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Maddox, John – Hispania, 2017
In times of crisis when literature and world languages are threatened by economic hardship, they should draw closer to African diaspora studies. The African diaspora is so vast, longstanding, and diverse that it must be studied using a comparative, multilingual, interdisciplinary, and international approach that includes study in French,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Multilingualism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Spanish
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Kane, Adrian Taylor – Hispania, 2022
Following several calls in recent scholarship for increased attention to the study of the Central American diaspora in the United States, this article offers readings of Honduran-born author Roberto Quesada's novels "Big Banana" (1999) and "Nunca entres por Miami" (2003). Written in New York City, where he has resided since…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Self Concept, Authors, Immigrants
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Edison, Thomas Wayne – Hispania, 2017
Carmen Montañez's novel "Pelo bueno, pelo malo" acknowledges the struggle that some Caribbean individuals face in accepting their blackness. The novel integrates the union of ancestors with the living, thus reflecting the Bantu concept known as "Muntu". This Puerto Rican novel presents a deep social problem of internalized…
Descriptors: Novels, Blacks, African Culture, Self Concept
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Newcomb, Robert Patrick – Hispania, 2015
A growing number of scholars invested in Iberian Studies are asking how peninsular literary and cultural studies might be reimagined, and reinvigorated, by placing the Spanish and Portuguese canons into critical dialogue with each other, and with Galician, Catalan, Basque/Euskadi, and Latin American and North African immigrant writers, cultural…
Descriptors: Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish Literature, Literature
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Osa-Melero, Lucía; Fernández, Vanessa; Quiñones, Sandra – Hispania, 2019
Detailing the integration of Spanish language teaching in an authentic setting, this article contributes to empirical research on the positive value of community-engaged learning in foreign language pedagogy. "Reading to Play, Playing to Read" is an innovative model for community-engaged teaching that combines learning goals from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mexicans, History Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education