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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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Gloria Bodtorf Clark – Hispania, 2023
In 1623, Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, a parish priest in Atenango, Mexico, was commissioned by his archbishop to record Nahua beliefs and healing practices for the purpose of denouncing their superstitions and demonic magic. His "Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain," 1629…
Descriptors: Clergy, Catholics, American Indians, Colonialism