Ha fallecido el profesor Carlos Blanco Aguinaga

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SUBJECT: Passing of Professor Carlos Blanco Aguinaga

Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, distinguished literary critic, fiction writer,
and one of the founders of UC San Diego's Literature Department, died in
La Jolla on September 11, 2013.

Born in Irún, in the Basque country, Blanco was 9 years old when he and
his anti-Francoist family became exiles during the struggle between
Republican loyalists and Falangist military forces (Spanish Civil War,
1936-39). The family's journey began in France and eventually led them
to Mexico City in 1938. Blanco went on to receive his B.A. from Harvard
and his Ph.D. from the Colegio de México with a dissertation on the
Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno. Together with Carlos Fuentes, Octavio
Paz and others, Blanco was a cofounder of Revista Mexicana de
Literatura, an internationally preeminent journal of Latin American
letters. Prior to coming to UCSD he held positions at the Colegio de
México, Johns Hopkins, and Ohio State University.

In 1964, he was recruited as a founding member of UC San Diego's
Department of Literature. In the early decades of the La Jolla campus,
he was - to remember just a few of his contributions - faculty advisor
for the Mexican American Youth Association (MAYA; later known as MEChA);
collaborator with Angela Davis and others in the proposal to create the
Lumumba-Zapata College (later Third, now Marshall College); founder of
Third World Studies; defender of exiled Chilean intellectuals after the
military coup of 1973; and always a strong advocate for Chicano and
Latin American studies. At the height of campus activism in the later
1960s, former Chancellor William McGill referred to Blanco as "one of
our most formidable campus radicals." Blanco's influence on many
Chicano/a students is evidenced by his inclusion in the UC San Diego
"Chicano Legacy 40 Años" mural, a mosaic celebrating the Chicano
Movement that was inspired by such figures as Dolores Huerta and Cesar
Chavez. In the 1980s, he also taught in the Facultad de Letras of the
University of the Basque Country (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) in
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. He became Professor Emeritus in 1994.

His experience of exile, political commitment, literary sensibility,
theoretical acumen, and generosity as a colleague and mentor contributed
to make Carlos Blanco Aguinaga an especially influential intellectual,
scholar of Spanish and Latin America literature and creative writer.
Author of many books of literary scholarship, he was especially renowned
for his work on Galdós - La historia y el texto literario: Tres novelas
de Galdós (1978); Unamuno - Unamuno contemplativo (1959 and 1975);
writers of the "Generation of '98" - Juventud del 98 (1970, 1978, and
2000); a Marxist interpretation of Spanish literature (in collaboration
with Iris Zavala y Julio Rodríguez Puértolas) - Historia social de la
literatura española (1978-79); cultural production of the exiled Spanish
community - Ensayos sobre la literature del exilio español (2006) and
Emilio Prados: vida y obra - bibliografia - antologia (1960); and an
influential study of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. His novels, short
stories, and memoirs - also exceptional testimony of his extraordinary
and engaged life across multiple political cultures - include: Un tempo
tuyo (1988; trans. A Time of Your Own, 1997); Carretera de Cuernavaca
(1990); En voz contínua (1997); Ya no bailan los pescadores de Pismo
Beach (1998); Por el mundo: infancia, guerra y principio de un exilio
afortunado (2007); and De mal asiento (2010).

Carlos Blanco Aguinaga is survived by his wife, Iris Blanco Arévalo, his
daughters Alda and Maria Blanco, his son Renato Barahona, and two
grandchildren: Amaya Blanco Ramírez and Ernesto Barahona Mallen. Blanco
was preceded in death by a third grandchild, Isabel Blanco Ramírez. He
also lives on in the hundreds of students and colleagues who had the
privilege to learn from him.

If you are interested in learning of plans to honor the contributions
and memory of Carlos Blanco, please contact Professor Jorge Mariscal of
the Department of Literature.

no se quién es, pero no mola que muera gente con cerebro.

DEP.