University of PittsburghDepartment of Hispanic

Languages and Literatures

Deconceptualizations: Beyond Identity, Coloniality and the Subaltern

6th Biennial (des)articulaciones 2017

Deconceptualizations: Beyond Identity, Coloniality and the Subaltern

Graduate Student Symposium

University of Pittsburgh

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Graduate Student Symposium CommitteePaul Guillén, Lana E. Sims, Edgar Luis Colón, Andrés Obando, Jesús Eduardo Morales, Christopher Warnes, Jonathan Godínez, Brenda Solkez, Fabían Darío Mosquera, Naira Corzon.

Cover“La lógica del tercero incluido” by Ale Wendorff.

Executive ProductionElizabeth Conforti, Alana Dunn, Keanna Cash.

Special thanks to:John Beverley, Gonzalo Lamana, Jerome Branche, Junyoung Verónica Kim, Elizabeth Monasterios, Áurea Sotomayor, Paula Locante, Giovanni Pizardi, Nayra Ramírez, Mark S. Redfern, Angelina Cotler, Holger Hoock, Jonathan Arac, Ronald J. Zboray, Pedro Salas, Patrick Fogarty, Lucy DiStazio, Monika L. Losagio, Ricardo Vasquez, Carolina Bonilla, Kelvin Duran, Carlos Rivera-Morales.

Sponsored by:

Office of the Provost

John Beverley

Center For Latin American Studies

Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization

Dean for Graduate Studies and Research

Humanities Center

Cultural Studies Program

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

(Des)Articulaciones is a biennial conference organized by the Graduate Students of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh that invites students and professors across disciplines to reflect on Latin American aesthetic and cultural production from alternate points of enunciation. This event provides graduate students with a forum in which they can gain valuable experience sharing their work, receiving feedback from colleagues, and expanding their research.

Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s

Keynote Speakers ..............................................................................9 Lurgio Gavilán ....................................................................9 Nelson Maldonado-Torres .................................................10

Conference Program .......................................................................11 Friday, 20 October .............................................................11 Keynote Address – Lurgio Gavilán ....................................15

Saturday, 21 October............................................................16 Book Presentations..............................................................18 Keynote Address – Nelson Maldonado-Torres .......................20

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Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez is originally from Ayacucho, Perú. Although he lived his early years with his family, he became an orphan when he was still a child. His formal education was interrupted during his childhood until he joined the ranks of the Peruvian military, where he resumed his education. Later on, he continued studying in a Franciscan abbey. In 2000 he started his career in Anthropology. As an outstanding student, he was quickly given a position as Adjunct Professor, and in 2008 he won the Ford Foundation scholarship to complete a master degree in Mexico. He earned his PhD in 2015, and is now a professor at the Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga. “When Rains Became Floods (Memorias de un soldado desconocido) is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military. After escaping the conflict, he became a Franciscan priest and is now an Anthropologist. Gavilán Sánchez’s words mark otherwise forgotten acts of brutality and kindness, moments of misery and despair as well as solidarity and love” (Duke University Press).

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Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Associate Professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, member of the core faculty of the Comparative Literature Program, and faculty affiliate in the Doctoral Program in Women and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has been President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2008-2013), Director of the Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley (2009-2010), and Chair of the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers (2012-2015). He is a board member of the Frantz Fanon Foundation in Paris, France, and honorary member of the Fausto Reinaga Foundation in La Paz, Bolivia. His publications include Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (Duke UP, 2008), and the collection of essays La descolonización y el giro decolonial, compiled by the Universidad de la Tierra (Chiapas, Mexico) in 2011. He has guest edited two issues on “mapping the decolonial turn” for the journal Transmodernity, and is currently working two book projects: Theorizing the Decolonial Turn, and Fanonian Meditations.

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Co n f e r e n C e Pro g r a m

FRIDAY, 20 October 2017 / VIERNES 20 de octubreCathedral Of Learning / Frick Fine Arts

REGISTRATION AND BREAKFASTCathedral of Learning - Sixth Floor – Humanities Center

8.00 - 8.45 AM

OPENING REMARKS / PALABRAS INICIALESCathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor

Humanities Center – Room 6028.45 AM - 9.15 AM

•Gonzalo Lamana Director of Graduate Studies Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

•Paul Guillén and Lana E. Sims 6th biennial (Des)Articulaciones Graduate Student Symposium Committee

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SESIÓN 1: IDENTIDADES ALTERNATIVASCathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor – Room 602

9.15 – 11.00 AM

Elisabeth Guerrero – Bucknell University. Diego Rivera’s Ballet H.P: The Failures of the Pan-American Techno-Body.

Andrea Cabel y Kayla Welch – University of Pittsburgh. La caída del cielo, o el derrumbe de las dualidades: Unmasking the white man in Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s The Falling Sky.

Leandro Arsenio Hernández – Ohio University. Los problemas del indigenismo y la virtud de Saer.

Clara Zanirato – The Ohio State University. La isla cosmopolita: re-placing Lampião into Brazilian history.

Moderador: Christopher Warnes (University of Pittsburgh).

SESIÓN 2: ARTE/ARQUITECTURA/POLÍTICACathedral of Learning – Fifth Floor – Room 501

9.15 – 11.00 AM

Diana Isabel Torres Silva – North Carolina State University.Las esculturas con muebles domésticos de Doris Salcedo. Implicaciones políticas de la violencia ejercida en lo privado.

Caroline Shipley – The Ohio State University. La blasfemia de las prácticas milagrosas: despatriarcalizar creando nuevos mapas.

Estelí Puente Beccar – The Ohio State University. La arquitectura neoandina de El Alto como una estrategia para la búsqueda de justicia espacial.

Moderador: Ricardo Vasquez (University of Pittsburgh).

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MORNING COFFEE BREAK / CAFÉ11.00 - 11.15 AM

SESIÓN 3: AFROLATINIDADESCathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor – Room 602

11.15 AM -1.00 PM

César Adrián Romero Fernández – University of Pittsburgh. DIA 100 by Martín Alvarado: constructing the African-Peruvian community.

Ignacio D. Arellano-Torres – Stony Brook University. Macho y bicha: fluidez de género y espacios liminales en Madame Sata.

Aroldo Nery – Tulane University. Militarización y desmovilización en Colombia: una mirada desde Chambacú, corral de negros, de Manuel Zapata Olivella y Mambrú, de R-H Moreno-Durán.

Daniel Zapata – Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá-Colombia.Racismo, colonialismo y transculturación en la novela Americanah de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Moderador: Lana E. Sims (University of Pittsburgh).

SESIÓN 4: SUR/NORTE Y MÁS ALLÁCathedral of Learning – Fifth Floor – Room 501

11.15 AM - 1.00 PM

Ernest Carranza – The Ohio State University. De Maracaná a Mercosur: La (re)construcción de la identidad nacional uruguaya en Andamios de Mario Benedetti.

Chris Cháirez Batterman – Emory University. Songs to Aztlán: Historical narratives, mythicization, and Chicano identity in the music of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, c.1960-c.1980.

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Félix Miguel Rosario Ortiz – Cornell University. Temblor de voz: apuntes sobre el perseguido en “La isla en peso”.

Moderador: Fabián Darío Mosquera (University of Pittsburgh).

LUNCH BREAK (PROVIDED) / ALMUERZO DE CORTESÍA

Cloisters Frick Fine Arts Building1.00 - 2.15 PM

SESIÓN 5: COLONIALIDADCathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor – Room 602

2.15 - 4.00 PM

Mariona Surribas – The Ohio State University. Yosimar Reyes: El (nuevo) mestizo resiliente, entre Anzaldúa y Quijano.

Shaila Bora – Villanova University. Feeling Gentrified the Colonial Gaze and Sensations of Distance.

Elise Homan – University of Pittsburgh. A Rhetorical Reading of Mignolo’s “Delinking”.

Moderador: Carlos Rivera-Morales (University of Pittsburgh).

SESIÓN 6: VIOLENCIA, GUERRA Y MALCathedral of Learning – Fifth Floor – Room 501

2.15 - 4.00 PM

Ezequiel Durand López – Ohio University. La violencia en la literatura hispanoamericana: el caso de Sebregondi retrocede (1974) de Osvaldo Lamborghini.

Ryan Pinchot – Cleveland State University. El mal y lo malo en El ruido de las cosas al caer.

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Luis Henao Uribe – The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dos novelas de la urgencia: La representación de la violencia como estrategia de formación estatal en Los de abajo y El día del odio.

Emily Rangel Manrique – The Ohio State University.Ojos que ven y hacen ver: ensayando los estudios visuales latinoamericanos en dos videos de YouTube. Cárcel o Infierno de Luidig Ochoa (Venezuela, 2011) y Qué puede un cuerpo de César González (Argentina, 2014).

Moderador: Kelvin Duran (University of Pittsburgh).

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK / CAFÉ4.00 – 4.15 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS / CONFERENCIA MAGISTRALCathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor – Room 602

4.15 - 6.00 PM

Lurgio gaviLán SánChez

Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga“Violence, Anthropology and Literature: A Child Soldier’s Story”.

Introduction by:John Beverley

Department of Hispanic Languages and LiteraturesUniversity of Pittsburgh

Discussants:Giovanni Pizardi (University of Pittsburgh)Nayra Ramírez (University of Pittsburgh)

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SATURDAY, 21 October 2017 / SÁBADO 21 de octubreCathedral of Learning / University Club

REGISTRATION AND COFFEECathedral of Learning - Sixth Floor – Humanities Center

8.30 AM-9.15 AM

SESIÓN 7: GUATEMALA; NUEVAS PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS

Cathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor – Room 6029.15 - 11.00 AM

Robert G. Barnes – Virginia Tech University. Transnational Resource Extraction, Tourism, and Minority Languages in Guatemala.

John William Kennedy – University of Pittsburgh. “Trabajo, Pan, y Libertad”: Necropolitics, Race, and Disinformation during the Guatemalan Democratic Spring.

Hyanghee Lee – University of South Carolina. The cinematographic representation of colonial subject and subalternity in “Ixcanul (2015)” of Jayro Bustamante.

Moderador: Jonathan Godínez (University of Pittsburgh).

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SESIÓN 8: NARRATIVAS RECIENTES Cathedral of Learning – Fifth Floor – Room 501

9.15 - 11.00 AM

David Ortega – Yale University. Álvaro Enrigue: Fuerzas desestabilizadoras en Vidas perpendiculares (2008) y El cementerio de las sillas (2002).

Stephanie Mercado Irizarry – University of Connecticut. Sujetos en la zona del ser: migrantes, precarios y colonialidad en Otra vez me alejo de Luis Othoniel Rosa.

Adelmar Ramírez – University of California at Los Angeles. Identidades en tránsito en Ocio seguido de veteranos del pánico.

Leonor Taiano – University of Notre Dame. La quimera del homúnculo hispano: crisis identitaria en el escenario post-heroico majfudiano.

Moderador: Andrés Obando (University of Pittsburgh).

MORNING COFFEE BREAK / CAFÉ11.00 - 11.15 AM

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SPECIAL SESSION / SESIÓN ESPECIALBOOK PRESENTATIONS / PRESENTACIÓN DE LIBROS

Cathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor – Room 60211.15-1.00 PM

Elizabeth MonasteriosLa vanguardia plebeya del Titikaka. Gamaliel Churata y otras beligerancias estéticas en los Andes y Bolivian Studies Journal.

Áurea Sotomayor Poéticas que armar. Modos poéticos de replicar al presente en la cultura

puertorriqueña contemporánea (2017) y Entre objetos perdidos. Un siglo de poesía puertorriqueña (2017).

Moderador: Edgar Luis Colón (University of Pittsburgh).

LUNCH BREAK (ON YOUR OWN) / ALMUERZO POR SU CUENTA

1.00-2.30 PM

SESIÓN 9: INDIGENISMO(S), SENDERO LUMINOSO Y ROCK SUBTERRÁNEO

Cathedral of Learning – Sixth Floor – Room 6022.30 - 4.15 PM

José Chávarri – The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Regímenes de trabajo y participación artística en J.M. Arguedas y M. Scorza.

Lorena Vega Tamayo – University of California, Riverside. Una memoria imposible de borrar: Las problemáticas de la modernización y la “otredad” en La teta asustada de Claudia Llosa.

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Giosué Alagna – University of Wisconsin-Madison. Out of the Frame: Emblematic Memory Frameworks and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Peru.

Beatriz Carlota Rodríguez – Arizona State University. Estudios Subalternos en la narrativa de la guerra: Incendiar la ciudad de Julio Durán.

Moderador: Paul Guillén (University of Pittsburgh).

SESIÓN 10: MIGRACIÓN/FRONTERACathedral of Learning – Fifth Floor – Room 501

2.30 - 4.15 PM

Laura Pavón Aramburú – The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Crimen, Policíaco y sensacionalismo en las narco-narrativas del norte de Perú y el norte de México.

José Sarzi Amade – Universidad Aix-Marseille. Desierto de Jonás Cuarón: “civilización del tener” versus “civilización del ser”.

Édgar Javier Ulloa – Georgetown University. Dreams as restructural praxis. Viva la Vida: Los sueños de Ciudad Juárez.

Jesús Eduardo Morales – University of Pittsburgh.Memoria desde el desencanto: Texto de recuperación en 2666, de Roberto Bolaño.

Moderador: Brenda Solkez (University of Pittsburgh).

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK / CAFÉ4.15-4.45PM

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS / CONFERENCIA MAGISTRALThe University Club – Conference Room A

4.45 - 6.30 PM

neLSon maLdonado-TorreS

Rutgers University“On Leaving Methods to the Botanists and Mathematicians:

Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and the Decolonial Attitude”.

Introduction by:Áurea Sotomayor

Department of Hispanic Languages and LiteraturesUniversity of Pittsburgh

DINNER / CENAThe University Club – Conference Room A

6.30 - 8.00 PM