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Cruz, Ailén – Hispania, 2022
Nicolás Guillén's "El gran zoo" (1967), illustrated by Fayad Jamís, was the first Hispanic bestiary to prominently feature humans in a space traditionally inhabited by beasts. Guillén's verses transform the bestiary from a didactic tool used for centuries to instruct and uniform society into a subversive text that openly denounces the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Literature, Literary Genres, Ideology
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Folkart, Jessica A. – Hispania, 2022
Cristina Fernández Cubas's short story "La nueva vida" ("La habitación de Nona" 2015) foregrounds the play between truth and fiction, past and present, and death and identity, where the widowed protagonist finds meaning not in philosophy, but in physics. Widowed in 2007 at age 62, Fernández Cubas focalized this story through…
Descriptors: Spanish Literature, Literary Genres, Fiction, Physics
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Phillips, Nick – Hispania, 2021
This essay examines the state of Digital Humanities work in the subfield of literature from the Spanish speaking world. It provides a case study of a multiyear digital mapping project conducted with undergraduate students at a highly selective liberal arts college. This project serves as a means of examining the digital state of the field and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Fiction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction