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Gunnels, Bridgette W. – Hispania, 2019
This short-form article introduces the Pre-Texts protocol (Harvard Cultural Agents Initiative) as a way to introduce new texts in class by using creation as a catalyst for reflection and dialogue. This current article briefly describes the benefits of this technique for the present generation of learners and teachers, as well as outlines clearly…
Descriptors: Literacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Polansky, Susan G. – Hispania, 2014
Federico García Lorca's appropriation of the puppet play genre reveals that at the same time he was reaching into deep roots of popular tradition, he also was seeking opportunity to innovate and break free from limitations imposed by the commercial theater scene of the first decades of the twentieth century. Tracing the trajectory of…
Descriptors: Puppetry, Spanish, Authors, Theater Arts
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Patterson, Charles – Hispania, 2015
Teachers of early modern theater often recognize that it is difficult for today's generation of students to approach old dramatic works as actual plays instead of written texts. Two methods for dealing with this difficulty have emerged in recent decades. On the one hand, some teachers have increasingly emphasized the value of performance…
Descriptors: Films, Theater Arts, Spanish Literature, Active Learning
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Minor, Denise – Hispania, 2016
This study examines the impact that membership in a Spanish language theater and poetry troupe had upon a group of Mexican and Chicano university students in terms of the development of academic identities, feelings of belonging, connections with friends and family, and other factors that correlate with academic perseverance. Also examined was the…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Mexicans, College Students, Identification (Psychology)
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Misemer, Sarah M. – Hispania, 2009
Garro's one-act play offers an unusual combination of corpses and animate actors on stage thus combining life and death in the same body. Garro's piece presents students with an approach to "embodying" Mexican culture and its notions of death. The fusion of death and cultural practices in Mexico is a crucial part of the ongoing project for…
Descriptors: Drama, Death, Politics, Latin American Culture