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Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies Of Identity In El Hombre Del Acordeón, Julie A. Sellers
Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies Of Identity In El Hombre Del Acordeón, Julie A. Sellers
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Boundaries are never as definitive as they appear at first glance, for they create a broader zone, the borderlands, where the people, practices, and products from both sides comingle. Despite boundaries' demarcating intent, the borderlands they cross are a syncretic blend of the lands on each side. The borderland as fictional setting draws our attention not to the fixedness of boundaries, but rather to their flexibility. Set in the Dominican-Haitian borderland, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's El hombre del acordeón ('The Accordion Man') draws upon the dynamism of that geopolitical border to call into question other apparently definitive boundaries, thus challenging official …
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, 2012. xv + 314 pp.
Teaching “Global Learning” Through The Ecotestimonio: Ojos Negros By Eduardo Sguiglia In Class, Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Teaching “Global Learning” Through The Ecotestimonio: Ojos Negros By Eduardo Sguiglia In Class, Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay uses Eduardo Sguiglia’s Ojos negros (‘Black Eyes,’ 2010), a border-crossing, transnational ecotestimonial novel, to demonstrate step-by-step how instructors can effectively use ecotestimonial narratives in teaching undergraduate students to achieve global learning outcomes. Ecotestimonial texts prompt readers, and especially those readers removed from problems depicted, to confront the multiple facets of wicked problems of environmental degradation and to become aware of how the representation (or lack of representation) of those problems in different contexts shapes social responses to them. By moving students intentionally from comprehension of narrative and context to a focus on higher order thinking and on the …