Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America: Intervening Acts

Acknowledgments

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s Support for this book from the University of Kansas included a Hall Center for the Humanities Fellowship, a semester’s sabbatical, a General Research Fund summer grant, and release time from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. A National Endowment for the Humanities University Fellowship, coupled with a bridge grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, supported the writing stage. Several people assisted primary research: at the University of Texas, Ann Hartness, Director of the Benson Latin American Collection , and Nicolas Shumway, Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies; at the University of Florida, Richard Phillips, Director of the Latin American Collection at the Smathers Library; and, as research assistants, Rachel Unruh, Dan Rogers, and Ariel Strichartz. In 1998, I codirected with Iris Smith Fischer a multidisciplinary, semesterlong faculty seminar on Performance and Performativity at the University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities. The dialogue with seminar participants and with Iris, who also provided inspired feedback on proposals and manuscript sections, nurtured the book’s theoretical approach. The dynamic Tertulia Paradiso study group in Lawrence provided a matchless exchange on women and modernism, and fellow tertulianas Roberta Johnson and Janet Sharistanian offered incisive comments on proposals or manuscript segments. I have a special debt to Danny Anderson, ever generous with materials, who first suggested the pertinence of Pierre Bourdieu’s “art of living” to my work and who, as exemplary department chairman and colleague, moved mountains to facilitate the book’s completion. TheresaJ .May’sinterestintheprojectfortheUniversityofTexasPresspropelled it to fruition, and Lynne Chapman, Leslie Tingle, and Tana Silva provided invaluable assistance during the editorial process. As readers for the Press, Jean Franco and Francine Masiello made excellent suggestions, some of which I incorporated. Others (in alphabetical order) provided manuscript feedback or material, information, comments, or support for proposals: Leslie Cardone, Resha Cardone, Sara Castro-Klarén, Andrew Debicki, xii !Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture David Jackson, Roberta Johnson, Elena M. de Jongh, Gwen Kirkpatrick, Jill Kuhnheim, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Charles Perrone, Nicolas Shumway, and Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui. Jennifer Unruh, Pam Rowe, Paula Courtney, and the late Lynn Porter provided technical support. Ann Dosch generously housed me in Austin, and Charles Perrone and Regina Rheda did the same in Gainesville. I am thankful beyond measure to David Unruh for his unflagging help with every aspect of this project and for encouraging me always and in ways that I can never repay. All these people helped make this a better book. Its flaws are singularly my own. Some material appeared in earlier forms and is reprinted with permission . The section on Teresa de la Parra in the introduction is a revised version of “Teresa de la Parra and the Avant-Gardes: An Equivocal Encounter with Literary Culture,” in Todo ese fuego: Homenaje a Merlin Forster, edited by Mara García and Douglas Weatherford (Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, 1999, 65–79). Parts of Chapters 3 and 8 are revised versions of “Las ágiles musas de la modernidad: Patrícia Galvão y Norah Lange,” in Revista iberoamericana 64, no. 182–183 (1998): 271–286; and part of Chapter 8 is a revised version of “¿De quién es esta historia? La narrativa de vanguardias en Latinoamérica,” in Naciendo el hombre nuevo . . . Fundir la literatura, artes y vida como práctica de vanguardias en el Mundo Ibérico, edited by Hans Wentzlaff Eggebert (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Vervuert Verlag, 1999) 249–265. Part of Chapter 5 is revised from “Una reacia Eva moderna: Performance y pesquisa en el proyecto cultural de Antonieta Rivas Mercado,” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 24, no. 28 (1998): 61–84. Part of Chapter 7 is revised from “Las rearticulaciones inesperadas de las mujeres de Amauta: Magda Portal y María Wiesse,”inNarrativafemeninaenAméricaLatina:Prácticasyperspectivas teóricas, edited by Sara Castro-Klarén (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Vervuert Verlag, 2003) 93–110. ...