The Pittsburgh Model and Other Thoughts on the Field (Hispanism/Latin Americanism)

Beverley sees in the role of Cuba an essential turning point for Hispanism and Latin Americanism-the beginning of an engagement with politics, together with a flourishing period for the discipline as illustrated by the institutional project of his own department at Pittsburgh. There, a focus on Lati...

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Published inRevista hispánica moderna Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 7 - 16
Main Author Beverley, John
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York University of Pennsylvania Press 01.04.2021
Subjects
Careers
Filología
Hispanism
Hispanismo
Pessimism
Philology
Politics
Política
United States > US
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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Summary:Beverley sees in the role of Cuba an essential turning point for Hispanism and Latin Americanism-the beginning of an engagement with politics, together with a flourishing period for the discipline as illustrated by the institutional project of his own department at Pittsburgh. There, a focus on Latin American studies made a prominent presence of his department in the field possible but, according to him, those days seem to be over. He advocates for a return to a Gramscian "worldly" criticism by reverting to philology instead of turning to the otherworldly, "apocalyptic" philosophical flights found in Moreiras and others. Far from being loyal to the past, that new philological apparatus would put together a Cervantine tradition of debunking and the one performed on his statue in San Francisco, no longer just a symbol of its mortality but also a script of the strategies for its survival. Beverley's pessimism about the future of the field returns in Resina's piece, where Hispanism does not seem to have much of a future either.
ISSN:0034-9593
1944-6446
1944-6446
DOI:10.1353/rhm.2021.0004