Gavin Arnall
Biographic Data
| ID | 136414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Arnall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnall |
| SIGNATURE | ARNALL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Antígonas
Winner of the 2024 American Comparative Literature Association René Wellek Prize for best book in the field, Moira Fradinger’s Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is an extraordinary achievement in archival research and scholarly rigor. The book assembles a corpus of almost eighty dramatic texts written between 1824 and 2015 that strategically “dismember” and “cannibalize” fragments of the Sophoclean Antigone myth insofar as they can be made us…
Capitalist Slavery and Its Afterlives
This essay enters into critical dialogue with Nick Nesbitt's The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022). It explores the original insights but also the blind spots of the book's interpretation of capitalist slavery, which hinges on a specific understanding of Karl Marx's value-form analysis and his monetary labor theory of value. Drawing inspiration from Frantz Fanon as well as more contemporary voices, the author arg…
The Many Tasks of the Marxist Translator
This article examines numerous conceptions of translation within the Marxist tradition. It begins with Antonio Gramsci’s theorisation of the concept before turning to the problem of Marxism in Latin America and how the Zapatistas have dealt with this problem. The aim is to shed light on a critical school of Marxist thinking, which requires that Marxism’s universalist claims be translated in response to changing historical conditions so that they …
The missed encounter of turupukllay
This article takes as its point of departure a discussion of José María Arguedas’s engagement with Marxism, the ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui and the journal Amauta . It argues that Arguedas’s distance from official party politics should not be confused with an abandonment of politics as such. It also underscores Arguedas’s reflections on the relationship between lived experience, socialist theory and literary writing. This sets the stage for a…
Latin American Marxisms
This review essay reads Mike Gonzalez’s In the Red Corner: The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui alongside Martín Cortés’s Translating Marx: José Aricó and the New Latin American Marxism
Remembering the Sixties
Remembering the Sixties: On Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch and Time Gavin Arnall Subjects that have long been investigated and appropriated by scholars need to be emancipated from the forms in which such scholarly acquisition took place, if they are still to have any value and any defined character today. – Walter Benjamin1 We live in times of remembrance.2 The past decade has been one of countless public gatherings and academic conferences, new edit…
Repeating Translation, Left and Right (and Left Again)
Research Article| November 01 2017 Repeating Translation, Left and Right (and Left Again): Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses and Distant Star Gavin Arnall Gavin Arnall University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Gavin Arnall is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his PhD and MA in comparative literature from Princeton University in New Jersey and h…
Aesthetics and Politics Revisited
Alejo Carpentier'sEl siglo de las luces
Alejo Carpentier's novel El siglo de las luces is a fictionalized account of how Enlightenment ideals traveled during the Age of Revolution, a meditation on how European, particularly French, ideas were transformed and implemented in new and unique contexts (e.g., Spain, Cuba, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Suriname). Carpentier thematizes the passage of ideas as a process of translation, both linguistically from French to Spanish, English, or…
The Many Tasks of the Marxist Translator
This article examines numerous conceptions of translation within the Marxist tradition. It begins with Antonio Gramsci’s theorisation of the concept before turning to the problem of Marxism in Latin America and how the Zapatistas have dealt with this problem. The aim is to shed light on a critical school of Marxist thinking, which requires that Marxism’s universalist claims be translated in response to changing historical conditions so that they …
Aesthetics and Politics Revisited
Aesthetics and Politics Revisited
Alejo Carpentier'sEl siglo de las luces
Alejo Carpentier's novel El siglo de las luces is a fictionalized account of how Enlightenment ideals traveled during the Age of Revolution, a meditation on how European, particularly French, ideas were transformed and implemented in new and unique contexts (e.g., Spain, Cuba, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Suriname). Carpentier thematizes the passage of ideas as a process of translation, both linguistically from French to Spanish, English, or…
Repeating Translation, Left and Right (and Left Again)
Research Article| November 01 2017 Repeating Translation, Left and Right (and Left Again): Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses and Distant Star Gavin Arnall Gavin Arnall University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Gavin Arnall is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his PhD and MA in comparative literature from Princeton University in New Jersey and h…
Remembering the Sixties
Remembering the Sixties: On Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch and Time Gavin Arnall Subjects that have long been investigated and appropriated by scholars need to be emancipated from the forms in which such scholarly acquisition took place, if they are still to have any value and any defined character today. – Walter Benjamin1 We live in times of remembrance.2 The past decade has been one of countless public gatherings and academic conferences, new edit…
The missed encounter of turupukllay
This article takes as its point of departure a discussion of José María Arguedas’s engagement with Marxism, the ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui and the journal Amauta . It argues that Arguedas’s distance from official party politics should not be confused with an abandonment of politics as such. It also underscores Arguedas’s reflections on the relationship between lived experience, socialist theory and literary writing. This sets the stage for a…
Latin American Marxisms
This review essay reads Mike Gonzalez’s In the Red Corner: The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui alongside Martín Cortés’s Translating Marx: José Aricó and the New Latin American Marxism
The Many Tasks of the Marxist Translator
This article examines numerous conceptions of translation within the Marxist tradition. It begins with Antonio Gramsci’s theorisation of the concept before turning to the problem of Marxism in Latin America and how the Zapatistas have dealt with this problem. The aim is to shed light on a critical school of Marxist thinking, which requires that Marxism’s universalist claims be translated in response to changing historical conditions so that they …
Capitalist Slavery and Its Afterlives
This essay enters into critical dialogue with Nick Nesbitt's The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022). It explores the original insights but also the blind spots of the book's interpretation of capitalist slavery, which hinges on a specific understanding of Karl Marx's value-form analysis and his monetary labor theory of value. Drawing inspiration from Frantz Fanon as well as more contemporary voices, the author arg…
Antígonas
Winner of the 2024 American Comparative Literature Association René Wellek Prize for best book in the field, Moira Fradinger’s Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is an extraordinary achievement in archival research and scholarly rigor. The book assembles a corpus of almost eighty dramatic texts written between 1824 and 2015 that strategically “dismember” and “cannibalize” fragments of the Sophoclean Antigone myth insofar as they can be made us…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art history (3 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (3 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works) · Law (3 works)