Marcy Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcy Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcy |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers The State University of New JerseyRutgers The State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8641-087X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gathering Stories for Community Action
In October 2021, the International Autobiography Association Chapter of the Americas (IABAA) presented an online conference "Stories of Change, Stories for Change," co-hosted by IABAA and the Faculty of Arts Signature Area "Stories of Change" at the University of Alberta (Canada). The conference featured speakers from across the Americas on autobiographical storytelling. The plenary panel for the conference featured four scholars in North America…
From News from the Month of May
The Spaces and Places of Knowledge
The Spaces and Places of Knowledge:Sara Castro-Klarén, Cultural Studies Pioneer Marcy Schwartz It is an honor to contribute to this homage to Sara Castro-Klarén: scholar, teacher, mentor, and innovative leader in the field. Castro-Klarén's work is wide ranging, and has had a profound impact on Peruvian literature (particularly José María Arguedas and Mario Vargas Llosa), feminist criticism, colonial studies, and Latin American Cultural Studies. A…
Dissensual Subjects
Reviewed by: Dissensual Subjects: Memory, Human Rights, and Postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay by Andrew C. Rajca Marcy Schwartz Rajca, Andrew C. Dissensual Subjects: Memory, Human Rights, and Postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Northwestern UP, 2018. Just after the economic and political crisis in Argentina in 2001–2002, a network of neighborhood groups emerged that took on governing themselves in the absence of a…
Reading on Wheels
In the past fifteen years, many Latin American cities have sponsored programs that promote reading through their city’s public transportation systems. This article analyzes two of these programs, Libro al Viento in Bogotá, Colombia, and Santiago en 100 Palabras in Santiago, Chile, framed with examples from Buenos Aires, Argentina. These programs insert stories into public space to enhance social interaction and develop a positive sense of local b…
Borges and Translation
Reviewed by: Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery Marcy E. Schwartz Sergio Waisman. Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005. 267 pp. Sergio Waisman offers both detailed textual analysis and theoretical elaboration in his comprehensive study of Jorge Luis Borges's relationship with translation. According to Waisman, it is through translation that readers may understand Borges's…
Killer Books
Aníbal González's Killer Books is an intriguing and often gripping study. A translation into English of his Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna (Siglo XXI, 2001), Killer Books offers an intellectual and philosophical history of writing and violence in Spanish America. He traces from classical and Biblical examples through the history of Hispanic letters what he calls "graphophobia," a condition that g…
Voice-Overs
Voice-Overs: and Latin American Literature. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. 266 pages.Despite the increase in critical writings on translation in the last twenty-some years, there is still much uncertainty in the profession over what, exactly, translation studies can encompass. Voice-Overs, edited by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz, goes a long way towards illustrating the potential of studying translation,…
Writing Paris
Writing Paris
Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. By Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xiii + 182 pp. While this first book by Rutgers University professor Marcy Schwartz has much to recommend it, it is also an object lesson in the pitfalls of academic publishing. Schwartz's topic is a rich one with a substantial presence in Latin American letters: Paris as a bohemian Mecca, yearned-for dest…
Jorge Luis Borges
MLN - Volume 110, Number 2, March 1995 (Hispanic Issue)
Voice-Overs
Voice-Overs: and Latin American Literature. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. 266 pages.Despite the increase in critical writings on translation in the last twenty-some years, there is still much uncertainty in the profession over what, exactly, translation studies can encompass. Voice-Overs, edited by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz, goes a long way towards illustrating the potential of studying translation,…
Writing Paris
Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. By Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xiii + 182 pp. While this first book by Rutgers University professor Marcy Schwartz has much to recommend it, it is also an object lesson in the pitfalls of academic publishing. Schwartz's topic is a rich one with a substantial presence in Latin American letters: Paris as a bohemian Mecca, yearned-for dest…
Jorge Luis Borges
MLN - Volume 110, Number 2, March 1995 (Hispanic Issue)
Writing Paris
Writing Paris
Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. By Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xiii + 182 pp. While this first book by Rutgers University professor Marcy Schwartz has much to recommend it, it is also an object lesson in the pitfalls of academic publishing. Schwartz's topic is a rich one with a substantial presence in Latin American letters: Paris as a bohemian Mecca, yearned-for dest…
Killer Books
Aníbal González's Killer Books is an intriguing and often gripping study. A translation into English of his Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna (Siglo XXI, 2001), Killer Books offers an intellectual and philosophical history of writing and violence in Spanish America. He traces from classical and Biblical examples through the history of Hispanic letters what he calls "graphophobia," a condition that g…
Voice-Overs
Voice-Overs: and Latin American Literature. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. 266 pages.Despite the increase in critical writings on translation in the last twenty-some years, there is still much uncertainty in the profession over what, exactly, translation studies can encompass. Voice-Overs, edited by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz, goes a long way towards illustrating the potential of studying translation,…
Borges and Translation
Reviewed by: Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery Marcy E. Schwartz Sergio Waisman. Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005. 267 pp. Sergio Waisman offers both detailed textual analysis and theoretical elaboration in his comprehensive study of Jorge Luis Borges's relationship with translation. According to Waisman, it is through translation that readers may understand Borges's…
Reading on Wheels
In the past fifteen years, many Latin American cities have sponsored programs that promote reading through their city’s public transportation systems. This article analyzes two of these programs, Libro al Viento in Bogotá, Colombia, and Santiago en 100 Palabras in Santiago, Chile, framed with examples from Buenos Aires, Argentina. These programs insert stories into public space to enhance social interaction and develop a positive sense of local b…
Dissensual Subjects
Reviewed by: Dissensual Subjects: Memory, Human Rights, and Postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay by Andrew C. Rajca Marcy Schwartz Rajca, Andrew C. Dissensual Subjects: Memory, Human Rights, and Postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Northwestern UP, 2018. Just after the economic and political crisis in Argentina in 2001–2002, a network of neighborhood groups emerged that took on governing themselves in the absence of a…
From News from the Month of May
The Spaces and Places of Knowledge
The Spaces and Places of Knowledge:Sara Castro-Klarén, Cultural Studies Pioneer Marcy Schwartz It is an honor to contribute to this homage to Sara Castro-Klarén: scholar, teacher, mentor, and innovative leader in the field. Castro-Klarén's work is wide ranging, and has had a profound impact on Peruvian literature (particularly José María Arguedas and Mario Vargas Llosa), feminist criticism, colonial studies, and Latin American Cultural Studies. A…
Gathering Stories for Community Action
In October 2021, the International Autobiography Association Chapter of the Americas (IABAA) presented an online conference "Stories of Change, Stories for Change," co-hosted by IABAA and the Faculty of Arts Signature Area "Stories of Change" at the University of Alberta (Canada). The conference featured speakers from across the Americas on autobiographical storytelling. The plenary panel for the conference featured four scholars in North America…
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