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Love, Memory and Being in Octavio Paz's Piedra de sol

DECADE AWARD SPEAKER
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Irvine

Presents

Love, Memory and Being in Octavio Paz's
Piedra de sol

A Public Lecture in English by

Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval

Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at California
State University, Fresno. He is an alumnus of the University of California, Irvine.
His research explores how notions of absolute essence and the quest for a priori
knowledge have established a symbolic order of inferior and superior values within
gender, racial and economic spheres. His analyses of literature are influenced by
deconstructionist and post-colonial theories, as these theories afford a theoretical
and metaphorical space in which to explore the possibility of being a subject-in-
process that is not constricted by a stagnant ontology. He has published on Luís
Vaz de Camões, José Emilio Pacheco, and Octavio Paz. He is currently working
on an article on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.