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Does Birth Place Matter? Determinants Of Non-Electoral Civic And Political Engagement, Xóchitl Bada, Kenneth Fujimoto, Joanna Schmit 2011 University of Illinois at Chicago

Does Birth Place Matter? Determinants Of Non-Electoral Civic And Political Engagement, Xóchitl Bada, Kenneth Fujimoto, Joanna Schmit

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Heaven Or The Deep Blue Sea, Holly Edgell 2011 DePaul University

Heaven Or The Deep Blue Sea, Holly Edgell

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Does Age Matter?, María de los Angeles Torres, Kenneth Fujimoto, Nawojka Lesinski 2011 University of Illinois at Chicago

Does Age Matter?, María De Los Angeles Torres, Kenneth Fujimoto, Nawojka Lesinski

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The Spatial Characteristics Of Latino Employment Opportunity For Further Inquiry, Peter A. Creticos 2011 Institute for Work and the Economy

The Spatial Characteristics Of Latino Employment Opportunity For Further Inquiry, Peter A. Creticos

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Encuentros, Summer 2011, Damián Fernández, Guadalupe T. Luna, Sandy López, Michael J. Gonzales 2011 Northern Illinois University

Encuentros, Summer 2011, Damián Fernández, Guadalupe T. Luna, Sandy López, Michael J. Gonzales

Encuentros

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Success Stories Of Students Of Mexican Descent, Wesley Montoya 2011 University of Denver

Success Stories Of Students Of Mexican Descent, Wesley Montoya

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study tells the personal stories of three academically successful students of Mexican descent. The goal of this study was to give a counter to the stereotypical deficit view of Hispanic students in the eyes of teachers, parents, and other students.

The participants were three high school students of Mexican descent attending an urban high school in Colorado. The research question of this study allowed the participants to tell their story of what it was like to be a student. The research question was: What are the personal and academic stories of academically successful Mexican urban high school students?

Through …


Deathly Erichtho As Vital To Lucan’S Bellum Ciuile, John Byron Young 2011 Marshall University

Deathly Erichtho As Vital To Lucan’S Bellum Ciuile, John Byron Young

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile has provided much difficulty for scholars in the identification of a hero, as none of the main characters of the epic, Caesar, Pompey, and Cato, fully become a hero. I argue that a minor character, Erichtho, the necromancer in book 6, is not only the hero, but also the supreme uates and reflection of the poet. Through her comparison with Scaeva in book 6 as well as Aeneas of Vergil’s Aeneid and her interactions with Sextus Pompey, her heroism becomes fully developed. She creates a corpse uates through her vatic powers and gains access into the Underworld …


We Have Something To Say: Ideas And Mobilization In The Migrant Solidarity Movement, Leif Johnson 2011 Macalester College

We Have Something To Say: Ideas And Mobilization In The Migrant Solidarity Movement, Leif Johnson

Latin American Studies Honors Projects

Despite the existence of strong anti-immigrant sentiments across the United States, a movement in solidarity with undocumented migrants has emerged in southern Arizona and other heavily traveled border regions. Based on participatory research with the organization No More Deaths / No Mas Muertes, this thesis works towards an understanding of the ways in which this migrant solidarity movement reframes migration within a highly oppositional ideational space. My research suggests that, when examining movements that strongly reject accepted viewpoints, it is important to understand framing not only through analysis that examines a movement or organization as a whole, but also to …


La Parte Censurada De La Historia De La Provincia De Francisco De Florencia, Jason Dyck 2011 Western University

La Parte Censurada De La Historia De La Provincia De Francisco De Florencia, Jason Dyck

FIMS Publications

Before the Jesuit Francisco de Florencia was able to publish the History of the Province (1694) he was forced to remove several chapters from the second book of the first volume. The section that was cut out of his manuscript reviews the errors of ancient theories on the environment of the New World, the greatness of Mexico City before the Spanish conquest, and the natural abundance of New Spain. This document is extremely valuable because it demonstrates how colonial historians were restricted by state censorship in what they were able to publish on America. The transcription of this censored section …


Spanish In Contact With Arabic, Lotfi Sayahi 2011 University at Albany, State University of New York

Spanish In Contact With Arabic, Lotfi Sayahi

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

Spanish and Arabic have been in contact for long periods and in different regions. While this is largely due to the geographical proximity of the Iberian Peninsula to western North Africa, a set of historical, political and social developments helped bring both languages into close contact. Of remarkable significance was the presence of Arabic in Iberia from 711 to 1492 and, at least, for several more decades after the Reconquista was completed. This fact, as is often mentioned, led to heavy lexical borrowing from Arabic into Spanish and other Ibero-Romance languages. Also important was the introduction of Spanish into North …


Remediation And The Task Of The Translator In The Digital Age Digitally Translating Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie Et Vent Sur Telumee Miracle, Stacey Lynn DiLiberto 2011 University of Central Florida

Remediation And The Task Of The Translator In The Digital Age Digitally Translating Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie Et Vent Sur Telumee Miracle, Stacey Lynn Diliberto

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this qualitative study, I examine the utilization of electronic publication and electronic writing systems to provide new possibilities for the translation of French Caribbean literary texts. Using Simone Schwarz‐Bart's 1972 novel Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle specifically for analysis and exploration, I investigate the potential of digital technology to aid in the production of literary translations that are mindful not only of the dynamics of language, but of French Caribbean women's discourse as well. Since the cultural turn of translation studies, translators need not only be bilingual but bicultural as well, having a discerning knowledge and familiarity of …


Argument Encoding And Pragmatic Marking Of The Transitive Subject In Shiwilu (Kawapanan), Pilar Valenzuela 2011 Chapman University

Argument Encoding And Pragmatic Marking Of The Transitive Subject In Shiwilu (Kawapanan), Pilar Valenzuela

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

Shiwilu (a.k.a. Jebero) is a nearly extinct Kawapanan language from Peruvian Amazonia. The goal of this article is twofold. First, it investigates the obligatory cross-referencing of arguments in the complex Shiwilu verb. This system is predominantly nominative accusative, with the caveat that main clause object markers coincide with those conveying subject in one type of clause involving nominal predicates, as well as subject and object of dependent clauses. Second, this article provides a first analysis of the enclitic =ler, which may attach to transitive subjects and thus exhibits an ergative-like distribution. Unlike the situation in languages with syntacticized ergative systems, …


Editors' Note: The Name Of Las Cosas, Lázaro Lima, Felice Picano 2011 University of Richmond

Editors' Note: The Name Of Las Cosas, LáZaro Lima, Felice Picano

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing seeks to provide a timely and representative archive of queer Latino literary and cultural memory in order to enact a more inclusive "American" literary canon that can apprehend the present and the future of queer Latino literary practice. We have assembled a diverse and representative sample of contemporary queer Latino writing in order to provide a source of pleasure for readers as well as a resource for instructors and students who have too often been deprived of this crucial though underanalyzed component of national literary culture.


The New Task Of The Translator In Contemporary Latin American Fiction: The Case Of Alan Pauls’ The Past, Martín L. Gaspar 2011 Bryn Mawr College

The New Task Of The Translator In Contemporary Latin American Fiction: The Case Of Alan Pauls’ The Past, Martín L. Gaspar

Spanish Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Introducción, Pedro Porbén 2011 Bowling Green State University

Introducción, Pedro Porbén

La BloGoteca de Babel

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El Cuy, Supertiñosa, Y El Comic Hispanoamericano, Pete Lockwood 2011 Bowling Green State University

El Cuy, Supertiñosa, Y El Comic Hispanoamericano, Pete Lockwood

La BloGoteca de Babel

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El Cuy: ¿Una Respuesta O Una Substitución A Los Personajes De Disney?, Lindsay Kay 2011 Bowling Green State University

El Cuy: ¿Una Respuesta O Una Substitución A Los Personajes De Disney?, Lindsay Kay

La BloGoteca de Babel

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Sexualidad Y Sociedad En Los Cómics Contemporáneos, Cory Breth 2011 Bowling Green State University

Sexualidad Y Sociedad En Los Cómics Contemporáneos, Cory Breth

La BloGoteca de Babel

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Monstruosa Belleza’: El Mestizaje Metamórfico En Terra Nostra De Carlos Fuentes., Antonio Barrenechea 2011 University of Mary Washington

Monstruosa Belleza’: El Mestizaje Metamórfico En Terra Nostra De Carlos Fuentes., Antonio Barrenechea

English & Linguistics Articles

Irónicamente, fue en el coloquio estructuralista “Los lenguajes críticos y las ciencias del hombre” que tuvo lugar en la Universidad de Johns Hopkins en 1966, donde Jacques Derrida inició a los Estados Unidos por primera vez en el posestructuralismo. Al final de su ponencia “La estructura, el signo y el juego en el discurso de las ciencias humanas”, la cual ya exigía en el posestructuralismo como una rectificación de las teorías estructuralistas, esbozó su teoría de desconstrucción como la gestación de un monstruo a punto de saltar al mundo desprevenido.


African American Literature By Writers Of Caribbean Descent, Daryl Cumber Dance 2011 University of Richmond

African American Literature By Writers Of Caribbean Descent, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

They dubbed it the Port of No Return. When their ancestors left that port at Elmira Beach, Ghana – or Goree Island, Senegal, or any of a number of similar African ports – and set out on the perilous journey over the ocean to the Americas, there was no going back for the New World Negroes. That is what for most Africans in the Americas was the beginning of their history. Whether resident in a small island nation or in the American colonies, whether under the domain of a British, Spanish, French, or Dutch colonial power, and whether shuttled back …


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