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Juan E De Castro

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Literary critic and professor.

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I guess he did go quietly into that good night!

24.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is it the case that there is a (Bob) Dylan Review but not a Dylan (Thomas) Review? In this case, we have the answer to Michelle Pfeiffer's comparison of Dylan vs Dylan in Dangerous Minds (1995).

24.02.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Iced tea?

20.12.2025 23:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

EfraΓ­n was one of my professors while he visited USC. His teaching, his books on Vargas Llosa, Borges, and Peruvian indigenismo, and his masterful essays, in particularly, "Considering Coldly . . ." (in New Left Review 15, 2002), have left a. profound influence on my writing. He will be missed.

16.11.2025 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's great. (I just taught it in class and students loved it). But is it as characteristic a film noir as "Out of the Past"?

05.11.2025 14:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But getting on the Black Cat's naughty list might get you flayed!

08.10.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe its the start of your anti-British body horror novel.

22.07.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bread and Beauty A definitive reevaluation of the relationship between culture and politics in the thought of Peruvian socialist JosΓ© Carlos MariΓ‘tegui.

My book on JosΓ© Carlos MariΓ‘tegui is currently on sale.

14.07.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A huge thank you for @juanedecastro.bsky.social for his time and unlimited knowledge on Gabriel GarcΓ­a Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and sharing it with us on the Colombia Calling podcast.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

29.04.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks so much for having me over. It was a lot of fun!

30.04.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be a pleasure--though I have to be honest, I haven't watched the Netflix GGM adaptation. (If you feel that's important, I could give, the first couple of episodes, a look).

15.04.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New release on Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues! πŸ“– This volume by @marcoramirezrojas.bsky.social and JosΓ© Carlos DΓ­az Zanelli comprehensively examines key issues such as translatability, geographical imaginaries & editorial networks.

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

03.03.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America: Reading John Beverley (with a Detour through Antonio Cornejo Polar) - Forma

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...

25.02.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess it's an example of transculturation.

22.02.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mexican? Buffalo wings and pizza?

22.02.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

Wordling Latin America: Corpus, Praxis, and Global Networks, edited by Marco RamΓ­rez Rojas and JosΓ© Carlos Zanelli is available. Proud to have my "JosΓ© Carlos MariΓ‘tegui: Eurocentrism, Indigeneity, the Avant-Garde, and World Literature" included in the anthology:
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

21.02.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Β‘Gracias!

11.02.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No, no las habΓ­a visto.

11.02.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At first I read Brigadoon instead of High Noon and was a bit surprised.

04.02.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

Worldling Latin America edited by Marco RamΓ­rez Rojas and JosΓ© Carlos DΓ­az Zanelli is up on Google Books. Proud that my "JosΓ© Carlos MariΓ‘tegui: Eurocentrism, Indigeneity, the Avant-Garde and World Literature" is included in this important critical anthology.
books.google.com/books?id=afQ...

20.01.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LREZ also sung in Spanish, but I think Nasty Sex is their best known song.

15.01.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s great! Also part of the Y tu mamΓ‘ tambiΓ©n soundtrack.

15.01.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But how can you not approve of this song?

15.01.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ConfΓ­o que mencione a las momias de los incas

13.01.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Este aΓ±o fallecieron dos de mis crΓ­ticos mΓ‘s admirados: primero, Fredric Jameson, y, ahora, Beariz Sarlo. Para mΓ­, su Borges, un escritor en las orillas y Escenas de la vida posmoderna son obras claves.

18.12.2024 14:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bread and Beauty A definitive reevaluation of the relationship between culture and politics in the thought of Peruvian socialist JosΓ© Carlos MariΓ‘tegui.

My book Bread and Beauty is 40% off ($18) as part of the sale at Haymarket Books .
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1752-b...

09.12.2024 15:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect book 20--Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea--is biographically/chronologically book 1.

05.12.2024 14:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems that my institution--and my colleagues--are joyfully embracing AI.

15.11.2024 12:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Β‘Gracias!

01.10.2024 22:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

28.09.2024 17:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0