About
Ana Sabau is Assistant Professor of Spanish. Her research focuses on the study of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin American written and visual culture, with a special emphasis on Mexico. Her first book manuscript,The Race War Paradigm: Riot and Rebellion in Mexico, is currently under review. The book studies the making of “race war” as a political paradigm and argues that appeals to the alleged threat of racial uprisings were crucial in mediating Mexico’s complicated transition from a colony of the Spanish Empire to an independent nation-state. The Race War Paradigm challenges conventional histories on the erosion of racial boundaries in Mexico by arguing that after Independence, colonial racializing practices and policies were continuously adapted by the new government in order to contain and repress popular demands—riots, rebellions, even civil wars—for freedom and democracy. She is the author of numerous articles published in collected volumes and peer-reviewed journals like the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Other research interests include studying the histories of labor and property as they intersect with processes of racialization. She is specifically interested in exploring Mexico’s insertion in the global networks of indentured and convict labor; as well as the question of social reproduction and domestic work.
Selected publications:
Edited volumes:
Between Revolution and Democracy: José Aricó, Marxism, and Latin America, co-edited and co-translated with Colectivo Aricó (Leiden: Brill’s Historical Materialism Book Series, forthcoming 2016).
Ensayando el ensayo: artilugios del género en la literatura mexicana contemporánea. Mayra Fortes y Ana Sabau Eds. El Paso, Tx: Editorial Eón/El Colegio de Puebla, 2013.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters:
“José Aricó como lector de Gramsci,” co-authored with Gavin Arnall and Susana Draper. Gramsci en las orillas (Buenos Aires: La Cebra, forthcoming 2015).
“El espectro de Trotsky: Política y escritura en Tres tristes tigres de Guillermo Cabrera Infante”. Revista Iberoamericana. Num 250 (Enero-Marzo 2015) 109-123.
“Ideas para el siglo XIX: Espiritismo”. Gaceta Frontal. (Julio 2015). Online Journal. http://gacetafrontal.com/2015/07/07/ideas-para-el-xix-espiritismo/
Research Areas(s)
- Latin American Studies, Mexico
- Literary and Cultural Theory
- Visual and Material Culture
- Indigenous Studies
- History of Science and Technology
- Religion and Politics
- Enlightenment
- Feminism
