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Tlamachiliztlahtolçaçanilli: A Performance Translation Of The Náhuatl "Wisdom-Discourse Fables" From The Manuscript Of 1558, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The 10 page Náhuatl manuscript included at the end of the so-called Codice Chimalpopoca and commonly referred to since 1903 as Leyenda de los soles, “Legend of the Suns,” or the “Manuscript of 1558,” is a fundamental witness to indigenous Nahua- Mexica memories of their own cosmogony and earliest history as they recalled these things some twenty-five-plus years into the colonial era. As supplement to the later Anales de Cuauhtitlan manuscript (ca. 1570-73) which accompanies it in the Chimalpopoca, the 1558 manuscript provides a privileged view of Nahua-Aztec genesis myths, from a Mexica informant. The narrative frame of this retelling …

Using A Model To Design Activity-Based Educational Experiences To Improve Cultural Competency Among Graduate Students, Yeon Bai, Kathleen D. Bauer

Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Scholarship and Creative Works

To improve the cultural competency of 34 students participating in graduate nutrition counseling classes, the Campinha-Bacote Model of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Health Care Services was used to design, implement, and evaluate counseling classes. Each assignment and activity addressed one or more of the five constructs of the model, i.e., knowledge, skill, desire, encounters, and awareness. A repeated measure ANOVA evaluated pre- and post-test cultural competence scores (Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence among Healthcare Professionals). The overall cultural competence score significantly improved (p < 0.001) from “culturally aware” (68.7 at pre-test) to “culturally competent” (78.7 at post-test). Students significantly improved (p < 0.001) in four constructs of the model including awareness, knowledge, skill, and encounter. Factor analysis indicated that course activities accounted for 83.2% and course assignments accounted for 74.6% of the total variance of cultural competence. An activity-based counseling course encouraging self-evaluation and reflection and addressing Model constructs significantly improved the cultural competence of students. As class activities and assignments aligned well with the Campinha-Bacote Model constructs, the findings of this study can help guide health educators to design effective cultural competence training and education programs.

An Interview With Armand Schwerner, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Armand Schwemer was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1927 and came to the United States in 1936. He has worked as a performance artist and musician with Jackson MacLow, Jerome Rothenberg, Gum Velez and others, and has published over fifteen books of poetry. His The Tablets, an ongoing work begun in the 1960s, remains one of the most protean and provocative, though underacknowledged, explorations of open composition to have emer­ged since mid-century. The following interview, conducted by Willard Gingerich, is excerpted from a longer series of exchanges which took place between April 4 and June 29, 1993.

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Myth Of The Suns And The Toltec-Chichimec Origins Of The Mexica People: The Entire Leyenda De Los Soles, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This marvelous collection of sacred texts and images from pre-Columbian Central American culture is well presented and carefully introduced, providing a wealth of material on goddess images in village cultures and on the urban tradition with its creation and rulership myths. Authors Roberta Markman (comparative literature, California State, Long Beach) and Peter Markman (English, Fullerton) concentrate on the unfolding of these traditions, on their social and historical backgrounds, and on profundity as revealed in literary and visual texts. Essential for academic and museum libraries, recommended for seminary and public libraries.

Tlaloc, His Song, From The Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This marvelous collection of sacred texts and images from pre-Columbian Central American culture is well presented and carefully introduced, providing a wealth of material on goddess images in village cultures and on the urban tradition with its creation and rulership myths. Authors Roberta Markman (comparative literature, California State, Long Beach) and Peter Markman (English, Fullerton) concentrate on the unfolding of these traditions, on their social and historical backgrounds, and on profundity as revealed in literary and visual texts. Essential for academic and museum libraries, recommended for seminary and public libraries.

Cihuacoatl, Her Song, From The Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This marvelous collection of sacred texts and images from pre-Columbian Central American culture is well presented and carefully introduced, providing a wealth of material on goddess images in village cultures and on the urban tradition with its creation and rulership myths. Authors Roberta Markman (comparative literature, California State, Long Beach) and Peter Markman (English, Fullerton) concentrate on the unfolding of these traditions, on their social and historical backgrounds, and on profundity as revealed in literary and visual texts. Essential for academic and museum libraries, recommended for seminary and public libraries.

Quetzalcoatl's Hero Journey, From The Anales De Cuauhtitlan, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This marvelous collection of sacred texts and images from pre-Columbian Central American culture is well presented and carefully introduced, providing a wealth of material on goddess images in village cultures and on the urban tradition with its creation and rulership myths. Authors Roberta Markman (comparative literature, California State, Long Beach) and Peter Markman (English, Fullerton) concentrate on the unfolding of these traditions, on their social and historical backgrounds, and on profundity as revealed in literary and visual texts. Essential for academic and museum libraries, recommended for seminary and public libraries.

Teteo Innan, Her Song, From The Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This marvelous collection of sacred texts and images from pre-Columbian Central American culture is well presented and carefully introduced, providing a wealth of material on goddess images in village cultures and on the urban tradition with its creation and rulership myths. Authors Roberta Markman (comparative literature, California State, Long Beach) and Peter Markman (English, Fullerton) concentrate on the unfolding of these traditions, on their social and historical backgrounds, and on profundity as revealed in literary and visual texts. Essential for academic and museum libraries, recommended for seminary and public libraries.

Chipahuacanemiliztli: The Purified Life, In The Discourses Of Book Vi, Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Entrevista Con Rogelio Sinán, Alina Camacho Gingerich, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Rogelio Sinan, seud6nimo de Bernardo Dominguez Alba y maestro de varias generaciones de escritores panameios, ha cultivado casi todos los g6neros; se ha distinguido como cuentista, poeta, novelista y director teatral. Nace el 25 de abril de 1904 en Taboga, una islita en el Pacifico, a unos 5 kil6metros de la ciudad de Panama. Publica en 1929, en Roma,. su primer libro de poesias, Onda, poemario con el que introduce la vanguardia a las letras panamefias. En 1970 Sinin regresa a su pais, donde explica literatura a los estudiantes del Instituto Nacional. En 1937 lo nombran c6nsul de Panama en …

Quetzalcoatl And The Agon Of Time: A Literary Reading Of The Anales De Cuauhtitlan, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Aspects Of Prose Style In Three Chicano Novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima, And The Road To Tamazunchale, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Arias, Ronald Francis (1941- ), Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Critical Models For The Study Of Native American Literature: The Case Of Nahuatl, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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The Vagina Dentata Motif In Nahuatl And Pueblo Mythic Narratives: A Comparative Study, Willard Gingerich, Pat Carr

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

One of the basic problems of working with Pre-Columbian literary comparisons is the irreparable loss of so much material. Extensive transcribed fragments of Nahuatl pre-conquest literature do exist, but there are, as far as we know, no extant Pueblo manuscripts of corresponding age. There are, however, the narrative myth bowls which illustrated the prevailing Pre-Columbian Pueblo myths. 1 While it is a commonplace that the sixteenth century burning of the ancient Aztec and Mayan books was disastrous, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the breakage of ancient Pueblo pottery by twentieth century treasure hunters (who use bulldozers) is equally disastrous …