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The author shares experiences working with Sara Castro-Klarén and discusses her work as one the defining feminist voices in the Latin American field.

Sara Castro-Klarén is a scholar, teacher, mentor, and innovative leader whose work is wide ranging and has had a profound impact on Peruvian literature (particularly José María Arguedas and Mario Vargas Llosa), feminist criticism, colonial studies, and Latin American Cultural Studies. She was practicing cultural studies before cultural studies was a recognized field or approach in Latin American Studies. Though the University of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was founded in 1964, the impact of cultural studies in Latin America (other than in the Caribbean) took some time to emerge but Castro-Klarén was already paving the way.

Sara Castro-Klarén's contribution to the field of the study of the work of José María Arguedas has been key in areas as diverse as biographical, testimonial, and theoretical research. Her literary analyses influenced the interpretation of Arguedas' fiction, insofar as her contributions to the last three decades put his work in dialogue with post- and decolonial criticism, perspectives that question the limits of Western epistemology. For an Arguedian researcher, Professor Castro-Klarén's work has been both a source of historical data and a guide for the direction of research, through what she calls in her classes the formulation of \"compelling questions \" that push the desire of the researchers.

On the occasion of the retirement of Sara Castro-Klarén, this article reflects on the decisive impact and influence of she has had as a scholar of Latin American literature.

In an interview with Juan Zeballos (1995), Sara Castro-Klarén reflects on the emergency conditions of postcolonial positions in the field of Latin Americanism. Then, she notes that, \"our writers\" faced the need to \"write their place\"; for this reason, they had to \"Americanize Spanish and rob it of its ability to deceive (José Martí, Rubén Darío, José Lezama Lima, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento)\" (968–69). Although brief, her sentence accuses that the Spanish noun is the synecdoche that allows us to name the plural language that we write/speak in the singular. For her, dismantling this trope is the first step that Latin Americanists must take before embracing any new theoretical-critical ism. Faithful to his premise, in the last decade, Castro-Klarén has published a series of essays that precisely discuss how to pierce the fixity of that language, advocating recovering the biographies of those who work with the literary expression of \"Spanish.\"

Rosenberg reflects on studying feminist theory as a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins in the mid-1990s, where Professor Sara Castro-Klarén examined the foundations of a feminism thought from the Latin American postcolonial difference. In this paper, Rosenberg explores some texts in which Castro-Klarén elaborates these theoretical lines in a close critical dialogue with academic feminism from the North (American and French), but read from cultural and political practices. Two texts by Argentine authors are discussed, the first fictional and the second testimonial and autofictional, published by independent publishers but which have had enormous repercussions, partly because both resonate, although in a very different way, what the feminist power has raised at macro and micropolitical levels.

This dossier brings together a series of essays and testimonies that dialogue with some of the various lines of research that Sara Castro-Klarén has followed throughout her multifaceted career. Although Castro-Klarén was first interested in the bilingual and cross-cultural work of Arguedas—this is evidenced by his early El mundo mágico de José María Arguedas (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1974; Indigo & Côté-Femmes, 2004)—, her academic interests soon took her in various directions: from the colonial era to the peripheral experiences of postmodernity. And, in each of her seasons, Castro-Klarén never gave up on her relentless analysis of the disciplinary dynamics of Latin Americanism.

Dr. [Sara Castro-Klaren], of McLean, Virginia, is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Earlier, Dr. Castro- Klaren taught at a number of universities including Georgetown, Stanford and Dartmouth and was Chief of the Hispanic Division at The Library of Congress from 1984 to 1986. She has authored, edited, and contributed to a number of books on Latin American topics. Dr.

Dr. [Sara Castro-Klaren], of McLean, Virginia, is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Earlier, Dr. Castro- Klaren taught at a number of universities including Georgetown, Stanford and Dartmouth and was Chief of the Hispanic Division at The Library of Congress from 1984 to 1986. She has authored, edited, and contributed to a number of books on Latin American topics. Dr. Castro-Klaren has participated in several National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and has served as a consultant on Fulbright Fellowships.

Fritzsche reviews Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History by Susan Buck-Morss and edited by John Beverley and Sara Castro-Klaren.