to @jefflawcdm.bsky.social, Emily Shortslef, Ellen Song, Michael Trask, and JCMS’s anonymous reviewers, for comments on multiple drafts; to Jeff Menne, for stewarding the essay through JCMS’s system; and to Lauren Stachew and her team at University of Michigan, for expert copyediting.

enjoyed the cluster but especially this response—i’m trained in comp lit/eastern european lit & i always get the sense that post45 forgets it’s mostly former english majors having a conversation with little knowledge of what’s going on beyond itself

Yeah, that seems right. Some of this has to do with how we define a social movement imo. I have more thoughts, but probably for a different format!

Tracking Latin American literary responses to MeToo would make more sense, but would have to take into account the regional/national specificities of NiUnaMenos, which precedes the major wave of MeToo even though it’s arguably bolstered/transformed by it.

Yes, for sure, and there is transnational exchange between the movements themselves. But can we agree that the best study of the literary effects of those movements would be “comparative” rather than transnational? Imo, tracking responses to NiUnaMenos in the US literary field wouldn’t get us far.

Yes, I also was looking to scholarship in Latin America and Spain about social movements and culture for the most recent essay. So it would make sense. I would love to think about these issues in a hemispheric/transnational context.

I appreciate that you made reference to my book in your response. It really wasn’t taken up by US or Latin American literary scholars when it came out. Part of my rationale for writing the original essay was my sense of how narrow the methodological possibilities are for post-1945 literary studies.

I hear what you’re saying Nacho and constraint strikes me as the right word. I felt that I couldn’t do justice to the internal dynamics of the US literary field and those transnational elements at the same time. I do hope that people in Post45 go back to “Anxieties of Experience” after this cluster.

Esta especie de palabrería necia (para hablar de un saldo de muertos de más de 150.000 personas) define tanto el estilo como el contenido de los reportajes recientes de Jacobin hacia México, y a mi juicio, no hacen ningún servicio a la administración actual.

En su columna "Claudia Sheinbaum, Presidenta", despacha así las críticas sobre la persistencia de la militarización: "While AMLO’s administration ultimately succeeded in modestly reducing stubborn homicide totals, the nation is far from pacified, with rates remaining frustratingly high".

En los primeros años del sexenio de AMLO, se podía criticar a Morena desde una posición de apoyo, y ahora no. El más vergonzoso en ese sentido es Kurt Hackbarth.

To my mind, the absence of an English translation of the book (the Spanish translation, which I read, came out in 2021) speaks volumes about the refusal of the US literary-scholarly establishment to abandon the moralizing tones in which the entire debate has been conducted.