Eric Prieto
Biographic Data
| ID | 763032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Prieto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Prieto |
| SIGNATURE | PRIETO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9023-0798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance: Cities Under Stress
Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction, written by Stanka Radović
Rethinking Aimé Césaire: Presentation
This essay introduces the central themes of "Rethinking Césaire," a special section of Small Axe, which gravitate in metacritical fashion around the various efforts to refashion Aimé Césaire's legacy in and around 2013, the centenary of his birth. Included are essays devoted to Césaire's poetic legacy, his theory of Negritude, his relationship to Marxism, and his intellectual partnership with his wife, Suzanne Césaire. What emerges is a sense of …
Koffi Kwahulé’s Coltranean Theatre of Cruelty
Any study of Koffi Kwahule’s theatre must grapple with the problem of bad taste. Kwahule’s plays typically dwell on outrageous themes, ranging from rape and incest to infanticide and cannibalism, which might seem to be chosen only for their shock value. This thematic provocation is matched on the formal level by scripts and stagings that disregard the established norms of proportion, economy, discretion, and narrative structure, and that prefer t…
Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place
Place after Postcolonial Studies
Implied in the title of this chapter are two symmetrically related questions. First, how has our understanding of place changed since the advent of postcolonial studies? That is, what do the central themes and methodologies of postcolonial studies contribute to the theory of place? Second, to what extent has it become necessary today to move beyond postcolonial approaches to the study of place? This second, more controversial question is motivate…
Mimesis & Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Reviewed by: Mimesis & Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005 Eric Prieto Girard, René. Mimesis & Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005. Edited and with an introduction by Robert Doran. Stanford UP, 2008. 310pp. The 2008 publication of Mimesis & Theory, a collection of previously published essays by René Girard on literature and literary theory, confirms the impression that Girard’s career has entered its valedictor…
Speech Melody and the Evolution of the Minimalist Aesthetic in Steve Reich’s The Cave
This paper seeks to explain Reich's use of the "speech melody" technique in his video opera The Cave in terms of the minimalist reliance on impersonal processes and the economical use of musical material. For this piece Reich uses digitally sampled speech fragments with an emphatic melodic contour as the basis for composition. These speech melodies provide the primary building blocks out of which the work is constructed. Because the musical mater…
Swung Subjectivity in Jacques Réda
This article uses Jacques Réda's theory of poetic swing to show how the traditional metrical analysis of poetic rhythm might be updated to better reflect the rhythmic intricacies of contemporary French literary language. It begins by situating Jacques Réda's rhythmic practices with respect to the deconstructive theories of rhythm and subjectivity espoused by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Henri Meschonnic. Using the concept of swing, Réda seeks to …
Edouard Glissant, Littérature-monde, and Tout-monde
To someone who studies the Caribbean, a striking feature of the 2007 Littérature-monde manifesto is its deep debt to the thought of one of its most prestigious signatories: Edouard Glissant. The very title of the manifesto hints at this influence, through its use of the hyphenated "littérature-monde" formulation, which echoes many of Glissant's coinages. Given the close parentage between Glissant's thought and the Littérature-monde project, it se…
Paris à l'improviste: Jacques Réda, Jazz, and Sub-Urban Beauty
Paris à l’improviste: Jacques Réda, Jazz, and Sub-Urban Beauty Eric Prieto (bio) Jacques Réda is best known as a poet of place, remarkable precisely for his interest in the unremarkable and his compelling descriptions of nondescript places, the kind that most of us traverse unseeingly in our day-to-day lives. He has also led a notable second career as a jazz critic, having written extensively on the music and its history. The relationship between…
Musical Imprints and Mimetic Echoes in Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Musical Imprints and Mimetic Echoes in Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Eric Prieto Oddly, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's sole book devoted entirely to a musical subject opens with what appears to be an egregious error, its title, which is explained in the following way: Depuis la fin de la Renaissance [...] la musique occidentale, pour trois siècles au moins, se sera principalement définie comme musica ficta. Et même l'École de Vienne, mis à part peut-être …
Rhetoric of the Belleville novel
A Musical Model of Mind: Listening in: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative
Ethnography, improvisation, and the Archimedean fulcrum
Michel Leiris’s ongoing fascination with jazz music is instructive for several reasons. His initial encounters with jazz played an important catalytic role for his ethnographic project, sparking the interest in ‘l’art nègre’ that would eventually lead him to Africa, and setting him on a search for an Archimedean vantage point: one able to gain insight into different forms of cultural production by attempting to place itself outside of all existin…
Discours sur le metissage, identites metisses: En quete d'Ariel (review)
Can rabbits have interracial sex? This question, posed in the title of Werner Sollors's contribution to Discours sur le métissage, could serve as a screening question for potential readers of the book. The progressive (or politically-correct) but too-hasty reader, making the cognitive jump from rabbits to humans, might respond heatedly that yes, rabbits, like humans, should be allowed to have sex with the partner of their choice, regardless of ra…
Discours sur le metissage, identites metisses: En quete d'Ariel
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
What is the most pressing question facing post-colonial writers today? For Chris Bongie it is that of knowing: "Who can speak for and/or as the Other?" (287). This question might be formulated other ways, and Bongie is the first to admit how problematic such terms as "Other" can be, especially when used in locutions about speaking as the Other. But by placing this question, with all the problems that it implies, at the heart of his book, Bongie m…
Poetics of Relation
Ethnography, improvisation, and the Archimedean fulcrum
Michel Leiris’s ongoing fascination with jazz music is instructive for several reasons. His initial encounters with jazz played an important catalytic role for his ethnographic project, sparking the interest in ‘l’art nègre’ that would eventually lead him to Africa, and setting him on a search for an Archimedean vantage point: one able to gain insight into different forms of cultural production by attempting to place itself outside of all existin…
Poetics of Relation
Discours sur le metissage, identites metisses: En quete d'Ariel (review)
Can rabbits have interracial sex? This question, posed in the title of Werner Sollors's contribution to Discours sur le métissage, could serve as a screening question for potential readers of the book. The progressive (or politically-correct) but too-hasty reader, making the cognitive jump from rabbits to humans, might respond heatedly that yes, rabbits, like humans, should be allowed to have sex with the partner of their choice, regardless of ra…
Discours sur le metissage, identites metisses: En quete d'Ariel
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature
What is the most pressing question facing post-colonial writers today? For Chris Bongie it is that of knowing: "Who can speak for and/or as the Other?" (287). This question might be formulated other ways, and Bongie is the first to admit how problematic such terms as "Other" can be, especially when used in locutions about speaking as the Other. But by placing this question, with all the problems that it implies, at the heart of his book, Bongie m…
Ethnography, improvisation, and the Archimedean fulcrum
Michel Leiris’s ongoing fascination with jazz music is instructive for several reasons. His initial encounters with jazz played an important catalytic role for his ethnographic project, sparking the interest in ‘l’art nègre’ that would eventually lead him to Africa, and setting him on a search for an Archimedean vantage point: one able to gain insight into different forms of cultural production by attempting to place itself outside of all existin…
Rhetoric of the Belleville novel
A Musical Model of Mind: Listening in: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative
Musical Imprints and Mimetic Echoes in Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Musical Imprints and Mimetic Echoes in Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Eric Prieto Oddly, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's sole book devoted entirely to a musical subject opens with what appears to be an egregious error, its title, which is explained in the following way: Depuis la fin de la Renaissance [...] la musique occidentale, pour trois siècles au moins, se sera principalement définie comme musica ficta. Et même l'École de Vienne, mis à part peut-être …
Paris à l'improviste: Jacques Réda, Jazz, and Sub-Urban Beauty
Paris à l’improviste: Jacques Réda, Jazz, and Sub-Urban Beauty Eric Prieto (bio) Jacques Réda is best known as a poet of place, remarkable precisely for his interest in the unremarkable and his compelling descriptions of nondescript places, the kind that most of us traverse unseeingly in our day-to-day lives. He has also led a notable second career as a jazz critic, having written extensively on the music and its history. The relationship between…
Speech Melody and the Evolution of the Minimalist Aesthetic in Steve Reich’s The Cave
This paper seeks to explain Reich's use of the "speech melody" technique in his video opera The Cave in terms of the minimalist reliance on impersonal processes and the economical use of musical material. For this piece Reich uses digitally sampled speech fragments with an emphatic melodic contour as the basis for composition. These speech melodies provide the primary building blocks out of which the work is constructed. Because the musical mater…
Swung Subjectivity in Jacques Réda
This article uses Jacques Réda's theory of poetic swing to show how the traditional metrical analysis of poetic rhythm might be updated to better reflect the rhythmic intricacies of contemporary French literary language. It begins by situating Jacques Réda's rhythmic practices with respect to the deconstructive theories of rhythm and subjectivity espoused by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Henri Meschonnic. Using the concept of swing, Réda seeks to …
Edouard Glissant, Littérature-monde, and Tout-monde
To someone who studies the Caribbean, a striking feature of the 2007 Littérature-monde manifesto is its deep debt to the thought of one of its most prestigious signatories: Edouard Glissant. The very title of the manifesto hints at this influence, through its use of the hyphenated "littérature-monde" formulation, which echoes many of Glissant's coinages. Given the close parentage between Glissant's thought and the Littérature-monde project, it se…
Mimesis & Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Reviewed by: Mimesis & Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005 Eric Prieto Girard, René. Mimesis & Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005. Edited and with an introduction by Robert Doran. Stanford UP, 2008. 310pp. The 2008 publication of Mimesis & Theory, a collection of previously published essays by René Girard on literature and literary theory, confirms the impression that Girard’s career has entered its valedictor…
Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place
Place after Postcolonial Studies
Implied in the title of this chapter are two symmetrically related questions. First, how has our understanding of place changed since the advent of postcolonial studies? That is, what do the central themes and methodologies of postcolonial studies contribute to the theory of place? Second, to what extent has it become necessary today to move beyond postcolonial approaches to the study of place? This second, more controversial question is motivate…
Koffi Kwahulé’s Coltranean Theatre of Cruelty
Any study of Koffi Kwahule’s theatre must grapple with the problem of bad taste. Kwahule’s plays typically dwell on outrageous themes, ranging from rape and incest to infanticide and cannibalism, which might seem to be chosen only for their shock value. This thematic provocation is matched on the formal level by scripts and stagings that disregard the established norms of proportion, economy, discretion, and narrative structure, and that prefer t…
Rethinking Aimé Césaire: Presentation
This essay introduces the central themes of "Rethinking Césaire," a special section of Small Axe, which gravitate in metacritical fashion around the various efforts to refashion Aimé Césaire's legacy in and around 2013, the centenary of his birth. Included are essays devoted to Césaire's poetic legacy, his theory of Negritude, his relationship to Marxism, and his intellectual partnership with his wife, Suzanne Césaire. What emerges is a sense of …
Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction, written by Stanka Radović
Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance: Cities Under Stress
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