Senior Lecturer

OFFICE HOURS
Monday 3-5

Please note that the above times do not apply to Reading Week or the examination term. If you need to see me during these periods, please contact me via e-mail to arrange an appointment.

Room 1.22
Tel: 020 7882 8296
Fax: 020 8980 5400
email p.e.dallemand@qmul.ac.uk

Patricia D'Allemand's research interests are in the areas of Latin American literature, cultural history and history of ideas, with particular emphasis upon Colombia, the Andean region and Southern Cone countries. She has published widely on Latin American cultural theory and is a specialist on processes of nation-building, ethnicity and identity discourses in nineteenth-century Colombia. Patricia D’Allemand has recently completed a ground-breaking study of the major nineteenth-century Colombian writer and thinker, José María Samper, which offers a radical and timely interdisciplinary rethinking of the author’s writings and raises crucial issues relevant to not only Samper’s work, but also to the traditional approaches that literary criticism and the social sciences have imposed on nineteenth-century Colombian literature and thought as a whole (soon to be published as part of the Peter Lang’s series Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas).
She is currently working on mid-nineteenth-century Colombian critical discourses and literary historiography, whose articulations to the nation’s modernising project have traditionally been overlooked or even denied.

Publications

• 'Hacia una crítica literaria latinoamericana: nacionalismo y cultura en el discurso de Beatriz Sarlo', Occasional Paper, Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies, King's College London, 1990. Re-published in Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias, 2 (1993): 27-40. Re-printed in Culturas híbridas/no simultaneidad/modernidades periféricas: mapas culturales para América Latina, ed. Sarah de Mojica (Berlin: Wissenschafflicher Verlag, 2000), pp.197-209.
• 'Art and Culture in the Discourse of José Carlos Mariátegui', Travesia. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 1&2 (1994): 299-312.
• 'La contribución de Mariátegui a la crítica latinoamericana', De Thesaurus, Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo, XLIX:3 (1994): 449-490.
• 'Alejandro Losada y la crítica histórico-cultural en Latinoamérica: algunas observaciones', Journal of Hispanic Research, 3 (1995): 354-366.
• 'Angel Rama y el discurso de la transculturación', Nuevo Texto Crítico, 16-17 (1995-1996): 133-151.
• 'Urban Literary Production and Latin American Criticism', Bulletin of Latin American Research, 15 (1996): 359-369.
• Latin American Cultural Criticism: Re-interpreting a Continent (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)
• 'La crítica latinoamericana en el fin de siglo: un balance', Neophilologus LXXXIV: 1 (2000): 59-74.
• 'José Carlos Mariátegui: Culture and the Nation', chapter in Postcolonial Perspectives on Latin America and Lusophone Cultures, ed. Robin Fiddian (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000), pp. 79-102.
• Hacia una crítica cultural en América Latina (CELACP/Latinoamericana Editores: Lima/Berkeley, 2001)
• 'Antonio Cornejo Polar: Aportes al abordaje de la pluralidad cultural en América Latina.' Revista Gragoatà 10 (2001): 185-193.
• '"Literatura Nacional": una noción en crisis', chapter in Antonio Cornejo Polar y los estudios latinoamericano, ed. Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana/Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2002). Re-printed in América Latina: Nuevas aproximaciones desde los estudios literarios y culturales, ed Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. México: Colibrí/Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2005.
• 'Of Silences and Exclusions', in Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies, ed. Stephen Hart and Richard Young (London: Arnold, 2003). 215-227.
• 'Rediseñando fronteras culturales: mapas alternativos para la historiografia literaria latinoamericana', Literatura, Teoría, Historia, Crítica IV (2003): 79-104.
• 'Las metáforas de la crítica latinoamericana' De Thesaurus, Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo, LIV: 3 (1999): 827-842.
• 'Silencios y reticencias de la crítica en Colombia' in Latin American Studies in the UK, special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies LXXXIV: 4-5 (2007): 529-548
• 'Reflexiones en torno a Escribir en el aire: ensayo sobre la heterogeneidad sociocultural de las literaturas andinas, de Antonio Cornejo Polar' (shortly to appear in Estrategias del pensar. Ensayo y prosa de ideas en América Latina en el siglo XX, ed. Liliana Weinberg, Mexico: UNAM)
• Institutionalising Cultural Studies. Special issue of Hispanic Research Journal 9: 1 (2008), co-edited with Josep Anton Fernández.
• ‘Quimeras, contradicciones y ambigüedades en la ideología criolla del mestizaje: el caso de José María Samper’. Revista de Historia y Sociedad 13 (2007): 45-63 (Available also online in http://biblioteca virtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/colombia/fche/3.pdf)
• ‘Hacia una relectura de la producción novelística de José María Samper’. In Tesserae. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (15): 1 (2009): 1-14.
• José María Samper: nación y cultura en el siglo XIX colombiano. Oxford: Peter Lang (2012).
• ‘Foundational Texts and National Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Colombia’ (forthcoming)
• ‘Las batallas de la crítica postcolonial criolla en Colombia’ (forthcoming).
• ‘Fundamentos y proyecciones de la historiografía literaria decimonónica colombiana’ (in preparation).

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