🎉 Welcome to the inaugural issue of Variantes! 🌟 We're a graduate student-run literary and fine arts magazine from Yale's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 🌍✨ Enjoy our first selections and stay tuned for more! 📚👀 creativeforum.yale.edu/variantes/

Variantes

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This book = the overlap in mine and @tessrenker.bsky.social’s dissertations

Tess Renker@tessrenker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1:

Would you look at that. Got reviewed in the LARB. "Gil’s superb translation adds a formidable new work to Césaire’s corpus"... sup-erb. Hi 👋🏼 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Musab Younis · The Mouth of Calamities: Césaire’s Reversals

Aimé Césaire can seem to be caught between worlds. For the politically minded, he is suspiciously literary and obscure...

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Not all conversations worth having are happening in English. —Mónica de la Torre, on the value of translation

Complete CFP and submission link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CFP for “Entre lugares”, the Conference organized by the Grad Students at Yale’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese! We are really excited to welcome you to New Haven and get to know about your work. Please share widely! 💛

Echenle un ojo a esta reseña mía del nuevo libro de Ethel Barja—Poesía e insurrección: la Revolución cubana en el imaginario latinoamericano (2023)—publicada en Chasqui. chasquirll.org/wp-content/u...

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1.) Neo-avant-garde poetics during the Latin American long sixties 2.) Poetry and Google Translate

Tess Renker@tessrenker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1. Indigenous authorship and/of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict 2. Literature and film of Mexican internal migrations