIS IS MY OLD MAN'S promotional site for his new book 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border. So far, it is just a temp splash page for the book, but I'm doing a lot more work on it. Doubling up the column, toolbar on top, blog, pages, banana...

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14 de Mayo, 2007

Chican@ Art Mag #3 [Junio Release]

Categorized under Arte , Literatura , Raza | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag

OKAY! A friend and reader reminded me that I have neglected to follow up on the Chican@ Art Mag dillio. (I also know I owe you a couple other posts on other issues I've mentioned). So without delving deeply into what a monster this maw of a blog is...

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13 de Mayo, 2007

Delegate Cero, the United Others, and The New Porn

Categorized under Indígena , Literatura , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: EZLN, Hope, indigenous, Marcos, Mexicans, Mexico

MARCOS speaks of his new (erotic) book, his mask, and the future as he sees it. The subcomandante's specific aim in his current low-key tour of the country is to consolidate the broad and loose collection of marginal left groups known as The Other Campaign. Marcos hopes this rather...

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24 de Abril, 2007

Let's Have Nexus

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Literatura , Política Estados Unidos , Sexismo , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Violencia | Tags: Devious Diva, Hate Groups, Hope, Kathy Sierra, Let's Have Nexus, Overlap, pundits, racism, Soul of the World

THE NON-MAINSTREAM areas of the blogosfero—the Brown™, the Feminists, the disabled, the marginalized—bring us many intelligent, hopeful, restless people finding the ways in which they want to grow, to reach for their own light, their own right, their own path away from the cramped vessel of personal servitude or...

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20 de Abril, 2007

The Age of Garudacoatl

Categorized under Frontera , Literatura | Tags: borders, familia, JFH

FROM NAROPA U. AND THE AGE OF GARUDACOATL: Join in a one-day conference celebrating diversity and examining racial issues through eastern practices and talks Friday, April 20, as Naropa students present Floricanto Naropa on the Arapahoe Campus. Floricanto Naropa includes several guest speakers including: Juan Felipe Herrera, Naropa Associate...

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black men playing basketball

Categorized under Literatura | Tags: Fear, racism

TAKEN FROM a fantastic book by Derrick Jensen, called The Culture of Make Believe. I have to admit I'm glad I was born white. Very rarely have I received stares of hatred due to my race. When I was a teenager, I spent a summer at the University of Southern...

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12 de Abril, 2007

And so on.

Categorized under Historia , Literatura | Tags: Authors, Vonnegut

VAYA CON DIOS, Kurt! You were a storyteller, a teacher, and a friend. The world won't be quite the same without you, amigo....

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22 de Febrero, 2007

Burning So Bright, Even at Night

Categorized under Literatura | Tags: Poets

NOW WE TAKE A MOMENT to honor Diane Burns, 1957 - 2006, Native American poet. Remembered by many with the strongest of affection and reverence, Diane was known as a dramatic, strong, creative, beautiful and troubled soul; a fiercely shining light that this world, with all its cruelty, fought...

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19 de Febrero, 2007

Chican@ Art Mag #3 [March Release]

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , Literatura , Raza | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag, Pat Buchanan, pundits

IF YOU WANT TO READ UP on why I post about this mag, or how I am involved (writer), you can click here to find all the entries on this topic. If you've been reading a while, you already know. And you also know that the Winter issue is...

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6 de Febrero, 2007

Feed the Head

Categorized under Cultura , Literatura , Medios | Tags:

I'D LOVE TO HEAR your suggestions on replacing a few magazine subscriptions. A friend has stopped ordering the local (rightwing-tinted) newspaper, as well as Newsweek®, and Art in America®, and a travel magazine. I can't be sure they cancelled them all due to the reasons I would have—propaganda for...

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22 de Enero, 2007

For Nanette

Categorized under Literatura , Memicry | Tags:

THE BOOK MEME. Page 123. Sentences 5, 6, 7. Book within reach of right hand, next to an empty Glenlivet bottle and container of raisins. As for the good carrier, whose lusts kept him awake, he had heard his wench from the moment she came in, and had been listening...

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11 de Enero, 2007

A Pyramid in Pacoima

Categorized under Arte , Blogando , Literatura | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag, JFH, personal

LAURA, our favorite editor, called to give me The Crunch. That is, she called me to inform me that they need me to chop my article by 35% and have it done by tomorrow morning, at the latest. So I will be nariz to the grindstone for the rest...

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8 de Enero, 2007

State of Supremacy - A Rant on Buchanan

Categorized under Literatura | Tags: borders, brown pride, Chicanism@, False History, hypocrisy, Imperialism, indigenous, Mexicans, Mexico, Pat Buchanan, propaganda, pundits, racism, Reconquista, satire, The White Lens

IT WASN'T EASY to check the box above this post for the "Literatura" category. It's a very generous term to apply to Pat Buchanan's book State of Emergency, which I had to read to write the article on The Great Aztlán Reconquista Plot for Chican@ Art Mag's Winter issue....

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10 de Diciembre, 2006

A Cruel Dimension of Reality

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Chile, Pinochet

WITH THE DEATH, FINALLY, OF AUGUSTO PINOCHET, self-appointed "Supreme Head of the Nation of Chile," I am soothed. While nothing can undo the untold amounts of pain and suffering that his coup and junta brought about, at least we were able to watch him become wracked with disease and...

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9 de Diciembre, 2006

Song of the Seven-Hearted Boy

Categorized under Literatura | Tags: Lorca

Canción del muchacho de siete corazonesSiete corazonestengo.Pero el mío no lo encuentro. En el alto monte, madre, tropezábamos yo y el viento.Siete niñas de largas monosme llevaron en sus espejos.He cantado por el mundocon mi boca de siete pétalos.Mis galeras de amarantoiban sin jarcias y sin remos.He vivido los paisajesde...

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8 de Diciembre, 2006

The Mad Ones

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1 de Diciembre, 2006

Nezua Limón to Spearhead Aztlán 2007 Blitz

Categorized under Arte , Literatura , Raza | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag

THE SECRET AGENDA OF THE AZTLAN PLOT (no, newbie, not the Mexican lion) has been discovered! But the Chican@/Xican@ forces are rallying, and yours truly has been requested to lead the charge that will strike back at the bright and rotten core of today's Anti-Mexican Sentiment. It is time...

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25 de Noviembre, 2006

We'd rather the bird were back in the cage

Categorized under Literatura | Tags:

I'VE GOT IT! If we just wipe out all books that discuss rape and the unwanted pregnancies that may follow, we can finally have our utopia and live as One under a fluffy, divine Bunny in the Sky! I say we make a new War on Something. How about....a...

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5 de Noviembre, 2006

Built of Bones

Categorized under Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Antepasados, borders, historia, The Haunted Land

NOT CONTENT TO LIMIT OUR AWARENESS to "congressional" "oversight," the benefits of the two-party system and the last week's worth of mediatric spinnypulp, we strive to understand this world we have been born into. We want to know what the true law is. Who rules me? What do I...

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2 de Noviembre, 2006

hurling ideas of redemption

Categorized under Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: EZLN, Format, indigenous, LA Riots, Oaxaca, Power to the People

UNDETERRED BY DISTRACTION and commercials for more gloss, human smell-killer, blemish-hider, instant snax and war without end, we feel our toes sink into the maize and blood-colored path that twists into the woods, through the blistering sands, and finally leading up that stepped path to the stars....to the fifth...

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27 de Octubre, 2006

El Quintosol

Categorized under Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Califas, Chicanism@, Quintosol

YOU WILL RECALL TIMES in our short (but dear) past when we spoke of Chicanism@, and the literature that intertwines. It is some powerful and beautiful art. The corridos, the stories, the poems, the paintings. Amazing. And I think we (meaning i) can get a look at the idea...

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26 de Octubre, 2006

Chican@ Art Mag Suffers From Lack of Nezua

Categorized under Literatura | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag, Published Work

I KNOW I'VE BEEN HYPING up the release of Chican@ Art Mag's inclusion of my writing, and the mag itself, its writeups, as well as how I feel it is important to support the Chican@ community and the Chican@ art community. If you recall, my not-so-mild mannered snark attack...

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7 de Octubre, 2006

Chican@ Art Mag in LA Times

Categorized under Arte , Literatura , Palabras , Raza | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag

BECAUSE I'VE ALREADY PIMPED THIS extensively, and that sort of thing gets tiring, I won't go on and on. But on this slowest of blogging days, I thought it right to mention that Chican@ Art Mag (featuring mucho arte hermoso by various artists and even some palabras by yours...

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14 de Septiembre, 2006

Centavo in the Well

Categorized under Arte , Literatura , Medios , Raza | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag

WE SPEAK OFTEN OF OUR UNITY, about supporting Raza, about our buying power and the transcendant potential of art. I would like to bring that into a specific agenda for one short post. I am not a seller. You can look back at my life, you can look at...

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31 de Agosto, 2006

Progress, Success, and Masks.

Categorized under Literatura | Tags:

I will take this opportunity to link you to Chican@ Art Magazine, which looks delicious. Clearly this is a publication that only employs the most discerning and brilliant editors (and artists and writers), and I take great umbrage at the suggestion that their recent request for yours truly to...

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21 de Agosto, 2006

Horizonte [Federico García Lorca]

Categorized under Literatura , Poesía | Tags: JFH, Lorca, Poets

HorizonteSobre la verde brumasa cae un sol sin rayos.La ribera sombría sueña al par que la barca y la esquila inevitabletraba la melancolía.En mi alma de ayersuena un tamborcillode plata.—Federico García Lorca, Seis canciones de anochecer: Horizonte...

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