Talks by Ameya Tripathi
A discussion at Columbia University with Ivan Vladislavić on the re-release of 'The Folly', his f... more A discussion at Columbia University with Ivan Vladislavić on the re-release of 'The Folly', his first novel, as well as his latest work as he toured the US after being awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize.
Papers by Ameya Tripathi
Examines Santos\u27s 1936 documentary Reportaje del movimiento revolucionario en Barcelona, the f... more Examines Santos\u27s 1936 documentary Reportaje del movimiento revolucionario en Barcelona, the first film made about the Spanish Civil War. Tripathi compares Santos\u27s film made for, by, and about working-class people to The Spanish Earth, noting briefly how intended audience (local versus international) affects each film\u27s tone, commentary, and visual imagery
Modernist Cultures
This article examines Nancy Cunard's later writing on Spain as a direct legacy of her previou... more This article examines Nancy Cunard's later writing on Spain as a direct legacy of her previous projects as a modernist poet, publisher and black rights activist. Cunard was a rare analyst of the links between total war, colonial counter-insurgency, and cultural destruction. Noting the desire of both the air power theorist and art collector to stereotype peoples, from Morocco to Ethiopia to Spain, as ‘primitive’, the article brings original archival materials from Cunard's notes into dialogue with her journalism, and published and unpublished poetry, to examine how she reclaimed and repurposed primitivism. Her poems devise a metonymic and palimpsestic literary geopolitics, juxtaposing fragments from ancient cultures atop one another to argue, simultaneously, for Spain's essential dignity as both a primitive and a civilised nation. Cunard reconciles Spain's liminal status, between Africa and Europe, to argue for Spain's art, and people, as part of a syncretic, univ...
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