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Angélica Gorodischer’s novel Jaguars’ Tomb (Tumba de jaguares) is made up of three linked sections, each credited to a different fictional author. The protagonist of one section becomes the author of the next. Among Gorodischer’s many novels, it is the one that most directly addresses the abductions and disappearances that occurred under the military dictatorship […]

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last 50 years. It challenges dominant narratives in world literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah Quesada argues that these canonical works evoke textual memorials of African memory. She […]

LaKisha Michelle Simmons is a historian of African American gender history specializing in Black girlhood, history of the family, history of sexuality and southern history in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Modern America Workshop (MAW) is a workshop series for those interested in the study of modern U.S. history. The series brings together Americanists […]

The warfare, disease and disruption to the status quo that came with European colonialism to the countries of Theravada Buddhism seemed to fulfill ancient predictions of the calamities that would attend the decline of the Buddhist religion. In their responses to the practical and conceptual challenges of colonialism, Buddhists took inspiration from the canonical and […]