Mary Louise Pratt

• New York University

This essay examines how two very different thinkers address the question of how to live loss. The first is the Canadian Cree artist and writer Tomson Highway, author most recently of Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordians, and the second is US environmental writer Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New America...

El giro milenario inauguró una nueva fase en la historia de la humanidad. Del auge del post- en los 90s, pasamos a una nueva conciencia planetaria, producto de la cibernética y la catástrofe ecológica. La humanidad enfrenta una crisis de futuridad. El trabajo de Signa Labs refleja este giro planetario en sus aspecto tanto cibernético como ambiental...

In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt refle...

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are...

This paper argues that aesthetic analysis is a necessary tool for sociolinguistic explication, especially of translingual and intercultural verbal activity, and especially for understanding its political dimensions. The suggestion is that to grasp what Doris Sommer has called the ‘real world of living language’ (2004: 34), sociolinguistics needs an...

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading...

As I sit down to write these words in late October 2014, my Latin American news digest has just informed me that archaeologists in Peru have confirmed that toolmaking human beings lived in settlements 14,700 feet above sea level in the Andes over twelve thousand years ago, a thousand years earlier than anyone was known to have lived at such altitud...

En la extensa literatura de hoy sobre globalización, el lenguaje no ha sido una categoría de análisis. Por lo general su fuerza ha sido sencillamente omitida en las teorizaciones de globalidad, movilidad, mercados y geopolítica. Sin embargo, los procesos globales están a cada paso determinados por el lenguaje. El siguiente ensayo tiene como objetiv...

Originally published in a collection in 1987, this article provides a critical discussion of the notion of "linguistic community" in different approaches of language studies, from Generative Theory to Discourse Analysis, including Sociolinguistics and Literary Criticism. In a debate about the distance between the homogeneity of the imagined linguis...

In a close dialogue with questions related to the understanding of linguistic dimensions which are featured around the planetary, social, ecological, economic, political, and imaginary realignments driven by contemporary globalization, this article is focused on the role and importance of language in terms of defining and even determining the proce...

The concept of intangibility points, among other things, to investigations focused on the workings of cultural transmission and reproduction. In contrast with material artefacts, intangible creations endure only through active, socially maintained processes of transmission from older to younger practitioners. These transmissions usually involve tra...

IntroductionMigration and the Distributability of LanguageTranslation, Lingua Francas, and the Power of ComprehensionThe Worlding of LiteratureHeterolingualism and the Extroversion of LanguageReferences and Further Reading

Allan Bell calls on hermeneutics to enliven the relation between discourse analysts and the materials they study, exploring the image of the analyst ‘standing before’ a corpus, prepared to be transformed by it. The ingredient of desire must be added to the account, as well as the embodied scenario of interpretation. These elements are mobilized to...

* Quiero expresar mi gratitud a los colegas del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores de Antropología Social (CIESAS-Occidente) en Guadalajara, México, por su disposición a compartir conmigo ciertas inquietudes y porque con sus acertadas sugerencias enriquecieron este trabajo. Especialmente agradezco el privilegio que significó pasar un año...

Mary Louise Pratt, Harm's Way: Language and the Contemporary Arts of War How does language operate as all instrument of warfare? Leaving behind the idea of violence as beyond words, this essay seeks out terms for a reflection on linguistic violence and the weaponization of language in warfare. Using theories of war and examples from current United...

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Modes and Codes of Communication - ChingMarvin K. L., HaleyMichael C., LunsfordRonald F. (eds.), Linguistic perspectives on literature. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. 332. - Volume 10 Issue 1 - Mary L. Pratt

O principal objetivo deste ensaio é refletir sobre como o processo de globalização é interpretado e representado por distintos imaginários, tais como : públicos, oficiais, vernaculares e pelas zonas de exclusão.

This is a deliberately celebratory account of a fifteen-year experience in collaborative feminist research with a group of women Latin Americanists and Hispanists in the Bay Area in the 1980s and 90s. It's a personal account, and there's a moral at the end. It's difficult now to imagine that in the United States the serious study of American litera...

MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 65.3 (2004) 443-456 Well before the time Weber was writing the passage quoted above, the narrative of the rise of the West could be assumed as a fact, its most glorious and unique creation being a set of universal values and principles capable of unifying and equalizing all humanity. Human progress, or in Kantian term...

The author’s purpose here is to trace the profile of Mexican revolution in Nellie Campobello’s main narratives works, 1931 Cartucho and 1937 Las manos de mamá, linking them with her dancing practices developed throughout those same years. This article intends to underline the experimentalism of both, focusing the search for an alternative type of h...

This brief essay was written for a collection on Anti-Americanism that was published after the invasion of Iraq. It discusses the history of Anti-Americanism in Latin America

110 It was a fancy California wedding party at a big Bay Area hotel. The groom’s family spoke Urdu, and the bride’s spoke Gujarati and Urdu. Both were practicing Muslims, but she was from southern California, sometimes regarded by northerners as too laid-back. The groom was attended by his two best friends from high school, one of Mexican-Jewish-An...

One of my favorite anthropological anecdotes is one Renato Rosaldo tells from his fieldwork among the Ilongots in the highland Philippines in the late 1960s. He was interviewing a very elderly woman about kinship and marriage and raised the topic of adultery. Did it ever happen, he wondered, that a married person became the lover of someone other t...

"No me interrumpas": las mujeres y el ensayo latinoamericano

Lucha-libros: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y sus críticos en el contexto norteamericano

Este ensayo reflexiona sobre la modernidad y sus otros, primero sobre uno de los múltiples ¿otros internos¿ de la modernidad, la mujer; y luego sobre lo que la modernidad construye como sus ¿otros externos¿, notablemente los pueblos no- europeos. La óptica es histórica, pero con dos premisas que tocan el presente: 1. que la globalización no es algo...

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