/lit/ - Literature

>>11574890
yes, I find this phenomenon to be really indicative of the underlying sentiments of the Anglo user base. Not even when the user admits to being jewish, arab, or a nigger is the reaction as visceral and long lasting, it usually limits to a snide comment and then the topic of discussion just resumes as expected, threads that try to mention the use of spanish in literature (or not even that, the sole mention spanish as a native tongue by OP), quickly devolves into a shitstorm and never recover.

Why does being a native spanish speaker implies his heritage is mestizo? Its perfectly reasonable to speculate his parents could be from any race, and they could've moved to such a country to exploit job opportunities, this being the case of my particular family.

Ultimately, why does it matter? I never, ever see this subject being brought up when discussion the works of established south american / spanish authors like Borges of Cervantes.

SAVAGE

>Wilson, however, decides in her introduction that the story of the Cyclops is really a story about colonialism (“the Polyphemus episode seems to meditate uneasily on the processes of colonization”), and hence it is her duty to resist any tendency to dehumanize the sixty-foot-tall, one-eyed, flesh-eating son of the sea-god. She translates athemistos as “maverick,” an offense not only against sensibility, but also against the aesthetics of her poem—the word leaps off the page, wildly inappropriate to Wilson’s typical register. Needless to say I just about fell over laughing. And huperphialos, which she is happy to render “insolent” and “arrogant” when it comes to the suitors, she changes to “highminded” for Polyphemus. The sight of drunk Polyphemus vomiting up wine and chunks of human flesh in his cave was not enough to get Wilson to shy away from calling him “highminded.”