Ricardo Lobato‐ortiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3454551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ricardo Lobato‐ortiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ricardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Lobato‐ortiz |
| SIGNATURE | ORTÍZ R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0944-165X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Burning X's
Research Article| September 01 2020 Burning X’s: Critical Futurities within Latinx Studies’ Disidentifying Present Ricardo L. Ortiz Ricardo L. Ortiz Ricardo L. Ortiz is chair and associate professor of Latinx literature and culture in the Department of English at Georgetown University. Ortiz’s first book, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America was published in 2007; his second book, Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event was published in…
Latinx Literature Now
"Queer" en Latin
This essay reviews three scholarly works of queer-inflected US Chican@ and Latin@ studies that appeared in 2009 and 2010. The projects range in disciplinary approach from cultural studies (Rodríguez) to literary studies (Soto) to performance studies (Gutiérrez), but the review situates them on the common ground of a critical, interdisciplinary (queer) "humanities" methodology that continues to test its efficacy in accounting for ongoing processes…
Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
On (Our) American Ground
“On (Our) American Ground” traces the relevant genealogies, and itineraries, of a song and a site whose various symbolic and practical constructions have helped to determine what a transnational American historical past can allow us to imagine of a postnational American future. The song “Guantanamera” is a quasi-officially Cuban cultural and national artifact, though in fact its history of composition, performance, and recording reveals it to be …
Clean, and
The Last Angry Brown Hat. By Alfredo Ramos. George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC. 3 October 1999
Cafe, Culpa and Capital
Café, Culpa and Capital: Nostalgic Addictions of Cuban Exile Ricardo L. Ortíz (bio) Prologue: an anecdote over coffee David Rieff opens The Exile, his study of “Cuba in the Heart of Miami,” with a chapter that combines an archetypal formulation of the expectation of a general return with anecdotal details of specific recent voyages back to Cuba on the part of various Cuban exiles. 1 In many ways Rieff’s work in The Exile demands this precarious b…
Sexuality Degree Zero
Sexuality Degree Zero" explores common themes and formal strategies in the fiction of three prominent gay Chicano writers: John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava. Employing the concept of a politicized textual "pleasure" as theorized by French critic Roland Barthes, the study argues for the political efficacy of aesthetic choices characteristic to the three authors. Analyses of Rechy's use of pornography, of Islas' transgressive use of cultur…
Sexuality Degree Zero
Sexuality Degree Zero" explores common themes and formal strategies in the fiction of three prominent gay Chicano writers: John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava. Employing the concept of a politicized textual "pleasure" as theorized by French critic Roland Barthes, the study argues for the political efficacy of aesthetic choices characteristic to the three authors. Analyses of Rechy's use of pornography, of Islas' transgressive use of cultur…
Sexuality Degree Zero
Sexuality Degree Zero" explores common themes and formal strategies in the fiction of three prominent gay Chicano writers: John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava. Employing the concept of a politicized textual "pleasure" as theorized by French critic Roland Barthes, the study argues for the political efficacy of aesthetic choices characteristic to the three authors. Analyses of Rechy's use of pornography, of Islas' transgressive use of cultur…
Cafe, Culpa and Capital
Café, Culpa and Capital: Nostalgic Addictions of Cuban Exile Ricardo L. Ortíz (bio) Prologue: an anecdote over coffee David Rieff opens The Exile, his study of “Cuba in the Heart of Miami,” with a chapter that combines an archetypal formulation of the expectation of a general return with anecdotal details of specific recent voyages back to Cuba on the part of various Cuban exiles. 1 In many ways Rieff’s work in The Exile demands this precarious b…
Clean, and
The Last Angry Brown Hat. By Alfredo Ramos. George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC. 3 October 1999
On (Our) American Ground
“On (Our) American Ground” traces the relevant genealogies, and itineraries, of a song and a site whose various symbolic and practical constructions have helped to determine what a transnational American historical past can allow us to imagine of a postnational American future. The song “Guantanamera” is a quasi-officially Cuban cultural and national artifact, though in fact its history of composition, performance, and recording reveals it to be …
Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
"Queer" en Latin
This essay reviews three scholarly works of queer-inflected US Chican@ and Latin@ studies that appeared in 2009 and 2010. The projects range in disciplinary approach from cultural studies (Rodríguez) to literary studies (Soto) to performance studies (Gutiérrez), but the review situates them on the common ground of a critical, interdisciplinary (queer) "humanities" methodology that continues to test its efficacy in accounting for ongoing processes…
Latinx Literature Now
Burning X's
Research Article| September 01 2020 Burning X’s: Critical Futurities within Latinx Studies’ Disidentifying Present Ricardo L. Ortiz Ricardo L. Ortiz Ricardo L. Ortiz is chair and associate professor of Latinx literature and culture in the Department of English at Georgetown University. Ortiz’s first book, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America was published in 2007; his second book, Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event was published in…
Latin American and Latino Studies (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works)