Mission Statement

Published annually by graduate students of the University of California at Davis, under the auspices of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Brújula is an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Latin American literary studies. This journal seeks to foster a dialogue between established academics and a new generation of scholars, while including original essays from a variety of fields such as linguistics, anthropology, history, native american studies, comparative literature, art, music, spanish, and sociology. With each issue, Brújula intends to highlight a theme of relevance in current debates and to create a forum that explores transnational perspectives to critical approaches.

Bajo los auspicios del Instituto Hemisférico de las Américas y con un enfoque literario nace Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos. Abierta a la discusión crítica entre diferentes generaciones y líneas de pensamiento, el objetivo de esta publicación se concentra en la articulación de un eje donde trabajen en común distintas disciplinas como son Antropología, Historia, arte, Música, Lingüística, Sociología y Estudios Indígenas. Bajo tal premisa Brújula propone dedicar cada número a un tema de destacado interés intelectual con el fin de provocar la reflexión desde diferentes perspectivas tanto teóricas como transnacionales.

Publicado anualmente por estudantes de graduação da Universidade da California Davis, sob o auspicio do Instituto Hemisferico das Americas, Brújula é um jornal interdisciplinar com enfoque em estudos literários da América Latina. Este jornal procura manter um dialogo entre acadêmicos estabelecidos e uma nova geração de “scholars”, através da inclusão de textos originais de uma variedade de disciplinas tais como a linguística, antropologia, música, historia, arte, estudos indígenas e sociologia. Em cada publicação, Brújula pretende dar ênfase a um tema de relevância em debates atuais e criar um fórum que explore perspectivas transnacionais de analise critica.

Editorial Committee

University of California, Davis
Ana Alonso-Minutti
Febe Armendáriz
Belén Bistué
Mary Dill Curtis
Claudia Darrigrandi
Christopher Krupa
Vanessa Pérez
Juan Manuel Portillo
Valentina Velázquez

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pablo Whipple

Advisory Committee

University of California, Davis
Emilio Bejel
Marc Blanchard
Linda Egan
Inés Hernández-Ávila
Thomas Holloway
Neil Larsen
Zoila Mendoza
Victor Montejo
Ana Peluffo
Stefano Varese
Charles Walker

Columbia University
Carlos J. Alonso
Graciela Montaldo

University of Richmond
Álvaro Kaempfer

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
María Emma Mannarelli

Wofford College
Laura Barbas-Rhoden

Clark University
Marvin D'Lugo

The University at Albany, SUNY
Jacinto Fombona

Universidad Central de Venezuela
Daniel Mato

Princeton University
Ricardo Piglia

Universidad de Alicante
Kevin Clark Power

Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas
Ricardo Roque

University of California, Riverside
Leonora Saavedra

University of Cincinnati
Nicasio Urbina

University of Notre Dame
Hugo Verani

Acknowledgements
We would like to express our gratitude to the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas (HIA), the Department of Spanish and Classics, the Chicana/Latina Research Center (C/LRC), the Comparative Literature Program, and the Davis Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis who generously supported this project. We also would like to thank Fundación Pan Klub–Museo Xul Solar for their permission to reproduce the image of “Ciudad Lagui” on the front cover. Finally, our special thanks go to Delfina Redfield and Jessica Guzmán for their dedication and assistance.

Cover art
" Ciudad Lagui" 1939 (watercolor) by Xul Solar. Derechos Reservados Fundación Pan Klub - Museo Xul Solar.

Design, Mary Dill Curtis

Web Site Administration
Jorge Andrade

Correspondence
Address all business correspondence, including requests for permission to reproduce material from the journal and advertising to the Editorial Committee to: Brújula, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8576 or e-mail us at brujula@ucdavis.edu

Brújula is indexed in the Modern Language Association Index.
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