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For the second year in a row, Fuentes is teaching a course--Lit and Art C-41, "History and Fiction in Spanish America"--which is a condensed and restructured version of "Terra Nostra." In the course, Fuentes traces the heritage of Latin America back to the different currents of thought...
Brookner's unmistakable moral tone is never overbearing, largely because it comes wrapped in an elegant irony. But there is also her refined literary instinct, which understands fiction's obligation to define values and render discriminations and judgments. This she does in clear, astringent prose, even though the London Dorns...
"One of the greatest insults was offering a Core course of 'Africa.' There's no way you can cover a continent in a semester," says Parson. The BSA wants to revitalize the Afro-American Studies program and increase the number of minority-related courses in the Core.
On others, fine photographs of ruins and landscape open up a continent containing much that is wondrous. But throughout the panels are pictures that capture single events: a group surrounding a Santiago evangelist, a Peruvian dwarf, a religious procession.
"We are not a nation," Herman Melville said of this country of immigrants, "so much as a world." That judgment is ringingly appropriate to an art industry that since its inception has dominated the world market and consciousness. A wistful tramp wreaks havoc in a Manhattan pawnshop, and Asians fall...