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Review 79

Join us to celebrate Review’s special “Inca Garcilaso” issue, featuring guest academic editor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (CUNY) and guest creative editors Isaac Goldemberg (Hostos Community College/CUNY) and Miguel-Angel Zapata (Hofstra). The editors will discuss the significance of the topic as well as their respective sections. Authors Odi Gonzales (Tunupa/el libro de las sirenas), Tulio Mora (Simulación de la máscara), and Edgardo Rivera Martínez (Danzantes de la noche y de la muerte y otros cuentos), will read their Spanish-language texts from Review 79. Translator Jason Weiss will read English-language versions of the authors’ work. Review 79 will be displayed and available to order at the event.

This event is organized in collaboration with The City College of New York, CUNY; Colonial Latin American Review, the Latin American Writers Institute, CUNY; Hofstra University; and the Consulate General of Peru in New York.
 
Review 79 (Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and His Legacy, Fall 2009), showcases articles by leading colonial literature scholars on various aspects of the Inca Garcilaso’s life and work; a collage of poetry, fiction, and creative essays by Andean Peruvian writers from the colonial period to the present whose work bears an influence from Inca Garcilaso; visual arts pieces on colonial textiles and contemporary expressions of Inca Garcilaso; features on music in Cuzco; and reviews of recent titles by Peruvian authors.

This program is part of the 4th Latin American Culture Week in New York City. For more information, visit http://www.pamar.org/lacwnyc/.

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor of Spanish American literature and culture at The Graduate Center and The City College of the City University of New York, is the founding editor of the journal Colonial Latin American Review. Her recent books and editions include: “Aquí, ninfas del sur, venid ligeras.” Voces poéticas virreinales (2008; “Here, Southern nymphs, come swiftly”: Poetic Voices of the Viceroyalty), Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca (2006), and La palabra y la pluma en Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (2005; The Word and The Pen in First New Chronicle and Good Government).

Isaac Goldemberg is the author of novels (La vida a plazos de don Jacobo Lerner, 1978 [The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner, 1976, 1999]; El nombre del padre, 2001 [The Name of the Father]); poetry collections (Hombre de paso/Just Passing Through, 1981; Libro de las transformaciones, 2007 [Book of Transformations]); and the anthology El gran libro de América judía (1998; The Great Book of Jewish America). He is Distinguished Professor at Hostos Community College, CUNY, where he is Director of the Latin American Writers’ Institute and Editor of Hostos Review.

Odi Gonzales (Valle Sagrado, Cusco, 1962) is a professor of Quechua at New York University. His most recent books of poems are Taki parwa/22 poemas de Kilku Warak’a (traducción y estudio de la poesía quechua de Andrés Alencastre (2000; Taki parwa/22 poems of Kilku Warak [study and translation of Andrés Alencastre’s Quechuan poetry]), Tunupa/el libro de las sirenas (2002; Tunupa/The book of sirens), and La escuela de Cusco (2005; The School of Cusco).

Tulio Mora (Huancayo, 1948) has published six books of poetry including: Mitología (1978; Mythology), Cementerio general (1989; A Mountain Crowned by a Cemetery, 2001), País interior (1994; Inward Country), and Simulación de la máscara (2006; Masked Simulation). With Roberto Bolaño he co-edited Hora Zero, la última vanguardia latinoamericana de poesía (2000; Zero Hour, the Last Latin-American Vanguard of Poetry), on the Hora Zero and Infrarrealismo movements (some of whose exponents appear in Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives).

Edgardo Rivera Martínez (Jauja, 1933) grew up with a fascination for landscapes and images of the Peruvian mountain range that would become the source of inspiration for his future works, as would his experiences of cultural interchange in his native town of Jauja. He has published short stories (Angel de Ocongate, 1982; Danzantes de la noche y de la muerte y otros cuentos, 2006 [Dancers of Night and Death and Other Stories]), as well as novels (País de Jauja, 1993 [Land of Jauja; reprinted six times]; Diario de Santa María, 2008 [Journal of Santa Maria]).

Miguel Angel Zapata’s publications include Transatlantic Steamer: New Approaches to Hispanic and American Poetry (2008), Los canales de piedra (2008; The Stone Canals), Un pino me habla de la lluvia (2007; A Pine Tree Speaks to Me of the Rain), Asir la forma que se va. Nuevos asedios a Carlos Germán Belli (2006; To Seize the Vanishing Form: New Approaches to Carlos Germán Belli), and Mario Vargas Llosa and the Persistence of Memory (2005). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University.

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