D Sommer
Biographic Data
| ID | 10818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Sommer |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sommer |
| SIGNATURE | SOMMER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5327-8060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“I didn’t choose water. Water chose me”: India’s water crisis, graphic novel, and Sarnath Banerjee, an interview
This Google Meet interview with the graphic novelist and illustrator Sarnath Banerjee features a discussion on the potential of graphic narratives to document scientific data of the climate crisis and transform them into compelling narratives with particular reference to his All Quiet in Vikaspuri (2015). Banerjee describes his creative process and thoughts on the choice of form, genre, and medium that went into creating All Quiet in Vikaspuri. B…
Doubt: On Sparring and Sociability
What good are the humanities?" To practical people who ask this question, my answer will sound paradoxical: The humanities are good for training a taste for doubt. All research starts with doubt, but mostly to resolve it. Humanists don't care as much about answers as about the activity of thinking. They let doubt linger and invite interpretation, conversation, reflection, human contact. The humanities promote sociability and support democracy. If…
Bored and spoiling for a flight: Capabilities lost and found in lockdown
Human beings are dynamic; our innate faculties beg to engage in activities. To achieve fullness and human dignity, people "convert" personal capabilities into active "functionings," Amartya Sen explains. This means that staying still is not a normal state. It can feel like punishment. Forced inactivity will generate resentment, resistance, and boredom that can fester until pent-up energy explodes violently, or implodes in depression. Boredom defa…
Estudios afrolatinoamericanos: Una Introducción
Título original: Afro-Latin American Studies. 1a ed.: Cambridge : Cambridege Uhiversity Press, 2018. Este libro tiene el objetivo de introducir al lector en un campo dinámico y en expansión como es el de los estudios afrolatinoamericanos. Definimos este campo, en primer lugar, como un estudio de la población de ascendencia africana en América Latina y, en segundo lugar, como el estudio de las sociedades en las que vive dicha población. En relació…
Schiller and Company, or How Habermas Incites Us to Play
Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794) is worth re-reading today from the troubled fronts of politics and pedagogy. 1 While our government claims to defend democracy by waging war abroad and creating immigration crises at home, we might remember Schiller's concern about the French Revolution running headstrong behind reason into "barbarism" as it toppled one state in its enthusiasm for another.Specters of that abstract and un…
The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America
The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Ed. Doris Sommer. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. 310 pages. This skillfully edited volume features a series of short, highly experimental, thought-provoking, and groundbreaking critical essays by some of the most distinctive and progressive voices in the field of Hispanic Studies. Its range of topics is broad and embraces minor and major genres, a good regional representation, as well as tran…
The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design
About-Face: The Talker Turns
At Home Abroad: El Inca Shuttles with Hebreo
Grammar Trouble: Cortazar's Critique of Competence
From the opening lines in Pursuer (1959), Julio Cortazar's narrator seems uneasy.' Bruno is a jazz critic, respected among Parisian publishers and academics, but surprisingly out of phase from the very beginning of his story.2 By contrast, the disarmingly lucid character here is a drug-dependent saxophonist who stands in for Charlie Parker. Any jazz buff would recognize him from the biographical dates and details that follow, and maybe even from …
Brute New World: The Rediscovery of Latin America in the Early Nineteenth Century
Taking a Life: Hot Pursuit and Cold Rewards in a Mexican Testimonial Novel
Resistant Texts and Incompetent Readers
Debate
Debate
Antonio Melis, Cynthia Steele, Martin Lienhard, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Doris Sommer, Julio Ramos, Antonio Benitez Rojo, Mary-Louise Pratt, Debate, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 19, No. 38 (1993), pp. 261-266
Cecilia no sabe, o los bloqueos que blanquean
Foundational Fictions. The National Romances of Latin America
Debate
Julio Ramos, Sonia Mattalia, Antonio Benitez Rojo, Doris Sommer, Martin Lienhard, Beatriz Pastor, Ineke Phaf, Leticia Reyes, Debate, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 19, No. 38 (1993), pp. 217-221
Sin secretos
Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance
Since Paul de Man's widely influential writings on allegory, we tend to approach this double figure at its inviolably empty core, that irreducible distance across which language seems to strain toward unachievable meaning. The distance is what keeps words and their referents in a parallel, allegorical suspension. In early essays and especially in the later Allegories of Reading,1 de Man made no secret of his principal debt to Nietzsche for this f…
No secrets: Rigoberta's Guarded truth
(1991). No secrets: Rigoberta's Guarded truth. Women's Studies: Vol. 20, Women's Autobiographies, pp. 51-72
Rigoberta's Secrets
It is surprising, think, to come continually to passages in Rigoberta Menchu's testimonial where she purposely withholds information. Of course the audible protests of silence may well be responses to anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos-Debray's line of questioning. If she were not asking particular questions, the Quiche informant would logically have no reason to refuse answers. From the introduction to Me liamo Rigoberta Menchu (1983), we know that…
Love and Country in Latin America: An Allegorical Speculation
used to ask myself why the national novels of Latin America are all love stories-I mean books like Amalia (Argentina, 1851), Martin Rivas (Chile, 1862), Maria (Colombia, 1867), 0 guarani (Brazil, 1857), Sab (Cuba, 1841), and Cumandd (Ecuador, 1879), a canon institutionalized by public schools and by now indistinguishable from patriotic histories. An easy answer, of course, is that nineteenth-century novels were all love stories in Latin America, …
America as desire(D): Nathaniel Tarn's poetry of the outsider as insider
Supplying Demand: Walt Whitman as the Liberal Self
(1986). Supplying demand: Walt Whitman as the liberal self. New Political Science: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 39-61
Rigoberta's Secrets
It is surprising, think, to come continually to passages in Rigoberta Menchu's testimonial where she purposely withholds information. Of course the audible protests of silence may well be responses to anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos-Debray's line of questioning. If she were not asking particular questions, the Quiche informant would logically have no reason to refuse answers. From the introduction to Me liamo Rigoberta Menchu (1983), we know that…
Resistant Texts and Incompetent Readers
No secrets: Rigoberta's Guarded truth
(1991). No secrets: Rigoberta's Guarded truth. Women's Studies: Vol. 20, Women's Autobiographies, pp. 51-72
Taking a Life: Hot Pursuit and Cold Rewards in a Mexican Testimonial Novel
Love and Country in Latin America: An Allegorical Speculation
used to ask myself why the national novels of Latin America are all love stories-I mean books like Amalia (Argentina, 1851), Martin Rivas (Chile, 1862), Maria (Colombia, 1867), 0 guarani (Brazil, 1857), Sab (Cuba, 1841), and Cumandd (Ecuador, 1879), a canon institutionalized by public schools and by now indistinguishable from patriotic histories. An easy answer, of course, is that nineteenth-century novels were all love stories in Latin America, …
About-Face: The Talker Turns
Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance
Since Paul de Man's widely influential writings on allegory, we tend to approach this double figure at its inviolably empty core, that irreducible distance across which language seems to strain toward unachievable meaning. The distance is what keeps words and their referents in a parallel, allegorical suspension. In early essays and especially in the later Allegories of Reading,1 de Man made no secret of his principal debt to Nietzsche for this f…
Supplying Demand: Walt Whitman as the Liberal Self
(1986). Supplying demand: Walt Whitman as the liberal self. New Political Science: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 39-61
El otro Enriquillo
Playing to Lose: Cortázar's Comforting Pessimism
Populism as Rhetoric: The Case of the Dominican Republic
The main reason for the difficulty in defining populism in Spanish America is that the term describes the general political life of the region, not a particular ideology or movement. Spanish American politics is, then, best understood as a complex of varied and competing forms of populism which I am interpreting to mean the cultural framework for very different ideologies. And instead of being identifiable by or synonymous with any particular pol…
El otro Enriquillo
One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels
America as desire(D): Nathaniel Tarn's poetry of the outsider as insider
Supplying Demand: Walt Whitman as the Liberal Self
(1986). Supplying demand: Walt Whitman as the liberal self. New Political Science: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 39-61
El romance como politica
Love and Country in Latin America: An Allegorical Speculation
used to ask myself why the national novels of Latin America are all love stories-I mean books like Amalia (Argentina, 1851), Martin Rivas (Chile, 1862), Maria (Colombia, 1867), 0 guarani (Brazil, 1857), Sab (Cuba, 1841), and Cumandd (Ecuador, 1879), a canon institutionalized by public schools and by now indistinguishable from patriotic histories. An easy answer, of course, is that nineteenth-century novels were all love stories in Latin America, …
Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance
Since Paul de Man's widely influential writings on allegory, we tend to approach this double figure at its inviolably empty core, that irreducible distance across which language seems to strain toward unachievable meaning. The distance is what keeps words and their referents in a parallel, allegorical suspension. In early essays and especially in the later Allegories of Reading,1 de Man made no secret of his principal debt to Nietzsche for this f…
No secrets: Rigoberta's Guarded truth
(1991). No secrets: Rigoberta's Guarded truth. Women's Studies: Vol. 20, Women's Autobiographies, pp. 51-72
Rigoberta's Secrets
It is surprising, think, to come continually to passages in Rigoberta Menchu's testimonial where she purposely withholds information. Of course the audible protests of silence may well be responses to anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos-Debray's line of questioning. If she were not asking particular questions, the Quiche informant would logically have no reason to refuse answers. From the introduction to Me liamo Rigoberta Menchu (1983), we know that…
Sin secretos
Debate
Debate
Antonio Melis, Cynthia Steele, Martin Lienhard, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Doris Sommer, Julio Ramos, Antonio Benitez Rojo, Mary-Louise Pratt, Debate, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 19, No. 38 (1993), pp. 261-266
Cecilia no sabe, o los bloqueos que blanquean
Foundational Fictions. The National Romances of Latin America
Debate
Julio Ramos, Sonia Mattalia, Antonio Benitez Rojo, Doris Sommer, Martin Lienhard, Beatriz Pastor, Ineke Phaf, Leticia Reyes, Debate, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 19, No. 38 (1993), pp. 217-221
Resistant Texts and Incompetent Readers
Grammar Trouble: Cortazar's Critique of Competence
From the opening lines in Pursuer (1959), Julio Cortazar's narrator seems uneasy.' Bruno is a jazz critic, respected among Parisian publishers and academics, but surprisingly out of phase from the very beginning of his story.2 By contrast, the disarmingly lucid character here is a drug-dependent saxophonist who stands in for Charlie Parker. Any jazz buff would recognize him from the biographical dates and details that follow, and maybe even from …
Brute New World: The Rediscovery of Latin America in the Early Nineteenth Century
Taking a Life: Hot Pursuit and Cold Rewards in a Mexican Testimonial Novel
About-Face: The Talker Turns
At Home Abroad: El Inca Shuttles with Hebreo
The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design
The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America
The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Ed. Doris Sommer. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. 310 pages. This skillfully edited volume features a series of short, highly experimental, thought-provoking, and groundbreaking critical essays by some of the most distinctive and progressive voices in the field of Hispanic Studies. Its range of topics is broad and embraces minor and major genres, a good regional representation, as well as tran…
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