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Cuba En Cambio: Shifting Ideas Of Cuban National Identity, Nancy Brill
Cuba En Cambio: Shifting Ideas Of Cuban National Identity, Nancy Brill
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
For most people outside of Cuba, the island carries an air, and allure, of the unknown. Following Castro’s 1959 socialist revolution, the country underwent a whirlwind transition from a small Caribbean nation with little international sway to the world’s longest standing socialist experiment. As Cuba’s unique political, economic, and cultural shifts forced the construction and reconstruction of its people’s national identity, narratives from Cubans on and off the island portray these shifting conceptions of what it means to be Cuban, and how these various conceptions of national identity affect the relationship between Cubans around the world.
Review Of: Rethinking Community From Peru: The Political Philosophy Of José María Arguedas By Irina Alexandra Feldman, Blanca Aranda Gómez García Ph.D
Review Of: Rethinking Community From Peru: The Political Philosophy Of José María Arguedas By Irina Alexandra Feldman, Blanca Aranda Gómez García Ph.D
Modern & Classical Languages
Este libro parte del presupuesto de que, en la novela Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas,existe un diálogo fluido entre las herramientas narrativas, propias a un género literario, y las estrategias discursivas, propias al pensamiento político. A partir del análisis de varios de los personajes y acciones de la novela, Irina Alexandra Feldman nos invita a reformular los conceptos de comunidad, subjetividad política, soberanía, norma jurídica y cambio revolucionario en elcontexto de los Andes. La convergencia entre la realidad histórica y la ficción narrativa, no solonos ayuda a considerar la “Mesa redonda sobre Todas las sangres”, de 1965, …
Prologue For Retrato Y Autorretrato Literario Indígena: Resistencia Y Autonomía En Las Américas By Roberto E. Arroyo, Blanca Aranda Gómez García Ph.D
Prologue For Retrato Y Autorretrato Literario Indígena: Resistencia Y Autonomía En Las Américas By Roberto E. Arroyo, Blanca Aranda Gómez García Ph.D
Modern & Classical Languages
Retrato y autorretrato literario indígena: resistencia y autonomía en las Américas nos introduce en la formación del imaginario andino desde una perspectiva renovada. A partir de conceptos propios a la disciplina de la pintura Roberto E. Arroyo nos invita a detenernos en el tema de la representación. El análisis de las distintas propuestas, entorno al desarrollo de la construcción del sujeto indígena en la literatura desde el siglo XVI hasta el presente, reúne textos que plasman la lucha por la supervivencia cultural y destacan la necesidad de un cambio en las relaciones interculturales.
Avatares De La Suciedad Colonial. La Ciudad De México En Los Siglos Xvii Y Xviii, Hugo Garcia
Avatares De La Suciedad Colonial. La Ciudad De México En Los Siglos Xvii Y Xviii, Hugo Garcia
Modern & Classical Languages
Los disímiles discursos que fueran producidos en la Nueva España durante los siglos XVII y XVIII certifican la complejidad de los procesos de colonización y formación de la sociedad del primer virreinato del imperio español. Cada uno de ellos muestra un acercamiento particular a la realidad novohispana; muchos de ellos, según su medio particular de expresión y su designio, se acercará de manera diferente a un sistema de valores coloniales asimilados a una escala interpretativa que oscila entre la limpieza y la suciedad. Esta última parece ser una constante de particular valor en medio de los desencuentros culturales que se …
Linguistic Demography And Attitudinal Dimensions Of Intergenerational Transmission Of Guaraní And Spanish In Paraguay, Shaw N. Gynan
Linguistic Demography And Attitudinal Dimensions Of Intergenerational Transmission Of Guaraní And Spanish In Paraguay, Shaw N. Gynan
Modern & Classical Languages
Language data from the 2002 Paraguayan census ate analyzed in order to determine differential patterns of intergenerational transmission of Guaraní and Spanish. The census data are interpreted in light of the results of a survey of 168 bilingual parents on their language identity, language attitudes and language practices. In households identified by the census as Guaraní-dominant, a majority of children is reported to speak only Spanish. The vast majority of parents reports using a single language in the home. The sample that was surveyed for the language attitudes study consisted of couples who identified themselves as either Guaraní-dominant, Spanish-dominant or …
Review Of: A Grammar Of Kwaza, Edward J. Vajda
Review Of: A Grammar Of Kwaza, Edward J. Vajda
Modern & Classical Languages
This fundamental account of Kwaza, an unclassified language spoken by twenty five people in a remote area of Brazil’s state of Rondoˆnia, makes a superb addition in every way. Based primarily on the author’s extensive fieldwork from 1995 to 2002, it contains a thorough analysis of all aspects of the phonology, morphology, and syntax. It also provides useful commentary on varied aspects of the speakers’ culture and history, likewise hitherto barely remarked upon in any publication. Before the author’s work, documentation of this critically endangered language was limited to three brief word lists compiled in 1938, 1943, and 1984—data the …
Review Of: Maipure, Edward J. Vajda
Review Of: Maipure, Edward J. Vajda
Modern & Classical Languages
Maipure is an Arawakan language that became extinct before the end of the eighteenth century. Formerly spoken in what is today Venezuela's Amazon's Province, Maipure is largely known from information recorded by priests or missionaries. Chief among these was Father Filippo Salvatore Gilij, who left extensive notes about a number of languages of the Orinoco Basin. Other key sources are attributable to Lorenzo Hervais y Panduro. Both of these men published their original descriptions in Italian. The author of the present grammatical sketch is also a native speaker of Italian and was easily able to make full use of all …
Review Of: Handbook Of Amazonian Languages, Edward J. Vajda
Review Of: Handbook Of Amazonian Languages, Edward J. Vajda
Modern & Classical Languages
Building upon the best tradition of missionary-inspired descriptive linguistic work fostered in connection with Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) activities, editors Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum launched HAL during the mid1980s as a means of attracting scholarly attention to one of the world's most persistently ignored linguistic areas. With the appearance of Vol. 4, HAL coverage of the Amazon now increases to three typological studies, four historical-comparative analyses, and ten grammatical descriptions of languages belonging to eight different genetic groupings. Unfortunately, this tally barely begins to approach exhaustive coverage of the region, since the rain forests of South America are …
Review Of: Handbook Of Amazonian Languages, Edward J. Vajda
Review Of: Handbook Of Amazonian Languages, Edward J. Vajda
Modern & Classical Languages
This thick book is the first supplement to the Handbook of Amazonian languages (henceforward, HAL) to appear in nearly a decade. Building upon the best tradition of missionary-inspired descriptive linguistic work fostered in connection with Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) activities, editors Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum launched HAL during the mid1980s as a means of attracting scholarly attention to one of the world's most persistently ignored linguistic areas. With the appearance of Vol. 4, HAL coverage of the Amazon now increases to three typological studies, four historical-comparative analyses, and ten grammatical descriptions of languages belonging to eight different genetic …
Love And Sex In Mario Vargas Llosa's 'Quien Mato A Palomino Molero?', Brent Carbajal
Love And Sex In Mario Vargas Llosa's 'Quien Mato A Palomino Molero?', Brent Carbajal
Modern & Classical Languages
Mario Vargas Llosa's murder mystery "Quien mato a Palomino Molero?", while certainly as entertaining an example of its genre as one would expect from an author of such universally acknowledged narrative skill, is ultimately less a tale of complicated sleuthing than it is a commentary on collective corruption, social injustice and base human nature. Against a sharply defined backdrop of the class system in his native Peru, Vargas Llosa registers in this novel the socio-political reality that oppresses the individual by limiting his opportunities, both personal and professional, and dooming to failure any attempt to escape the mandates of systemic …