Etiqueta: Jorge Majfud
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Un poco de literatura «Hispano-American»
Claro que tengo algunas discrepancias con este artículo. Por ejemplo, el párrafo: «A principios de 1959, una nueva ola de refugiados de la Revolución Cubana estableció una prensa de exilio de amplio alcance. Chilenos, salvadoreños, nicaragüenses y otros expatriados hispanoamericanos han contribuido también a la literatura del exilio. Algo relativamente nuevo de esta última literatura…
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Propaganda and the Myth of Reconquest
Propaganda and the Myth of Reconquest By Jorge Majfud A few days ago a well-known syndicated talk radio personality repeatedly asserted an opinion that is becoming common these days: illegal immigrants should be denounced as dishonest and criminal, not only because they have entered the U.S. illegally but, mainly, because their objective is the Reconquest.…
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The History of Immigration
The History of Immigration by Jorge Majfud One of the typical – correction: stereotypical – images of a Mexican has been, for more than a century, a short, drunk, trouble-maker of a man who, when not appearing with guitar in hand singing a corrido, was portrayed seated in the street taking a siesta under…
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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Exhibition runs December 13, 2010 through March 13, 2011 Main Library, Fourth Floor «Nazism is applied biology.» — Rudolf Hess, Deputy to Adolf Hitler The Jacksonville Public Library, in partnership with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Remembering for the Future Community Holocaust Initiative, is honored to present Deadly Medicine: Creating…
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Complicity and Resistance in a Controlled Society
Pictures: Yoana Kochneva, Assistant Designer. JU Hosted Panel Discussion on Lessons and Topics surrounding the Holocaust on Feb. 17 Jacksonville University and Remembering for the Future Community Holocaust Initiative presented “Complicity & Resistance in a Controlled Society” on Thursday, February 17 at 7 p.m. in Terry Concert Hall on campus. The event, which was moderated by…
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La irrelevancia de la razón “¿Cómo Dios pudo permitir que sucediera esto?”
La irrelevancia de la razón “¿Cómo Dios pudo permitir que sucediera esto?” En 1974 Jorge Luis Borges le comentó a Ernesto Sábato que a su juicio bastaba con un dolor de muelas para negar la existencia de un Dios todopoderoso. Esta observación sería rigurosamente cierta si consideramos que el Todopoderoso es, al mismo tiempo, Todobondadoso.…
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The Importance of Being Called an Idiot
¿ Cómo definimos la idiotez ideológica? (Spanish) The Importance of Being Called an Idiot Jorge Majfud A few days ago a gentleman recommended that I read a new book about idiocy. I believe it was called The Return of the Idiot, The Idiot Returns, or something like that. I told him that I had…
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The Rebellion of the Readers, Key to Our Century
La rebelión de los lectores (Spanish) The Rebellion of the Readers, Key to Our Century Jorge Majfud Among the most frequented sites for tourists in Europe are the Gothic cathedrals. Gothic spaces, so different from the Romanesque of centuries before, tend to impress us through the subtlety of their aesthetic, something they share with the…
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Virginia Tech: an ideo-lexical analysis of a tragedy
Análisis ideoléxico de una tragedia (Spanish) Virginia Tech: an ideo-lexical analysis of a tragedy By Jorge Majfud Most of the medicines that it is sold as pills cover a certain drug, chemic or compound with a coat that has an attractive color and a sweet taste. In Spanish, popular wisdom uses this characteristic to…
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The Repressed History of the United States
La historia reprimida de Estados Unidos (Spanish) The Repressed History of the United States Revolution, Egalitarianism and Anti-imperialism By Jorge Majfud Taking advantage of another anniversary of the birth of George Washington, president George W. Bush used the occasion to compare the American Revolution of the 18th century with the war in Iraq. …
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What good is literature, anyway?
Jorge Majfud’s books at Amazon>> ¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (I) (Spanish) À quoi sert la littérature ? (Spanish) What good is literature, anyway? I am sure that you have heard many times this loaded query: «Well, what good is literature, anyway?» almost always from a pragmatic businessman or, at worst, from…
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¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (II)
¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (I) What good is literature? (II) (English) À quoi sert la littérature ? (French) ¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (II) Cada tanto algún político, algún burócrata, algún inteligente inversor resuelve estrangular las humanidades con algún recorte en la educación, en algún ministerio de cultura o simplemente descargando toda la fuerza del mercado sobre…
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The Jesus the Emperors Kidnapped
El Jesús que secuestraron los emperadores (Spanish) The Jesus the Emperors Kidnapped Who will lend me a ladder to climb up the timbering, to remove the nails from Jesus the Nazarene? (Antonio Machado) Jorge Majfud A few days ago the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, referred to Jesus as the…
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Why the name of Latin America?
What does “Latin America” mean? Why the name of Latin America? By Jorge Majfud The essentialist component of the ancestral search for identity as part of nationalistic projects – which kept intellectuals busy for such a long time, being Octavio Paz one of them- has not completely disappeared or has become a commercial relation of…
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Where Does the Voice of the People Come From?
¿De dónde viene la voz del pueblo? (Spanish) Where Does the Voice of the People Come From? Jorge Majfud If naïve is not the opposite of genius, it is also not its substitute. This is the origin of fables and parables. Or of sophisms like: “I can resist anything, except temptation” (attributed to Oscar…
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Patriarchy with a Woman’s Face
El patriarcado con rostro de mujer (Spanish) Patriarchy with a Woman’s Face Jorge Majfud The same day that Joe Biden is selected as candidate for the vice presidency by the Democratic Party, the campaign of John McCain reproduced several videos of Hillary Clinton sharply attacking Obama. Probably these ads were designed with a selection of…
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