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Mixed and Ground: Cooking Latinamericanism with Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dr. Pavel Andrade
Texas Tech
In this talk, Dr. Pavel Andrade (Texas Tech), will discuss how bound by the logic of mistura (mixing), Jorge Amado’s 1966 novel Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands recursively and extensively performs combination—of social classes, religious systems, culinary traditions, sexual proclivities, and so on. This talk argues that, as a corollary to this logic, Dona Flor renders combination thinkable as a Latinamericanist problematic. Performing combination, Dona Flor delivers an aesthetic mode that dissolves the social-scientific concern for the specificity of Latin American capitalism into the recurrent emergence of multiple horizons of possibility, the sensuous outline of an ever-dissipating boundary between the possible and the impossible in Latin America.
