We were still in graduate school, which means that ours was a friendship that spanned more than two. It was at this point that I met Felix at one of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conferences. ![]() In 1982 he arrived in the United States to begin graduate studies at the University of Kentucky, where his distinguished doctoral career unfolded under the direction and mentorship of the renowned colonialist Daniel Reedy. In the mid-70s, Felix moved to Cali, where he completed his Licenciatura at the Universidad del Valle while teaching school at the same time. Growing up as part of a large family in the Cauca Valley in western Colombia, one of the most beautiful areas of that vast and exuberant country, may have contributed to his enviable sense of calm, quiet sense of humor, and profound appreciation for the natural world. 1 Elegía a Ramón Sijé forma parte del poemario El rayo que no cesa, obra escrita por Miguel Hernández ,escritor perteneciente a la generación del 27. ![]() ![]() both of which suffered an enormous loss with his passing.įelix, as he was known to his friends, was born in Cartago, Colombia. "como del rayo," as the Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez put it in his "Elegia a Ramon Sije." With this special edition of the South Atlantic Review we hope to honor the life and work of our dear friend, valued colleague, and ground-breaking scholar of colonial Latin American Studies and Colombian Studies. In May 2007 Hispanism lost a scholar of great intelligence, humility, and dedication when Alvaro Felix Bolanos passed away tragically and unexpectedly.
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