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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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Ruiz-Funes, Marcela – 1999
A significant number of Hispanic children's books and juvenile short stories and novels produced in the last two decades reveal the social and cultural elements that affect the lives, traditions, and beliefs of young adults from Spanish-speaking countries. These books contain sociocultural realism, yet with a touch of the innocence and freshness…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education