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Full-Text Articles in Latin American Languages and Societies
El Protagonista Negro En La Narrativa Antiesclavista Latinoamericana Del Siglo Xix, Nydia Jeffers
El Protagonista Negro En La Narrativa Antiesclavista Latinoamericana Del Siglo Xix, Nydia Jeffers
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Abolitionist literature published in Latin America in the 19th century has received considerable critical attention, much of it focused on the reader’s compassionate response to the alienated slave, such as Sab. However, little known works sometimes end with the slave’s nonviolent rebellion being rewarded. For example, in the short story “La Sibila de los Andes” (1840) by Fermín Toro the fugitive slave survives as a free woman. In the novel Florencio Conde (1875) by José María Samper, the slave negotiates with the master to obtain his freedom and eventually becomes wealthy. These works promote the abolitionist cause because in them …
Latinos And The Future Of Nebraska, Lissette Aliaga-Linares
Latinos And The Future Of Nebraska, Lissette Aliaga-Linares
Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
No abstract provided.
Boletín V.19:No.1 (2013), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín V.19:No.1 (2013), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)
No abstract provided.
Latin-America, Mauricio E. Novoa
Latin-America, Mauricio E. Novoa
Student Publications
A poem describing the Prince George's County and Montgomery County Latin American communities in Maryland.
Fearless (Saturday): Michael Hannum, Michael W. Hannum
Fearless (Saturday): Michael Hannum, Michael W. Hannum
SURGE
In celebration of Alumni Homecoming Weekend and Hispanic Heritage Week, we proudly feature Michael Hannum, member of the Class of 2011, for his fearless commitment to fighting for social justice issues and his continued involvement in serving the Adams County community. Currently working with the Lincoln Intermediate Unit’s Migrant Education Program as a Recruitment Coordinator, Michael began finding his passion for helping identify families in the migrant community who need extra educational support when he was a first-year student just looking for something to do. [excerpt]
The Mayaarch3d Project: A 3d Webgis For Analyzing Ancient Architecture And Landscapes, Jennifer Von Schwerin, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Fabio Remondino, Giorgio Agugario, Gabrio Girardi
The Mayaarch3d Project: A 3d Webgis For Analyzing Ancient Architecture And Landscapes, Jennifer Von Schwerin, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Fabio Remondino, Giorgio Agugario, Gabrio Girardi
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
There is a need in the humanities for a 3D WebGIS with analytical tools that allow researchers to analyze 3D models linked to spatially referenced data. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow for complex spatial analysis of 2.5D data. For example, they offer bird’s eye views of landscapes with extruded building footprints, but one cannot ‘get on the ground’ and interact with true 3D models from a pedestrian perspective. Meanwhile, 3D models and virtual environments visualize data in 3D space, but analytical tools are simple rotation or lighting effects. The MayaArch3D Project is developing a 3D WebGIS—called QueryArch3D—to allow these two …
Boletín V.18:No.3 (2013), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín V.18:No.3 (2013), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)
No abstract provided.
Post-Revolutionary Post-Modernism: Central American Detective Fiction By The Turn Of The 21st Century, Gael Guzman-Medrano
Post-Revolutionary Post-Modernism: Central American Detective Fiction By The Turn Of The 21st Century, Gael Guzman-Medrano
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Contemporary Central American fiction has become a vital project of revision of the tragic events and the social conditions in the recent history of the countries from which they emerge. The literary projects of Sergio Ramirez (Nicaragua), Dante Liano (Guatemala), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and Ramon Fonseca Mora (Panama), are representative of the latest trends in Central American narrative. These trends conform to a new literary paradigm that consists of an amalgam of styles and discourses, which combine the testimonial, the historical, and the political with the mystery and suspense of noir thrillers. Contemporary Central American noir narrative depicts …
Pedagogía De Hablantes De Herencia: Implicaciones Para El Entrenamiento De Instructores Al Nivel Universitario, Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado
Pedagogía De Hablantes De Herencia: Implicaciones Para El Entrenamiento De Instructores Al Nivel Universitario, Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study researches the differences in pedagogical needs between learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language (FL learners) and learners of Spanish as a Heritage Language (HL learners) at the university level. By using the UNL Modern Languages and Literatures Department as an illustrative case and based on an analysis of the Heritage Language student profile in the context of the United States, this study seeks to explore arguments in favor of providing training for university-level instructors of Spanish that responds to the specific pedagogical needs of Heritage Language Learners.
The relevancy of this study is not only based on …
Does Selective Migration Explain The Hispanic Paradox?: A Comparative Analysis Of Mexicans In The U.S. And Mexico, Georgiana Bostean
Does Selective Migration Explain The Hispanic Paradox?: A Comparative Analysis Of Mexicans In The U.S. And Mexico, Georgiana Bostean
Sociology Faculty Articles and Research
Latino immigrants, particularly Mexican, have some health advantages over U.S.-born Mexicans and Whites. Because of their lower socioeconomic status, this phenomenon has been called the epidemiologic “Hispanic Paradox.” While cultural theories have dominated explanations for the Paradox, the role of selective migration has been inadequately addressed. This study is among the few to combine Mexican and U.S. data to examine health selectivity in activity limitation, self-rated health, and chronic conditions among Mexican immigrants, ages 18 and over. Drawing on theories of selective migration, this study tested the “healthy migrant” and “salmon-bias” hypotheses by comparing the health of Mexican immigrants in …
What The Unglamorous Side Of Study Abroad Taught Me, Kathryn E. Bucolo
What The Unglamorous Side Of Study Abroad Taught Me, Kathryn E. Bucolo
SURGE
I’ve been gallivanting around this beautiful planet posing as a study abroad student taking classes and writing papers for the past academic year, one semester in England and one in Argentina (where I still am) and, just like all the brochures, promotions, and panels of study abroad survivors say, it has been absolutely chock-full of amazing experiences, people, places, foods—I think “transformative” is the proper term.
But transformative can mean many things. It doesn’t just mean that you “find yourself” or “change your life”—it means you see the less glamorous stuff about yourself, too. [excerpt]
Robin Hood Or Villain: The Social Constructions Of Pablo Escobar, Jenna Bowley
Robin Hood Or Villain: The Social Constructions Of Pablo Escobar, Jenna Bowley
Honors College
Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord and leader of the Medellin Cartel which at one point controlled as much as 80% of the international cocaine trade. He is famous for waging war against the Colombian government in his campaign to outlaw extradition of criminals to the United State and ordering the assassination of countless individuals, including police officers, journalists, and high ranking officials and politicians. He is also well known for investing large sums of his fortune in charitable public works, including the construction of schools, sports fields and housing developments for the urban poor. While U.S. and Colombian …
El Esclavo Y El Letrado: Máscaras De La Auto-Representación En La Temprana Narrativa Antiesclavista Cubana, Maria A. Aguilar-Dornelles
El Esclavo Y El Letrado: Máscaras De La Auto-Representación En La Temprana Narrativa Antiesclavista Cubana, Maria A. Aguilar-Dornelles
Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship
Los tres textos aquí discutidos, Autobiografía de un esclavo,Francisco y Sab,narran la experiencia de la esclavitud desde la perspectiva del esclavo.Sinembargo, laperspectiva del narrador de Autobiografía de un esclavopermite establecer una distancia ideológica con la imagen del esclavo creada por Suárez y Romero y Gómez de Avellaneda. A pesar de que Autobiografíafue editada y alterada para adecuarla a la norma lingüística de la ciudad letrada, es posible identificar estrategias de negociación y desafío a la autoridad de los intelectuales que intentaron controlar sus condiciones de emisión y difusión.A este respecto, elnarradorno enfatiza lavictimizacióndel esclavo, como síhacen Suárez y Romero y …
Blood In The Water: Salvadoran Rivers Of Testimony And Resistance, Adrian Taylor Kane
Blood In The Water: Salvadoran Rivers Of Testimony And Resistance, Adrian Taylor Kane
World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations
From the 1970s to the early 1990s the dominant forms of literary production in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were testimonial literature and literature of resistance. During this time period, all three of these Central American countries were embroiled in bloody civil wars, and the written word was employed on the cultural front as a means of denouncing and resisting various forms of oppression. For both historical and artistic reasons, rivers frequently play an important role in cultural production from and about this era and have thus become embedded in the complex web of ideological signifiers that comprises the discursive …
Quechuañol: Préstamos Lexicales En El Quechua De Cochabamba, Kyle Coombs
Quechuañol: Préstamos Lexicales En El Quechua De Cochabamba, Kyle Coombs
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This essay is a supplement for Imatataj tata intiqa rikun? or What Does Papa Sun See? in English. The essay explains the methodology used to collect data and write this children’s book. The investigation focuses on lexical borrows from Spanish to Cochabambino Quechua. Using a drawing of a farm, these borrowed words are found in an area, agriculture, which existed before the Spanish arrived. Many borrowings replace historic words of Quechua. The essay and book recognize that language can change and does not judge the ways that Quechua has changed. The investigation concludes that there are many borrowed words, but …
Boletín V.18:No.2 (2013), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín V.18:No.2 (2013), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)
No abstract provided.
Identity, Engagement, And The Space Of The River In Cumandá, Lee Joan Skinner
Identity, Engagement, And The Space Of The River In Cumandá, Lee Joan Skinner
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
In Juan León Mera’s Cumandá, o un drama entre salvajes (Ecuador, 1879), the River Pastaza and the journeys the novel’s characters take on it form the centerpiece of the narrative. The novel presents rivers as problematic, problematized spaces of shifting meanings. The river is a space of mediation between humans and the natural world, a landscape that both supports humans and is inimical to them. Thus the eponymous, indigenous heroine of Mera’s novel at first navigates the Pastaza with exceptional grace, and yet, once she rejects her clan and tribe, she is unable to traverse the river as easily as …
Multiculturalism And Racialization In Latin America And The Caribbean, Bernd Reiter
Multiculturalism And Racialization In Latin America And The Caribbean, Bernd Reiter
Government and International Affairs Faculty Publications
This article, which is based on a keynote address, delivered for the 2nd International Congress of Caribbean Studies, held at the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, in August of 2012, argues that Caribbean nations are in dire need to analyze and deconstruct the foundational myths upon which their national unities were constructed after achieving independence. This process is under way in such countries as Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, but has not been carried out for most Caribbean nations, maybe with the exception of Cuba. Where such efforts have not been pursued vigorously, myths of racial harmony tend to prevail. These …
Blessed Are The Peacemakers: Transnational Alliance, Protective Accompaniment And The Presbyterian Church Of Colombia, Michael C. Brasher
Blessed Are The Peacemakers: Transnational Alliance, Protective Accompaniment And The Presbyterian Church Of Colombia, Michael C. Brasher
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis was to explore how Christian networks enable strategies of transnational alliance, whereby groups in different nations strive to strengthen one another’s leverage and credibility in order to resolve conflicts and elaborate new possibilities. This research does so by analyzing the case of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia (IPC). The project examines the historical development of the IPC from the initial missionary period of the 1850s until the present. Specifically, the purpose of the study was to consider how the historical struggle to articulate autonomy and equality vis-à-vis the U.S. Presbyterians (PCUSA) and paternalist models of …
Criollismo Femenino Y Mestizaje En Mah Rap De Malín D’Echevers, Claudia García
Criollismo Femenino Y Mestizaje En Mah Rap De Malín D’Echevers, Claudia García
Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications
Este ensayo propone una lectura de Mah Rap (1946) de la guatemalteca Malín D’Echevers, que articula l novela con la teosofía, el regeneracionismo y el feminismo moderado de la época, mostrando cómo la autora constituye una versión femenina del criollismo. A partir del cruce de este género con elementos de la novela sentimental y la hist6rica, y recurriendo a elementos autobiograficos que determinan una cercanía personal o familiar con el material histórico así como una simpatía interior con el mundo indígena plasmados en la novela, D’Echevers se desvía de los tópicos del criollismo masculino e inscribe la progresiva incursión femenina …
Brusco's "The Reformation Of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion And Gender In Colombia" - Book Review, Deborah Berho
Brusco's "The Reformation Of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion And Gender In Colombia" - Book Review, Deborah Berho
Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies
Book review of Elizabeth Brusco's The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia.
Archiveras Anarquistas: Corporal Testimony In The Work Of Diamela Eltit, Megan L. Corbin
Archiveras Anarquistas: Corporal Testimony In The Work Of Diamela Eltit, Megan L. Corbin
Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications
There exists a constant within the trajectory of Diamela Eltit’s contributions to New Chilean Fiction: the turn to the body’s revelatory capacity as a corporal archive of human existence. Simultaneously exploring and rejecting the confines of the traditional testimonial reliance on language, Eltit moves the reader to a reconsideration of the truth-telling function of the biological materiality of the body, placing imperfect corporalities on display as a means of speaking, even where the voice itself may falter. This essay locates Eltit’s move to the corporal within the trajectory of feminist criticism, the traumatic realities of the Chilean dictatorship and post-dictatorship …
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 …
Geospatial Virtual Heritage: A Gesture-Based 3d Gis To Engage The Public With Ancient Maya Archaeology, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Jim Robertsson, Jennifer Von Schwerin, Giorgio Agugario, Fabio Remondino, Gabrio Girardi
Geospatial Virtual Heritage: A Gesture-Based 3d Gis To Engage The Public With Ancient Maya Archaeology, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Jim Robertsson, Jennifer Von Schwerin, Giorgio Agugario, Fabio Remondino, Gabrio Girardi
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
This paper presents our research to develop a gesture-based 3D GIS system to engage the public in cultural heritage. It compares two types of interaction—device-based vs. natural interaction— and summarizes the beta-testing results of a 3D GIS tool for archaeology, called QueryArch3D, in which participants used device-based interaction (i.e. mouse and keyboard). It follows with a description of the gesture-based system—that we developed in response to these beta-tests. The system uses QueryArch3D and Microsoft’s Kinect to enable people use body movements (in lieu of keyboard or mouse) to navigate a virtual reality landscape, query 3D objects, and call up photos, …
The Female Body As Spectacle: Ángel De Fuego And La Mujer Del Pueblo: Otilia Rauda By Dana Rotberg, Traci Roberts-Camps
The Female Body As Spectacle: Ángel De Fuego And La Mujer Del Pueblo: Otilia Rauda By Dana Rotberg, Traci Roberts-Camps
College of the Pacific Faculty Articles
No abstract provided.
Shiwilu (Jebero), Pilar Valenzuela, Carlos Gussenhoven
Shiwilu (Jebero), Pilar Valenzuela, Carlos Gussenhoven
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research
Shiwilu (a.k.a. Jebero) is a critically endangered language from Peruvian Amazonia and one of the two members of the Kawapanan linguistic family. Most of its nearly 30 remaining fluent speakers live in and around the village of Jeberos (District of Jeberos, Province of Alto Amazonas, Loreto Region), at approximately 5° S, 75° W. The documentation of Shiwilu is scarce and no survey grammar is available. Until very recently, the only trained linguist who had worked on Shiwilu was John Bendor- Samuel, who carried out fieldwork in 1955–1956 and completed a doctoral thesis in 1958 (see Bendor-Samuel 1981 [1958]). An abridged …
The Paradox Of Amnesia: Tondelli's Un Weekend Postmoderno, Stefano Giannini
The Paradox Of Amnesia: Tondelli's Un Weekend Postmoderno, Stefano Giannini
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship
Tondelli opens his Un weekend postmoderno. Cronache dagli anni Ottanta declaring an intention opposite to the display of amnesia. In the long table of contents of his book, he writes down everything, in an excruciating streaming of details, so that the table of content becomes an exhaustive index of names and ideas. Yet, hidden within the hundreds of analytical snapshots, one of its many characters mentions the importance of dissimulation. Dissimulation, according to Tondelli, hides what is known, to protect the dissimulator and to mask the truth. Also, amnesia is a voluntary practice that can be enacted in order to …
Epigraphs, Intersexuality, And Exile: Reading The Poetry Of Zoe Valdes, Megan Thornton
Epigraphs, Intersexuality, And Exile: Reading The Poetry Of Zoe Valdes, Megan Thornton
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
No abstract provided.
Lo Abyecto Vs. Lo Sagrado: Los Siete Pecados Capitales Y La Naturaleza En La Charca De Manuel Zeno Gandía, Alessia Dalsant
Lo Abyecto Vs. Lo Sagrado: Los Siete Pecados Capitales Y La Naturaleza En La Charca De Manuel Zeno Gandía, Alessia Dalsant
Modern Languages Faculty Publications
La novela La charca, del escritor puertorriqueño Manuel Zeno Gandía, se caracteriza por una indudable partición entre la representación de los seres humanos y de la naturaleza. El autor alterna cuadros de la sórdida realidad puertorriqueña a un fuerte lirismo descriptivo del paisaje isleño. De tal manera, mediante la contraposición de la sociedad enferma al paradisíaco paisaje natural, la representación de la mezquindad de los protagonistas de la novela resulta aún más impactante.
El propósito del presente trabajo es entonces el de analizar esta oposición en términos de la ausencia de Dios en la vida de los protagonistas de …
From Mounds To Maps To Models: Visualizing Ancient Architecture Across Landscapes, Heather Richards-Rissetto
From Mounds To Maps To Models: Visualizing Ancient Architecture Across Landscapes, Heather Richards-Rissetto
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
Since the onset of settlement pattern studies in the 1950s, landscape mapping projects have become an archaeological mainstay. Remote sensing technologies such as lidar, photogrammetry, and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) steadily reveal new archaeological sites. For landscape archaeology, the detection and mapping of small architectural complexes and households offers important data to contextualize larger (often already known) sites and perform regional analyses. However, because the majority of sites remain unexcavated, analysis is limited, and yet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and 3D Visualization are expanding the possible uses for older and newly-acquired data on unexcavated mounds. This paper describes a GIS …