MLL International Scholars Lecture Series
COATLICUE FINALLY RESPONDED TO ME.
THE PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE, AND PURPOSES
OF “AGENCY” BETWEEN RUBÉN BONIFAZ NUÑO AND COATLICUE
By
Heriberto M. Yépez
Experimental Writer, Poet, and Scholar
Thursday, April 2, at 4:10 p.m.
Room 102, STEPS Building
This talk will explore how the experience of non-human agency can occur in a contemporary context involving literature, Pre-Hispanic deities, museums, and multi-media. It will examine a contemporary instance of “idol” agency in which we have relevant information and sufficient context to identify how such a social and psychological phenomenon of agency is imagined, generated, lived, represented, and re-experienced. The talk will discuss several historical processes that triggered a personal experience of non-human agency involving Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, a Mexican contemporary poet and intellectual, and Coatlicue, a Pre-Hispanic deity.
This talk will explore how the experience of non-human agency can occur in a contemporary context involving literature, Pre-Hispanic deities, museums, and multi-media. It will examine a contemporary instance of “idol” agency in which we have relevant information and sufficient context to identify how such a social and psychological phenomenon of agency is imagined, generated, lived, represented, and re-experienced. The talk will discuss several historical processes that triggered a personal experience of non-human agency involving Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, a Mexican contemporary poet and intellectual, and Coatlicue, a Pre-Hispanic deity.
Heriberto M. Yépez is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. His most recent publications are The Empire of Neo-memory, a translation into English of his work on Charles Olson’s travels into Mexico; Eye of Witness. A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, which he co-edited; and the compilation and translation into Spanish of three volumes of writings by Ulises Carrión, the post-Mexican writer and visual artist who wrote in English most of his work. Yépez now lives between Tijuana and the Bay Area.
Co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program
