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La Voz Spring 2014, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

• Alturas Duo
• Dominican Citizenship
• Magdalena Gomez
• Roberto Tejada

La Voz Spring 2014, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue:

• Elizabeth Mahan Fund for Graduate Studies
• Patrick "Pato" Hebert Art Installation
• Eyzaguirre Lecture: Diana Taylor
• Generation Sex: Teatro Luna

The Impact Of Favela Painting, Fariha Rahman

Senior Inquiry High School Program

While Brazil is growing rapidly, increased attention is being paid to its many lowerincome “marginal” neighborhoods, called favelas, found near and within many major Brazilian cities. Three such favelas have been visually transformed by a Dutch design firm’s Favela Painting project, which consists of enormous murals painted on the walls of favela housing. The project was developed by two designers, Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn or Haas&Hahn, after they first visited a Brazilian favela to film a music video. Their original intent had little to do with any negative conditions of favelas – they simply wanted authorization for a painting …

The Patriarchy’S Role In Gender Inequality In The Caribbean, Erin C. O'Connor

Student Publications

While gender equality in the Caribbean is improving, with women’s growing social, economic, and political participation, literacy rates comparable to those in Europe, and greater female participation in higher education, deeply rooted inequalities are still present and are demonstrated in the types of jobs women are in and the limited number of women in decision-making positions. Sexism, racism, and classism are systemic inequalities being perpetuated in schools, through the types of education offered for individuals and the content in textbooks. Ironically, the patriarchy is coexisting within a system of matrifocal and matrilocal families, with a long tradition of female economic …

Controlling Contagion: The Threat Of The Madman From Outer Space, Megan L. Corbin

Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

El Pasado Lingüístico Colonial Y Las Lenguas De Instrucción En La Educación Filipina, David Sánchez-Jiménez

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

"When A Translator Joins The Revolution: A Paratextual Analysis Of Manuel García De Sena’S La Independencia", Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

During the complex period of Latin American independence, new states began to emerge and new ideas were implemented. Some of these ideas were made available in part due to the efforts of translators in the United States. Among them was Manuel García de Sena, a Venezuelan translator who published translations of North American texts. His translations enjoyed a prompt distribution. One of them became a vehicle that facilitated legal transplants from the United States to the new republics. While much has been lost to history regarding the details of the printing of this translation, its paratextual apparatus provides insights that …

Hacia Un Mapa Ex-Céntrico De Lo Afro-Hispano: Notas Sobre Un Meta-Archipiélago Desbordado, Brian J. Gunderson

Dissertations

This project proposes a study of works from 20^th and 21^st Century Latin American Literature and its representation of “lo afro” (blackness). While most studies have focused on the Caribbean, I am interested in working with regions of Latin America that have a history of African heritage that has either been “whitewashed” or erased since the 19^th Century creation of independent nations. The major areas studied are based loosely on Quince Duncan’s notion of the Caribe Continental (the continental Caribbean): Central America (Costa Rica and Honduras), Mexico, the Pacific Coast (Ecuador and Peru), and the Southern Cone …

Migration Policy And Development In Chile, Cristián Doña-Reveco, Brendan Mullan

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Current and prospective migration law and policy in Chile does not adequately incorporate the causes, content, and consequences of international migration to and from Chile. We describe and examine migration in‐flows, out‐flows, migration‐related policies, and how those policies drive, and are driven by, notions of development in Chile. We explore contradictions in Chilean nascent migration policy currently under legislative review. We argue that it is imperative that migration, migration policy, and their relationship to development be discussed inclusively and transparently and be explicitly incorporated into the Chilean government's nascent migration and development legal policies and frameworks.

Leaders, Ideas, National Interests, And Economic Strategies: Explaining The Regional Integration Decisions Of Mexico And Brazil, Roberto Genoves

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Regional integration agreements (RIAs) facilitate economic integration by allowing member countries access to each other's markets and by removing or reducing trade and investment barriers. Their increasing influence on international patterns of trade and investment flows has stimulated substantial academic work. Yet, scholars note that we lack an adequate comprehension of the factors that cause governments to seek RIAs, and why they prefer a particular type of integration arrangement. These are important questions because they speak to the forces that shape cooperation among states, a vital issue in international relations with implications for global governance.

Using an eclectic analytical approach, …

El Oficio De La Escritura Y La Estetica En La Obra De Roberto Bolano, Ainoa Inigo

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation aims at attaining a general understanding of the aesthetics and philosophy on the practice of writing of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003), the Chilean poet and writer, through interpretive devices developed by him and by extrinsic means. Bolaño claimed that his works stemmed from a pre-extant poetic universe, so that each work is interrelated thematically with the rest of the oeuvre and individually representative of the totality.

Throughout the works analyzed, our two primary questions--the aesthetical and ethical--intercept while we examine his understanding of the role of the writer and literature itself. Estrella distante (1996), Los detectives salvajes (1998) and …

Roundup Ready Nation: The Political Ecology Of Genetically Modified Soy In Argentina, Amalia Leguizamon

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation is a case study of agrarian transformation in an agro-export society, Argentina. I study the process of adoption of the technological package of genetically modified (GM) soy in the Argentine countryside, its socio-ecological consequences, and Argentines' responses to it. In particular, this research addresses Argentina's unique situation of being a developing country that has positively embraced the biotechnology of GM seeds as a key accumulation strategy without the emergence of major contestation against GM soy monocropping. In order to answer the puzzle of quiescence, I look at how power relations structure access to social and environmental goods and …

"A New Way Of Doing Politics": The Movement Against Cafta In Costa Rica, Jeremy Rayner

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In October of 2007, Costa Ricans voted in a referendum to ratify a Free Trade Agreement with the United States (DR-CAFTA, or CAFTA). The first referendum in their nation's history--and the first referendum ever held on a Free Trade Agreement--marked the culmination of a cycle of contention over liberalization that transformed practices and expectations of politics in a country often considered an exemplar of representative democracy. In this dissertation I provide an account of the opposition to CAFTA (the NO), based on two years of ethnographic research with the Patriotic Committees (Comites Patrioticos), the decentralized, grassroots network at the heart …

Fearless: Emily Hauck, Emily G. Hauck

SURGE

Beginning with an interest in Spanish language that led her to Argentina and Spain, Emily decided to use the language skills she acquired during her gap year after high school and time spent studying abroad to get herself connected to the Latino community in Adams County. Volunteering with different organizations and programs like the LIU #12 Migrant Education Programs, Casa de la Cultura, and El Centro, Emily started seeing the big picture—making connections between the immigration stories, people she was meeting, and the greater national dialogue on immigration issues. [excerpt]

I'Ve Seen The Promised Land: A Letter To Amelia Boynton Robinson, Mauricio E. Novoa

SURGE

You asked if I had any thoughts or comments at the end of our visit, and I stood and said nothing. I opened my mouth, but instead of giving you words my throat was sealed by a dam of speechlessness while my eyes wept out all the emotions and heartache that I wanted to share with you. The others in my group were able to express their admiration, so I wanted to do the same. [excerpt]

Teaching Mexico's Remarkable Writer, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

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No abstract provided.

Chronology Of Works By And About Elena Poniatowska

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No abstract provided.

Trenzando Interrogaciones Pedagógicas, Magdalena Maiz-Peña

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No abstract provided.

Teaching Gaby Brimmer: A Disability Studies Approach, Beth Jörgensen

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Gaby Brimmer (1979), the collaborative “autobiography” of the Mexican disability rights activist, narrates her childhood and young adulthood through the voices of Brimmer herself; her mother, Sari Dlugacz Brimmer; her caregiver, Florencia Morales Sánchez; and Elena Poniatowska. This article presents ideas and resources for teaching Gaby Brimmer from a disability studies perspective, in courses on contemporary Spanish-American literature, women writers, genre theory, human rights and activism, or in a disability studies course.

Tracking Jesusa: Geographic Information Systems And Character Development In Hasta No Verte, Jesús Mío, Pamela H. Long, Kevin W. Long

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This study examines the uses of mapping software and web tools to produce multimedia annotations of a literary work—in this case Hasta no verte, Jesús mío by Elena Poniatowska—to the end of strengthening student engagement with the text, and cultural and literary contexts. The authors, a professor and a student at Auburn University-Montgomery, photographed scenes of specific sites and landmarks mentioned in the novel, mapped them on Google Maps, then linked the sites with historic photos of the periods indicated in the novel, in preparation for creating a unique website.

Constructing The Democratic Reader: The Functions Of Textual Hybridity In La Noche De Tlatelolco, Manuel Chinchilla

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A study of Elena Poniatowska’s La noche de Tlatelolco as a hybrid text that combines the genres of testimonio and chronicle to reconcile the relationship between history and literature. This article centers on how readership of La noche de Tlatelolco permits a democratic practice that confronts official discourse, particularly the PRI party’s narratives of legitimization, while also fostering an engagement with the original political impulse behind the student movement of 1968.

Exploring Disaster Experiences Through Elena Poniatowska's Nada, Nadie: Las Voces Del Temblor, Dawn Slack

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A study of Elena Poniatowska’s Nada, nadie: Las voces del temblor, based on the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, through recent critical theories on trauma and human experience in catastrophic events. This article explores the narrative context of personal and collective response to disasters as well as pedagogical approaches to disaster narration.

Las Crónicas Femeninas De Elena Poniatowska En La Construcción De Un Archivo Digital, María Claudia André

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Pedagogical description of an innovative project where college-level students build a website about the work of European and Mexican artists arriving to Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century. The project is based on three texts of Elena Poniatowska: Tinísima, Leonora and Las siete cabritas. The main objective of the project was to have students conduct research using the new proposals and pedagogical practices used in the field of Digital Humanities.

Descripción pedagógica del transcurso de un proyecto innovativo donde los estudiantes de nivel universitario construyen una página web sobre la obra de artistas mexicanas y europeas llegadas …

Ser Chaparrita: Los Textos Testimoniales Como Desafío Al Mundo Académico Y Las Lecciones De Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Partnoy

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This essay combines a tribute to Alaíde Foppa with the examination of Elena Poniatowska’s contributions to a discourse of solidarity around the disappeared Guatemalen poet and other subjects and producers of testimonial texts.

En el marco de una investigación sobre los últimos días de Alaíde Foppa realizada en México con la colaboración de Poniatowska, se examina el aporte de esta última a la construcción de un discurso de la solidaridad como condición central del texto testimonial.

Intersticios, Cruzamientos E Intersecciones: Desafíos Pedagógicos En La Noche De Tlatelolco De Elena Poniatowska, Luis H. Peña

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This article reviews the pedagogical practices and experiences of undergraduate students upon confronting the emblematic text of the 1960s, La noche de Tlatelolco (1971; Massacre in Mexico, 1975), by Elena Poniatowska. Students are guided to consider ethics, aesthetics and politics as conceptual vectors to help them problematize this historic event materialized into a literary text, through its borders, linguistic and ideological representational nature, to evaluate the intricacies of contextual knowledge.

Un estudio sobre las experiencias pedagógicas de estudiantes de nivel subgraduado al enfrentarse al texto emblemático de la década del 1960, La noche de Tlatelolco (1971) de Elena Poniatowska. El …

Elena Y El Gaviero, Rey Andújar

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A reading of the book Cartas de Álvaro Mutis a Elena Poniatowska in study of the Colombian writer's presence in Mexico, his incarceration and Elena Poniatowska's visits with him at the jail.

Una lectura de las Cartas de Álvaro Mutis a Elena Poniatowska, efectuando análisis de la presencia del escritor colombiano en México, su encarcelamiento y las visitas de Elena Poniatowska con él en la cárcel.

Jesusa En Islandia: La Traducción De Hasta No Verte, Jesús Mío, María Rán Guðjónsdóttir

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The Icelandic translation of Hasta no verte, Jesús mío was well received by critics and readers alike. On the occasion of its publication in 2012, Elena Poniatowska visited the country to the great joy of Icelandic literature enthusiasts. In this essay the translator, María Rán Guðjónsdóttir, examines the process of translating the novel, the challenge of transmitting a text and culture of a source language so different from the target language, in consideration of Ortega y Gasset’s concept of the translator’s "misery and splendor."

La traducción al islandés de Hasta no verte, Jesús mío fue bien recibida entre críticos y …

Ausencia-Presencia: Delineando Una Narrativa De Personajes Fugitivos De Elena Poniatowska, Liliana Pedroza

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A study of four texts by Elena Poniatowska assessing innovative uses of characters, enunciating absence and emotion.

Un estudio de cuatro textos de Elena Poniatowska que giran en torno a la ausencia en sus distintos estadios y formas de invocación de personajes.

Elena Poniatowska: Then, Now And Forever, Claire Brewster

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Elena Poniatowska’s extraordinary literary output and her delightful personality justly merit her position as Mexico’s most dearly loved and highly respected author. I consider myself truly fortunate to have had the luxury of intensively studying her writings during the process of my doctoral dissertation. In this essay, I recall my introduction to Poniatowska’s work, her impact on my postgraduate studies, and how I, as a historian, employ her testimonial literature in my classes and the teaching of undergraduate students in the United Kingdom.

Cracking Codes Of Resistance: The Adaptation Of Elena Poniatowska's Story "De Noche Vienes" To Film, Lea Ramsdell

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A comparison of one of Elena Poniatowska's longer stories, "De noche vienes," and its interpretation in film many years later, for subversive and other techniques.