Ouachita faculty member Margarita Pintado presents paper on Caribbean poetry
October 31, 2013 - Jessica Stewart
Ouachita Baptist University faculty member Dr. Margarita Pintado, assistant professor
of Spanish, presented a paper at a Tulane University conference earlier this month.
The conference, “Radical Caribbeans/Los Caribes Radicales: Repositioning Caribbean
Life,” was hosted in New Orleans by Tulane’s Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute.
The conference sought to reflect on the current state of Caribbean studies and brought
together scholars from a variety of disciplines, such as music, art, literature, film,
politics and performance.
Pintado specializes in poetry and minor literature. “My paper explored the ways in
which Caribbean writers tend to privilege poetry over prose,” Pintado explained. She
participated in a panel of scholars focusing on poetry, prose and politics in 20th
century Puerto Rico.
“The research that we do feeds into the teaching, it supports and makes the classroom
experience much better for students,” said Dr. Doug Sonheim, chair of Ouachita’s Department
of English and Modern Foreign Languages and the Clarence and Bennie Sue Anthony Professor
of Bible and Humanities. “We are thrilled that Margarita is here. She is a really
good scholar, poet and teacher.”
Pintado, who joined the Ouachita faculty in 2012, holds degrees from the University
of Puerto Rico and Emory University. She presented her paper “Reinvención y radicalización
del ser insular en La Novelabingo de Manuel Ramos Otero,” or “The reinvention and the radicalization of Caribbean subjectivity
in La Novelabingo by Manuel Ramos Otero.”
“I argue that in his novel Ramos Otero intentionally destroys any possibility of a
lineal narration by using a poetic language that challenges any ideal of order,” Pintado
explained. “Through an innovative and very difficult language, Ramos Otero turns upside
down our expectations of what a novel should be while proposing new ways to read the
reality of Caribbean subjects.”
For more information on Ouachita’s Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages,
contact Dr. Doug Sonheim at [email protected] or (870) 245-5554.
By Jessica Stewart
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