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Frizzi, Adria – Hispania, 2016
In this article, Adria Frizzi provides a brief overview of Fred Ellison's work in the field of literary translation. Frizzi does so by outlining Ellison's trajectory as a translator--highlighting how his choices in this area of his scholarship fit into a broader, multipronged approach to the study and diffusion of the language, culture, and…
Descriptors: Translation, Latin American Literature, Scholarship, Novels
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Thompson, Hilary H.; Smith, Austin; Ostos, Manuel; Gardinier, Lisa – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Inspired by the 2017 Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Conference's collective collection theme, the authors undertook a study to better understand the consortium's resource-sharing needs for Spanish and Portuguese materials published in Latin America. The authors employed multiple technologies to expedite gathering, reconciling, and analyzing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Library Materials, Library Services
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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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Ramos, Juan G. – Hispania, 2016
This current study explores the relationship between visual technology (cinema and photography) and a metanarrative preoccupation with the craft of literary narration in two texts by Pablo Palacio (Ecuador, 1906-47). In his novella "Débora" (1927), Palacio employs the language of cinema (e.g., the cinematograph, the cinema, references to…
Descriptors: Authors, Films, Photography, Narration
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Jupp, James C.; Berumen, Freyca Calderón; O'Donald, Karla – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2018
Through our understanding of decolonizing Hispanophone curriculum, our synoptic rendering seeks to better situate US-based research on testimonio within Latin American literary traditions. Specifically, we provide a synoptic rendering that outlines the testimonio tradition's literary criticism and an analysis of key testimonio texts. Of particular…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Literary Criticism, Research Methodology, Critical Theory
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Myers, Megan Jeanette – Hispania, 2017
This article charts the similarities between the first short story appearance in 1839 of what later became Cirilo Villaverde's well-known nineteenth-century novel, "Cecilia Valdés" (1882), and Anselmo Suárez y Romero's "Carlota Valdés" (1838). The study considers the circle of influence in Cuba for writers during this time…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Novels, Fiction, Cubans
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González, Flora M. – Hispania, 2017
In her 2010 novel "Sangra por la herida," the Cuban novelist, poet, and essayist Mirta Yáñez constructs a panoramic view of metropolitan Havana, following the model of Latin American fiction starting in the 1980s based on a revised version of the detective novel. "Sangra por la herida" functions best as a narrative that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin American Literature, Novels, Urban Areas
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Garza, Raul; Eufracio, Gricelda; Jupp, James C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Our essay sketches resistant, transnational, and translanguaging traditions of the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), Aztlán and conjugates them with our critical curricular-pedagogical praxis. After an introductory section, we frame our essay between transnational intellectual traditions and critical place-based pedagogies. Following our framings, we…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Place Based Education
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Ortiz-Loyola, Brenda – Hispania, 2017
Historically, black women's hair has been a site where power and social relations are defined. In Puerto Rico, cultural production has been critical in perpetuating as well as in contesting the prevailing white European ideal of beauty and its impact on women's hairstyling practices. Nevertheless, the link between aesthetic preferences and the…
Descriptors: Race, Novels, Physical Characteristics, Spanish
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Perrone, Charles A. – Hispania, 2016
This article briefly describes Fred P. Ellison's ground breaking contributions in Brazilian literary studies in North America. Further, his key role in the development of Brazilian Portuguese language instruction is highlighted, along with the numerous scholarly connections he made in the the field of Luso-Brazilian Studies.
Descriptors: Latin American Literature, Portuguese, Second Language Instruction, Latin American Culture
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Brown, Angela Khristin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
There is a good child, of any race, who is bullied. And as he grows older, He joins a hate group or a gang too, was bullied by every race, who bullied me. And as I grew older fought for equality for everyone. This is why I became an activist. Thesis why I am a poet. God asks are unwilling to die, fighting for what you believe. This is where I…
Descriptors: Poetry, African American Literature, Latin American Literature, Language Usage
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Anzzolin, Kevin – Hispania, 2017
This article examines Octavio Paz's canonical study of Mexican identity, "El laberinto de la soledad", against the backdrop of the current political environment in the United States; it interrogates how we can make Paz's rich, ambitious text meaningful for today's undergraduates. How can we teach "El laberinto de la soledad" in…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Mexicans, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students
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David S. Nolen – College & Research Libraries, 2014
This study examined references found in three journals in the field of Spanish and Latin American literary studies. Few previous studies have examined types of publishers producing highly cited/referenced books. The data indicate that the primary publishers of scholarly monographs referenced in the journals are U.S. university presses, foreign…
Descriptors: Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Periodicals, Citations (References)
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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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Beaule, Christine D.; Quintana, Benito – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2017
We argue for an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach that we call the Integration of Research and Education in the Classroom, which highlights and crosses disciplinary boundaries to challenge each field's assumptions, limitations, conceptual and interpretive purview. We use a set of examples that center on problematizing various aspects of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Policy, Archaeology
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