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  Campus Dialogue Guidebook 2025

  Chloe Cairncross, Christopher P. Davey, Charles Guenther, James Kang, Bryce Lambright, Layla Modlin, Wai Wai Nu, Frank Okyere Osei, Diane Tayong, and Leah Wardlaw

  This guidebook's purpose is to understand and address the potential of dialogue for our Binghamton campus community. It shares the background of dialogue on campus, describes case studies of dialogue work on campus, offers “things to do,” and finally suggests some ways of measuring effective dialogue. This guidebook is written primarily by students, and for students to use. Students at Binghamton University are our primary audience. The principles in this guidebook may be applicable across other campuses in similar environments. This guidebook is put together in a way that shows what kind of dialogue has been happening and not happening, and what can be learned from these activities. We then highlight types of dialogue work that can take place and campus resources that can support this work.

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  Literatura y legitimación en América Latina. Polémicas, operaciones, representaciones

  Guadalupe Silva, Magdalena Cámpora, and Gerardo Pignatiello

  Literatura y legitimación en América Latina. Polémicas, operaciones, representaciones es el resultado de un proyecto de investigación colectivo. El libro explora la relación entre la literatura y el concepto de legitimidad en un conjunto de escenas situadas en el ámbito de la modernidad latinoamericana entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XXI. Se pregunta por el rol que jugó el discurso literario en la legitimación de prácticas, ideas, grupos y posiciones, y a la vez analiza los mecanismos a partir de los cuales la propia literatura fue elaborando su legitimidad en tanto institución social del presente. La literatura moderna es una existencia histórica que se resiste a ser explicada por el pasado y que pretende fundarse a sí misma. Pero ¿pueden la literatura y las artes plantearse como su propia fuente de legitimidad? O en todo caso ¿de qué condiciones heteró- nomas dependen? Para contestar estas preguntas, los capítulos del presente volumen, que incluye contribuciones de destacados especialistas, analizan escenas de la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos. Se plantean así problemas locales y específicos que permiten delinear cuestiones generales de crítica y teoría literarias.

  Fil: Silva, Guadalupe. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

  Fil: Cámpora, Magdalena. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

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  Premises and Problems: Essays on World Literature and Cinema

  Luiza Moreira

  World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to critically interrogate world literature and cinema, Premises and Problems approaches this system from the perspective of languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position. This perspective raises new questions about the nature of literary hegemony and the structure of world literature: How is hegemony established? What are the costs of losing it? What does hegemony mask? How is it masked? The contributors focus predominantly on literatures outside the small circle of prestigious modern European languages and on films and film criticism produced outside the best-known centers. The inclusion of this unfamiliar material calls attention to some areas of obscurity that make key features of the system indistinct, or that make it difficult to trace relationships between texts that hold different levels of prestige, such as those of the Global North and the Global South. The book argues that the study of world literature and cinema will profit from a sustained and informed engagement with the body of work produced by historical social scientists committed to the perspective of the world-system.

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  Meninos, Poetas e Heróis: Aspectos de Cassiano Ricardo do Modernismo ao Estado Novo

  Luiza Franco Moreira

  No ponto de partida deste livro estão três imagens de Cassiano Ricardo, aparentemente díspares: o poeta de Martim Cererê (1928), livro que em sua décima primeira edição continua atraindo leitores até a atualidade; o escritor modernista, considerado pela crítica mais por sua importância documental; o ideólogo estadonovista que escreveu Marcha para Oeste (1940) e foi diretor de um jornal de propaganda do governo, estudado sobretudo pelos historiadores. Luiza Moreira investiga aqui a convergência entre essas faces, percorrendo os textos de gêneros diversos que Cassiano produziu dos anos de 1920 até o período em que se definiu como um propagandista de Getúlio Vargas, para analisar o substrato temático comum que atravessa a poesia, a prosa e os textos jornalísticos do autor.