Jose Nogales Publishes Book, Wins Award
José Luis Nogales, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has won second place in the ‘Nuestra Améreca’ monograph competition with his book Hijo de todo lo visto y lo vivido: La narrativa breve de Sergio Pitol. The competition is organized by the provincial government of Seville, and José’s book will be published this year by the University of Seville Press. The book is a study of Sergio Pitol’s short fiction. José tells us:
“I focus on the way he consciously uses intertextuality as a literary technique, and how this is related to his ideas about literature, his poetics, his personal canon, and his role in the current Hispanic-American literary system. My aim therefor was to “deprovincialize” Pitol studies by addressing his use of intertextuality, which for him was a deliberate effort to transgress borders (national, literary, and aesthetic).”