Sol Peláez
Biographic Data
| ID | 211994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sol Peláez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sol |
| FAMILY NAME | Peláez |
| SIGNATURE | PELÁEZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finitude and woman
This article explores the connection among woman, sex, and finitude. In stuying finitude, the argument follows the articulation of finitude with woman. In a first part, it discusses three “women” writers—Virginia Woolf, Simone De Beauvoir, and Hélène Cixous—to establish their thoughts on woman in terms of finitude. The three of them are identified as women and yet they problematized what to be a woman is. In tracing their thoughts on finitude and…
Invaluable Literature: Eustasio Rivera'sLa vorágine
Thinking from the 'Desamparo' inLos Incompletosby Sergio Chejfec
This essay explores the ontological dislocation of the nation and the world after the fall of the communist promise and the rise of the neoliberal market through a reading of Los incompletos (2004) by Sergio Chejfec. This novel denarrativizes the neoliberal fantasy of a free community of ‘global citizens’ beyond the nation-state's power. The promise of communism provided a beyond; it marked the ultimate limit of capitalism and, therefore, its tel…
Ungrounding the Nation: A Reading of Juan José Saer'sNobody Nothing Ever(Nadie nada nunca)
Research Article| March 01 2014 Ungrounding the Nation: A Reading of Juan José Saer's Nobody Nothing Ever (Nadie nada nunca) Sol Peláez Sol Peláez Mississippi State University SOL PELÁEZ is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Mississippi State University. Her current research concentrates on twentieth-century and twenty-firstcentury Latin American literature to think the articulation of viole…
On the World: My Desperation as a Writer
On the World: "My Desperation as a Writer" Sol Peláez (bio) The Aleph Today It has been said that for Jorge Luis Borges the world becomes unreal, a dream, and an illusion. 1According to Maurice Blanchot, Borges experiences "infinity through literature," and "if the world is a book [and] each book is the world . . . there is nothing on which to rely. The world and the book eternally and infinitely mirror their own reflected images" (1982, 223). Th…
Thinking from the 'Desamparo' inLos Incompletosby Sergio Chejfec
This essay explores the ontological dislocation of the nation and the world after the fall of the communist promise and the rise of the neoliberal market through a reading of Los incompletos (2004) by Sergio Chejfec. This novel denarrativizes the neoliberal fantasy of a free community of ‘global citizens’ beyond the nation-state's power. The promise of communism provided a beyond; it marked the ultimate limit of capitalism and, therefore, its tel…
Ungrounding the Nation: A Reading of Juan José Saer'sNobody Nothing Ever(Nadie nada nunca)
Research Article| March 01 2014 Ungrounding the Nation: A Reading of Juan José Saer's Nobody Nothing Ever (Nadie nada nunca) Sol Peláez Sol Peláez Mississippi State University SOL PELÁEZ is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Mississippi State University. Her current research concentrates on twentieth-century and twenty-firstcentury Latin American literature to think the articulation of viole…
On the World: My Desperation as a Writer
On the World: "My Desperation as a Writer" Sol Peláez (bio) The Aleph Today It has been said that for Jorge Luis Borges the world becomes unreal, a dream, and an illusion. 1According to Maurice Blanchot, Borges experiences "infinity through literature," and "if the world is a book [and] each book is the world . . . there is nothing on which to rely. The world and the book eternally and infinitely mirror their own reflected images" (1982, 223). Th…
Ungrounding the Nation: A Reading of Juan José Saer'sNobody Nothing Ever(Nadie nada nunca)
Research Article| March 01 2014 Ungrounding the Nation: A Reading of Juan José Saer's Nobody Nothing Ever (Nadie nada nunca) Sol Peláez Sol Peláez Mississippi State University SOL PELÁEZ is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Mississippi State University. Her current research concentrates on twentieth-century and twenty-firstcentury Latin American literature to think the articulation of viole…
Invaluable Literature: Eustasio Rivera'sLa vorágine
Thinking from the 'Desamparo' inLos Incompletosby Sergio Chejfec
This essay explores the ontological dislocation of the nation and the world after the fall of the communist promise and the rise of the neoliberal market through a reading of Los incompletos (2004) by Sergio Chejfec. This novel denarrativizes the neoliberal fantasy of a free community of ‘global citizens’ beyond the nation-state's power. The promise of communism provided a beyond; it marked the ultimate limit of capitalism and, therefore, its tel…
Finitude and woman
This article explores the connection among woman, sex, and finitude. In stuying finitude, the argument follows the articulation of finitude with woman. In a first part, it discusses three “women” writers—Virginia Woolf, Simone De Beauvoir, and Hélène Cixous—to establish their thoughts on woman in terms of finitude. The three of them are identified as women and yet they problematized what to be a woman is. In tracing their thoughts on finitude and…
Art (5 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez (2 works) · Nothing (2 works)