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Grass-Roots Struggle In The "Culture Of Silence": Collective Dialogue And The Brazilian Landless Movement, Genny Petschulat

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Emily And Annie: Doris Lessing's And Jamaica Kincaid's Portraits Of The Mothers They Remember And The Mothers That Might Have Been, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

In 2008 at the age of eighty-nine, Nobel laureate Doris Lessing returned to the mother who has haunted her life and her literature in order to rewrite a fictional account of the life that might have been and a biographical account of the life that she actually lived in Alfred & Emily. Her efforts to finally exorcise the powerful and hated figure that has hounded her for most of her eighty-nine years call to mind similar efforts throughout the canon of fifty-nine-year-old celebrated Antiguan-American novelist Jamaica Kincaid to free herself. Both writers take advantage of and seek to find …

2010 Courses Fall Las, Jordana Dym

LALS Curriculum Materials

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2010 Courses Fall Las, Jordana Dym

LALS Curriculum Materials

No abstract provided.

Boletín V.16:No.1 (2010), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute

Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)

No abstract provided.

Short Piece On Moacyr Scliar, Stephen A. Sadow

Stephen Sadow

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Sadow List Of Publications And Course Work 2002/2003, Stephen A. Sadow

Stephen Sadow

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El Vampiro En El Espejo: Elementos Góticos En Yo El Supremo, Carmen A. Serrano

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

Con la fi ccionalización de la vida del dictador paraguayo José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766-1840) en Yo el Supremo (1973), Augusto Roa Bastos establece un espacio en el que fuentes históricas, literarias y mitológicas se mezclan y se confunden creando un personaje de carácter sobrenatural que mantiene una sutil pero fi rme relación, aún no explorada, con la novela gótica y, en concreto, con la imagen del vampiro.

Gracias a esta intertexualidad que se establece al combinar elementos propios de la mitología y del folklore guaraníes con personajes históricos tales como el Marqués de Sade, Alfonso X el Sabio …

Juntos, Pero No Revueltos: Actitudes Entre Monolingües Y Bilingües En El Aula, Miriam Cruz

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Por ser el sur de Texas, región de nuestra universidad de estudio, una comunidad principalmente bilingüe, y dada su ubicación geográfica fronteriza con México, existe en las aulas un número elevado de estudiantes bilingües. Por lo tanto, este trabajo de investigación se interesa en el estudio comparativo de las actitudes de los estudiantes monolingües frente a los bilingües en un curso de español para principiantes no hispanohablantes. En mi estudio distinguiré éste factor entre estudiantes bilingües, es decir, aquellos capaces de hablar o entender el español, en comparación con estudiantes monolingües que sólo hablan y entienden el inglés. Considero también …

Rethinking Language Contact, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

You can find here an overview of my thesis research project, related to the topic of Multilingual Language Education.

Roland Brival Et Le Métissage:Un Nouvel Humanisme, Yolande Aline Helm

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

the article focalizes on roland Brival’s conception of “métissage” in his fiction texts:for him, it is synonymous to a new “humanism”. i revisit the theories which have permeate French caribbean literature (negritude, creolity, creolization). they are not synonymous of “métissage”; in fact, Brival’s vision is apart from the “creolity” movement.

Celebrando Los Derechos De Los Niños: La Importancia Histórica, Educativa Y Cultural Del Día Del Niño, Con Respeto A Nuestra Comunidad Local Y Mundial, Krista Kathryn Collins

World Languages and Cultures

Día del Niño recognizes children worldwide on different days and in unique ways, yet its message remains universal: a dedication to the children of our world and the opportunity to raise awareness of the social and economic issues they face daily. Every child of our future deserves respect, recognition and the rights set forth by the United Nations, which can be made possible through collective support and cultural awareness. Pacheco Elementary, a dual-immersion program dedicated to bilingualism in Spanish and English, promotes the annual Día del Niño celebration to honor every student and to bring the Central Coast together in …

Día Del Niño: Aumentar La Conciencia Social Celebrando A Los Niños En Nuestras Comunidades Así Como Los Niños En Todo El Mundo, Jordan Brittany Roske

World Languages and Cultures

This Project attempts to explicate the importance and procedures of the day of the child celebration for Latin American culture; while planning the event for Pacheco Elementary School it is dually important to emphasize and maintain cultural respect for both the English and the Spanish speaking families while encouraging positive inter- and intra-personal communication. As this is a hands-on project with the intended goal of planning, organizing and celebrating a successful day of the child festival, the research will focus on the history and creation of the day of the child in relation to the United Nations, UNICEF, the Convention …

Diaspora Caribefia: Nostalgia Y Lenguaje En Las Novelas De Esmeralda Santiago, Julia Alvarez Y Cristina Garcia, Ruben J. Nazario

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

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With His Guitar In His Hand: Representations Of U.S. - Mexico Border Masculinity In Robert Rodriguez's “El Mariachi”, Marlene Galvan

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This thesis closely examines Robert Rodriguez’s film El Mariachi and its portrayal of border masculinity - the masculine identity which exists on the physical space between the U.S. and Mexico, but also the masculinity created by the melding of cultures. The film ignores this complexity and instead dichotomizes maleness along the traditionally Western lines of hard versus soft masculinity. Further, the film glorifies violence, the exploitation of female bodies, shows women as only useful agents of man, punishes transgressive women, and depicts men as only possessing or aspiring to possess individualistic, economic, phallocentric, and patriarchal power which reinforces a variation …

2010 Empowered21 Global Congress On The Holy Spirit Program, Empowered21 Committee

Empowered 21 Archive

The program for the first Empowered21 conference on the Holy Spirit held on the campus of Oral Roberts University April 8-10, 2010. Led by Dr. Billy Wilson, the executive director and char for E21, the conference included five general, learning conversations from next-gen leaders from around the world. Speakers included

• Jack Hayford
• Mark Rutland
• Tommy Barnett
• Claudio Freidzon
• A.E. Adeboye
• Ulf Ekman
• Niko Njotorahardjo
• Margaret Court
• Billy Joe Daughtery

A scholars track was hosted by Dr. Vinson Synan with 30 papers presented by Spirit-empowered scholars on a variety of topics. These were compiled into the book Spirit-empowered Christianity in the …

Focusing On Black Queer Writing: Clags At The Fire & Ink Cotillion Iii In Austin Texas, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

On October 8-11th, 2009, an historic event occurred in Austin, Texas. The Fire & Ink III: Cotillion brought together LGBT writers and artists of African descent from around the nation and beyond. In 2002, its founding year, Thomas Glave, editor of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Duke University Press) and author of The Torturer's Wife (fiction), provided the keynote, later published in both his essay collection, Words to our Now as well as the Summer 2003 issue of Callaloo (literary journal) under the name: "Fire and Ink: Toward a Quest for Language, History …

Boletín V.15:No.2 (2010), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute

Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)

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The Isleño Décima: Media And Memory In Spanish-Speaking South Louisiana, Jeanne Gillespie

JEANNE GILLESPIE

From the early fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial process involved the settling of vast tracks of land. From their first colonial experiment in the Canary Islands in 1402, the Spanish administration learned that it was sometimes more effective to import assimilated settlers from already established colonial possessions than to attempt massive conversion and cultural assimilation. To shore up the vast spaces of the northern Gulf Coast, particularly "West Florida" and eastern Texas, the Spanish governors sent for colonists including groups of Canary Islanders who settled outposts along the Red River, as well as …

"I Going Away. I Going Home.": Austin Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place", Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Austin Clarke’s “Leaving This Island Place” is one of scores of Caribbean autobiographical works that focus on a bright, young, lower-class islander leaving his/her small island place and setting out on “Eldorado voyages.” The narrative of that journey away from home to Europe or Canada or the United States and the later efforts to return may be said to be the Caribbean story, as suggested in the subtitle of Wilfred Cartey’s study of Caribbean literature, Whispers from the Caribbean: I Going Away, I Going Home, which argues that while in Caribbean literature there is much movement away, there is …

Parent Involvement And Views Of School Success: The Role Of Parents’ Latino And White American Cultural Orientations, Carey S. Ryan, Juan F. Casas, Lisa Kelly-Vance, Bridget O. Ryalls, Collette Nero

Psychology Faculty Publications

We examined ethnicity and cultural orientation as predictors of parents' views of and involvement in children's education, using data gathered from the Latino (n = 74) and non-Latino (17 White and 13 ethnic minority) parents of children in an elementary school's dual-language program. Parents completed a questionnaire that assessed Latino and White American cultural orientations, importance of children's academic and social success, and self- and significant other involvement in children's education. Results indicated that Latino (and other ethnic minority) parents valued academic and social success equally and more strongly than did Whites and that Whites valued social success more …

La Opresión Del Género Sexual Y La Expresión Sexual En Bodas De Sangre, Yerma, Y La Casa De Bernarda Alba Por Federico García Lorca, Janell Swick

World Languages and Cultures

This paper includes a detailed analysis of the theater of Federico García Lorca. Special attention is paid to the gender implications and sexual oppression noted in his trilogy plays Bodas de sangre, Yerma, and La casa de Bernarda Alba.

El Golpe De Estado En Chile De 1973 Y Como Una Persona Lo Experimentó, James W. Larkin

World Languages and Cultures

El golpe de estado en Chile de 1973 y como una persona lo experimentó

James W. Larkin California Polytechnic State University

The focus of this senior project is to illustrate the societal and political atmosphere surrounding the 1973 military overthrow of the Chilean government and the fascist regime that followed through the personal perspective. The project consists of two parts: The first is a brief synopsis of the events leading to, surrounding and following the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government. The research provides an adequate understanding of the historic events and context in which they occurred. The second section provides …

Making The Internet Friendlier For Mfl Educators, Pilar Munday

Languages Faculty Publications

Tools and tips for the foreign language teacher (particularly Spanish teachers).

Irrational And Visionary Imagery In Cante Jondo And The Neo-Popular Poetry Of Federico Garcia Lorca And Rafael Alberti, David A. Briggs

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

IRRATIONAL AND VISIONARY IMAGERY IN CANTE JONDO AND THE NEO-POPULAR POETRY OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA AND RAFAEL ALBERTI BY DAVID A. BRIGGS B.A., Romance Languages and Literature, Boston University, 1964 M.A., Spanish, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2002 Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese, The University of New Mexico, 2009 ABSTRACT Spanish poet Rafael Alberti of the Generation of 27 claimed that 'Surrealism had been practiced in Spain since time immemorial as part of the tradition of popular song and folk poetry' (Rafael Alberti qtd. in Harris 34). What is it that permits applying an early twentieth-century term, 'Surrealism' to the …

Un Pie Aquí Y Otro Allá: Translation, Globalization, And Hybridization In The New World (B)Order, Jorge Jimenez-Bellver

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This thesis explores the role of translation in the production and manipulation of identities in the contemporary Americas as exemplified in the work of Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Underscoring the instrumentality of borders vis-à-vis dominant constructions of identity and in connection with questions of language, race, and citizenship, I argue that translation not only functions as an agent of hegemonic superiority and oppression, but also as a locus of plurivocity and hybridization. Drawing from the concepts “continuous variation” (Deleuze and Guattari [1987] 2004), “coloniality of power” (Mignolo 2000), and “hybridization” (García-Canclini 1995), I discuss the connection of translation with three main topics: …

Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca And Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Bolivia in the 1980s was wracked by monetary inflation approaching levels of the German Weimar Republic. Immediately following this time of great financial crisis in Bolivia, the U.N. founded a project through the U.N.D.P. to encourage peasant farmers in Bolivia to switch from growing coca (the plant used manufacture cocaine) to growing other cash crops for market. This crop substitution and development program, called the Agroyungas Project, lasted from 1985 to 1991 and is the focus of this study. While many U.N. pundits and journalists considered the program’s initial small successes promising, it has been considered since its conclusion to …

Circulation And Consumption: Transnational Mass Tourism In Cancun, Mexico, Christine Vassallo-Oby

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

Cancun’s packaged image of paradise is a dynamic and constantly flowing contestation of identity and livelihood for those involved in the service sector. Indigeneity is used as spectacle, prop, and entertainment in the tourism industry and is especially popular in mass tourism zones like Cancun. Circulation of not only bodies, but theory surrounding authenticity and indigeneity, are all represented in the hyper-commodification that defines mass tourism. Cancun uses transnational connections for marketing of space, goods, and people that are in a constant state of circulation. Looking at the rise of the tourism industry in Cancun processually leads us to explore …

Discursos Ocultos Y Embates Con Disfraz La Resistencia Simbólica Del Yaqui Alrededor De La Rebelión De 1740, Benjamin A. Rascón

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The Land Does Not Belong To Us We Belong To The Land!, Lourdes Torres

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