Rolando Perez
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- Associate Professor
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- Latin American & Spanish Literature and Philosohy, Contemporary French Philosophy
- University
- Hunter College
- Department
- Department of Romance Languages
- Country
- USA
- Town / City
- New York, New York
- RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Severo Sarduy, Cesar Vallejo, Alejandra Pizarnik, Enrique Dussel, Linda Alcoff, Latin-American Philosophy, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Hume, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Agamben, Wittgenstein, art history, art theory, Renaissance art, contemporary art, Latin American art, minimalism, abstract expressionism, Latino Literature, Cuban literature, political philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of language
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ARTICLES AND BOOKS
“Vallejo on Language and Politics,” Letras hispanas: Revista de literatura y cultura. Vol. 5.No. 2 Fall 2008. Internet 1/28/09. HTML format: http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/vol5iss2/perez.htm. PDF: http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/vol5iss2/perez.pdf.
“César Vallejo’s Ars Poética of Nonsense: A Deleuzean Reading of Trilce.” Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. 4/5. Fall 2008. http://www.dissidences.org/4PerezVallejo.html.
“Irony, Love, and Political Economy in José Asunción Silva’s De sobremesa.” Hispanófila. Vol. 150. May 2007: 87-102.
"What is ‘minor’ in Latino Literature.” MELUS. Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Vol. 30. No. 4. Winter 2005: 89-108.
“The Sadean Poetics of Solitude in Paz and Pizarnik.” Latin American Literary Review. Vol .33. No. 65. J anuary/June 200: 5-26.
"Love and Hatred of ‘French Theory’ in America.” Borderlands e journal. University of New South Wales/Sydney, Australia. Vol. 4 No. 1 2005. http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/.
“Severo Sarduy.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 24. No. 1 Spring 2004: 94-138.
“Towards a Non‑Fascist or An(archical) Way of Life.” Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers:. 3 vol. Editor, Gary Genosko . London: Routledge, 2000: 748-758.
BOOKS (SCHOLARLY):
On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis (Contemporary French philosophy; Autonomedia/Semiotext(e), 1990).
Severo Sarduy and the Religion of the Text (Latin American literature & criticism; University Press of America, 1988).
REFERENCE ARTICLES:
Reference articles on “BILINGUAL BLUES (Gustavo Pérez-Firmat;” “GUSTAVO PÉREZ-FIRMAT;” and on ‘ILAN STAVANS” in the Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature). Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. (NY: Facts on File, 2008).
I contributed numerous articles to The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature. Edited by Danilo Figueredo. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
Severo Sarduy and the Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures). Forthcoming 2011.
“The Cid: War Machine, Self-Made Noble, and Mythic Hero of Menéndez Pidal's Nationalist Epic.” In Celebrating the Cid: A University of New Mexico Homage. Seminary.
BOOKS (LITERARY):
Selections from The Lining of Our Souls, The Electric Comedy, and The Divine Duty of Servants in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. Ed. Ilan Stavans. NY: W. W. Norton, 2011.
The Lining of Our Souls: Excursions into selected paintings of Edward Hopper –New/revised edition. Illustrated. Preface by Gail Levin (author of Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography) Cool Grove Press, April 2002).
The Electric Comedy (poetry, a post-modern version of Dante’sDivina Commedia, Cool Grove Press, 2000).
The Divine Duty of Servants: A Book of Worship (fiction, based on the artwork of Polish writer/artist and Holocaust victim, Bruno Schulz, Cool Grove Press, 1999).
The Odyssey (fiction, Brook House Press, 1990; Alexander Street Press: Latino Literature database 2005).
H is for Box, The House that Ate Their Brains, Plays and Playthings, and Janus Dies? (dramatic works; ASP: Latino Literature database 2005).
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Cuban born Rolando Pérez has published in a variety of disciplines, ranging from philosophy and literary criticism to poetry and fiction. Some of his books include Severo Sarduy and the Religion of the Text (1988), On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis (1990), The Divine Duty of Servants: A Book of Worship (1999, based on the artwork of Bruno Schulz), The Electric Comedy (2000, a modern version of Dante’s Divine Comedy), and The Linings of Our Souls: Excursions into Selected Paintings of Edward Hopper (2003). He is also the author of a number of essays on such literary figures as Milan Kundera, Bruno Schulz, Severo Sarduy, José Asunción Silva, Alejandra Pizarnik, Octavio Paz, and others. Two of his seminal articles are “What is ‘minor” in Latino Literature” (MELUS), and “Love and Hatred of ‘French Theory’ in America” in Borderlands e journal. Selections from his creative work will appear in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature in 2008. Rolando Pérez is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Pérez's book, Severo Sarduy and The Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts will be published in late Fall 2011 by Purdue University Press.
