Prosthetic Columbus

Méndez, Germán Labrador

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“…on Iberian studies, which draws on ties with Portuguese cultural history; recognizes Spain’s four official national languages, Basque, Catalan, Galician, and Spanish; and stresses non-peninsular territories. As Iberian cultural studies scholar Germán Labrador Méndez expounds: “the very definition of contemporary Spain is at stake, both with regard to the Latin American world and in relation to Peninsular studies as a discipline” (2022: 76). These fields, in other words, are in the making.…”

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Transatlantic LatinX studies, Iberian studies, and the Global South

Milian,

Romera-Figueroa

2024

Cultural Dynamics

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More than a special issue, this endeavor serves as a sourcebook and provocation amplifying embryonic but interlinked sites of inquiry: LatinXness in Spain and its vital conversation with US LatinX studies as well as Iberian studies. LatinXs share historical and cultural connections to the Spanish and American empires. The contemporary period marks a significant moment on both sides of the Atlantic, as Spain now houses Europe’s largest LatinX population and the shifting ground of LatinXness exceeds the United States as well as a North-South axis of analysis. With an eye toward being wide-ranging, bringing forward fresh insights, and offering a crucial reference for an expanding area of interest—transatlantic LatinX studies—this undertaking provides historical contexts, defining moments, conceptual parameters, and critical approaches that appraise how Spain’s sociocultural and intellectual climate has fully entered a LatinX epoch. The exploration faces a cluster of questions: What do current characterizations of Spanishness invigorate when it admits a long ignored—and inseparable—LatinX foundation? What constitutes Spanish national currency when animated by LatinX bodies and imaginations? What is Spain—and what is Europe—to LatinXness and the Global South? What kind of new Spain—and new Europe—emerge from LatinXness and Global Southness? Collected here are original arguments and contributions—academic articles, think pieces, critical conversations, poetry, and creative nonfiction—orienting us on central thematic concerns that include: new directions and perspectives in transatlantic LatinX studies; the idea of Europe and Europeanness from Spain’s southernmost archipelago, the Canary Islands; LatinX nonhuman origins at the Royal Botanical Garden in the Spanish capital; the history, uses, and dissemination of the Panchito/Panchita racial slur; Madrid’s twenty-first century LatinX Spanish language, migration, and culture; present-day brown drag performance and practices; Afro-Spanish-Colombian poetry and politics; rurality, depopulation, and LatinX repopulation in Aguaviva, Spain; diasporic bodies and expressions of identity through movement; and movement in translation, X equivalencies across bodies, geographies, and languages. The volume, as a whole, is an entry point into LatinX studies and Iberian studies marshaling ideas and thinking tools that may be veering toward a new field of study.

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Transatlantic LatinX studies, Iberian studies, and the Global South

Milian,

Romera-Figueroa

2024

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“…Iberian cultural studies scholar Germán Labrador Méndez (2022) says that this parade’s colonial character “has become a veritable time warp” (80). Even though Spain “has not been geopolitically sovereign for three centuries, and the foreign action of its armies today is executed fundamentally in the Mediterranean,” he scrutinizes, “the memory of its army continues to be Atlantic” (ibid).…”

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LatinX genesis: On the origins of a mongrel species

Milian

2024

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This essay focuses its attention on Madrid, the Royal Botanical Garden (RBG), and the LatinX presence just as they were all coming into existence in the Spanish and European world. Pursuing a LatinX origin that exceeds humanness, this thought exploration tracks the Mesoamerican dahlia, transplanted to Spain in 1789. Acocoxochitl—what we now know as the dahlia, named after Swedish naturalist Andreas Dahl (1751–1789)—was one of the first plants to arrive at Madrid’s RBG when it opened nearly three centuries ago. The flower was tested on, domesticated, and acclimated, making its botanical debut as the dahlia pinnata in 1791. The dahlia is a vector for an unanticipated life form, clueing us in on where the LatinX world-in-process was heading. It offers a glimpse of how the garden and the Latin find themselves arranged and come into being. How LatinX history is blurred—and how LatinX difference has been produced—in Madrid’s iconography is disentangled here. The piece weighs in on these considerations: What does it mean to think alongside the dahlia? What might the plant mean to a human whose body has been tampered with; who asymmetrically became one of Carolus Linnaeus’s Latin species; who has been “naturally” passed down to different kinds of nature; whose construction is both native and foreign; and who comes into being through a rather unnatural classificatory order?

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Prosthetic Columbus

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Transatlantic LatinX studies, Iberian studies, and the Global South

Transatlantic LatinX studies, Iberian studies, and the Global South

LatinX genesis: On the origins of a mongrel species

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