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Motivación Y Experiencia De Los Estudiantes De Español En La Universidad De Kentucky, Rachel Mooney

Lewis Honors College Capstone Collection

En 2017 se registró que en el mundo había 572 millones de hispanohablantes. Actualmente el español es la segunda lengua más hablada dentro de los Estados Unidos y es “the most studied language at all schools and university levels” (El País). A pesar de que el español es una de las lenguas más estudiadas a nivel universitario, se desconoce la percepción y motivación de los estudiantes detrás de esto. En mi experiencia como estudiante, me he dado cuenta de que muchos estudiantes eligen seguir un título universitario de español porque ellos tomaron cursos de español a lo largo de su …

Complex Ecologies And Unruly Bodies In Rosa Montero’S Speculative Fiction, Kiersty Lemon-Rogers

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

Rosa Montero’s work stands out for its compassionate and rich view of humanity. My study is a comparative analysis of Montero’s six Speculative Fiction (SF) novels and four volumes of her collected columns, selected for the proximity of their publication to the SF novels. Montero expresses her ethos directly through her weekly columns in El País and through her novels, which have the potential to attract a different readership than her journalism. Her SF novels, in particular, allow Montero to address contemporary problems in settings that allow readers to suspend their disbelief and connect with her narrative, rather than rejecting …

El Bildungsroman Femenino Mexicano: Nuevas Perspectivas De La Novela De Formación Femenina Fronteriza, Yorki Junior Encalada Egúsquiza

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

The late 20^th and early 21^st centuries have not only favored a steady growth in Chicana literary production but have also revealed an alternative identity of the Mexican American border woman, the meXicana. Rosa Linda Fregoso, in MeXicana Encounters (2003), coins and defines this term as “the interface between Mexicana and Chicana,” and employs it to examine the experiences and representations of Mexicanas and Chicanas without eliminating the differences between them. This study borrows this term but uses it specifically to describe North American women of Mexican origin whose identities and border-crossing experiences make it difficult to solely …

Terminal Youth: The Failure Narrative Of The Dysfunctional Family As The Non-Viability Of Capitalist Economic Liberalism In Contemporary Latin American Film, Sharrah Lane

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This project examines the desire for national and international belonging and citizenship in the figure of the child intersectionally marked by race, class, and gender in contemporary Latin American film, a desire that is ultimately met only with precarity and violence. Chapter One analyzes the figure of the orphaned street child in terms of the desire for connection with a mother figure as a stand-in for the lack of affective community in Pixote: a lei do mais fraco (Brazil, 1981), La vendedora de rosas (Colombia, 1998), and Huelepega: ley de la calle (Venezuela, 1999) in which the protagonists either die, …

Heritage Language Learners And Spanish For Specific Purposes: Bridging The Gap Through Community Service Learning, Gregory L. Thompson, Alan V. Brown

Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Publications

The growth in the number of Spanish heritage language learners in languages for specific purposes classes has been accompanied by an increase in the number and types of community service learning programs in which these students can participate to better prepare them for future employment opportunities. In spite of the increase in the number of Spanish heritage language learners in the languages for specific purposes classroom, few studies have looked at these students in this setting and even fewer have looked at the role that community service learning can play in developing these learners’ domain-specific abilities. Through an analysis of …

[Review Of] Patricia García Y Teresa López-Pellisa (Eds.), Fantastic Short Stories By Women Authors From Spain And Latin America: A Critical Anthology, University Of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2019. Isbn: 978-1786835086, Kiersty Lemon-Rogers

Hispanic Studies Graduate Research

No abstract provided.

There And Back Again: Processes Of Mexican Migration In The 21st Century: An Interview With Deborah A. Boehm, Deborah A. Boehm, Sharrah Lane

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

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From “Home” To Interdisciplinarity: An Interview With Cristina Alcalde, Cristina Alcalde, Juan Fernandez Cantero, Sharrah Lane

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

No abstract provided.

¿Poder Del Discurso O Discurso De Poder? La Representación De Los Migrantes Ecuatorianos En La Utopía De Madrid, Francesco Masala

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

After enduring a decade of economic, climatic, and political problems, between 1999 and 2006, more than 900,000 Ecuadorians left their country (INEC 2007). This process marked the beginning of a major migratory movement which has caused Spain to become a premier destination. The response to such migration has been disparate, yet both Ecuadorian and Spanish artists (as well as the Spanish press) have shown the different perspectives related to a discriminatory ideology. This article focuses on the representation of Ecuadorians in Spain in the 21st century. Despite the large production of novels related to this topic, the one that best …

La Lengua Gallega En La Diáspora Latinoamericana: La Tensión Entre Nacionalismo Y Sentimentalismo Y Sus Efectos En El Habla, Luke A. Bishop

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

En este estudio se explora el mantenimiento del gallego en las comunidades que emigraron a Latinoamérica en los siglos XIX y XX. Primero se contrastan las motivaciones de la comunidad gallega durante los periodos de emigración con el uso activo del gallego en varios centros culturales en las Américas. A continuación se analizan varios textos de la prensa gallega en La Habana y en Buenos Aires, y se comparan con revistas publicadas en los últimos años por centros gallegos en Buenos Aires y en México, DF. De este primer estudio exploratorio se propone que un factor que contribuyó al mantenimiento …

Encuentro Con La Precariedad: La Reaparición Del Gitano En El Cine Documental Español De La Crisis De 2008, María Julia De León Hernández

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

In 2008, Spain’s financial crisis had a great impact on the primary sector on which the nation’s ‘economic miracle’ was founded: housing.Land speculation, the increase in housing construction, and easy loans had become one of the hallmarks of twenty-first-century Spanish identity. The crisis del ladrillo (“brick crisis”) plunged the national economy into chaos and condemned many Spanish citizens to job insecurity, loss of earning power, threat of eviction, and put them at high risk of social marginalization. This dissertation studies the unusual proliferation of documentary films during the years surrounding this economic downturn about the ghettoization of the Spanish Gypsy …

Las Islas En La Literatura Castellana De La Baja Edad Media, Martha Elena Granados Sáenz

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This dissertation explores references to islands in 13^th and 14^th century Iberian literature in a corpus of encyclopedias, travel books and chivalry novels from 1223 through 1396. I explore how island geography became part of the Medieval imago mundi. Many Medieval readers were interested in these faraway lands where, they believed, monstrous races flourished, sea monsters lurked, and Paradise awaited to be rediscovered. The physical and human geography featured in these narratives, gave birth to an imaginary, utopian, exotic, extravagant, and mysterious concept of “islandness” located in idyllic places to be interpreted as cognitive maps of the …

El Enclave Bananero En Las Novelas Centroamericanas De Miguel Angel Asturias, Ramon Amaya Amador Y Carlos Luis Fallas, Johana Pérez Weisenberger

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

The Central American literary community and historiographical critics maintain a constant dialogue in regards to banana literature. Authors such as Asturias, Fallas, and Amador capture the pervasive nature of the banana enclave in their works. My research reveals the ways in which capitalist power controls and redefines spaces in the banner enclave. By taking a closer look these novels reveal the monopolistic power of the United Fruit Company exploits and destroys the natural space, this manuscript becomes a geographical map of the fictionalized banana enclaves, exposing the capitalist oppressing forces, which dominate nature and control the company workers.

Chapter one …

Poéticas Minimalistas De La Ciudad Contemporánea: Iribarren, Mínguez Y Del Val, David Delgado López

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

Throughout the Spanish poetic production of the 20^th century, cities have developed a relevant role as a recurring space at the same time as society urbanized and an exodus took place from agricultural areas to the work centers offered by the cities. Since the second half of the 19^th century the city has been the meeting place for people from different backgrounds where the poet found, from his exclusive point of view, a new universe to develop in his work. However, the evolution of capitalist society sponsored the poet's transition from an artist to a worker in the …

Two Cultures, One Identity: Biculturalism Of Young Mexican Americans, Janela Aida Salazar

Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development

The purpose of this study was to explore the daily life of the younger generation of Mexican Americans through a phenomenology design. Specifically, in regard to how the culture-sharing pattern of biculturalism is reflected in their lives and the way they construct their bicultural identity. The study utilized rich qualitative data to paint a clear and descriptive picture of the internal process of biculturalism within eight Mexican American college students. Ultimately, the data analysis aimed to collect and reflect their voices and the stories. This was done through three distinct data methods that complemented each other: interviews (oral), photo elicitation …

Documentales Sobre El 15-M: Una Modalidad Plural Para Una Revolución Plural, Carmen Moreno-Nuño

Hispanic Studies Faculty Publications

La deficiente cobertura informativa que los medios llevaron a cabo sobre el 15-M en 2011, además de otorgar a los documentales producidos sobre el tema la capacidad de intervenir en el imaginario social, desveló la dificultad de representar esta movilización. En este artículo se analizan los documentales #Indignados. Del 15M al 20N, 15M: “Excelente, Revulsivo, Importante”, #Acampadasol: historia de una ciudad, Falsos horizontes y Libre te quiero para mostrar cómo la variedad de modos documentales —usando el esquema conceptual de Bill Nichols— usados por los cineastas revela que el 15-M es un fenómeno difícilmente encasillable dentro de …

Interview With Karen Dollinger: "Divergences And Convergences Of The Fantastic", Karen Dollinger, Kiersty Lemon-Rogers

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

No abstract provided.

Entrevista A Omar Nieto: "Divergencias Y Convergencias De Lo Fantástico", Omar Nieto, Patricia María Gamboa

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

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Entrevista A David Roas: "Divergencias Y Convergencias De Lo Fantástico", David Roas, Patricia María Gamboa

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

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Las Montañas Desheredadas: Lo Fantástico Y Las Hurdes (Luis Buñuel, 1933) Como Docuficción, Mario Sánchez Gumiel

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

En este ensayo me propongo argumentar dos ideas: la primera, cómo, pese a su conocido e incuestionable carácter subversivo, Las Hurdes (Luis Buñuel, 1933) respeta en verdad las convenciones del género documental y, en consecuencia, cómo el cineasta calandino, a pesar de sus juegos formales con el surrealismo, era un hombre conocedor de (y alineado con) la práctica vigente de tales códigos genéricos. La segunda, que por medio de dicho respeto escrupuloso a las convenciones del documental, Buñuel consigue articular ese momento que Tzvetan Todorov (1938-2017) localiza alrededor de la duda que, entre creencia y descreencia, surge hacia aquello que …

Breve Panorama Del Discurso Teórico Sobre El Género Fantástico, Licet García Simón

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

Este ensayo intenta sintetizar las principales líneas de investigación sobre el género fantástico, y lleva a cabo un cotejo elemental de los puntos principales que derivan de las mismas. Los criterios de selección no responden necesariamente a un orden cronológico; más bien me interesa la dinámica de continuidad conceptual entre las diferentes hipótesis ya sea por afinidad o por divergencia. En ese sentido, el principio estructurador es la continuidad entre las diferentes posturas teóricas, y la relevancia de los aportes.

Editorial: “Divergencias Y Convergencias De Lo Fantástico”, Patricia María Gamboa

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

No abstract provided.

The Indigenous Archive: Religion And Education In Eighteenth-Century Mexico, Mónica Díaz

Hispanic Studies Faculty Publications

This article argues that eighteenth-century native elites played a significant role in the larger intellectual scene of colonial Mexico by participating in the same debates as their creole and European counterparts. I contend that the documentation produced by native elites related to the indigenous schools (colegios), convents, and seminaries during the eighteenth century provides an important context for understanding the ways in which knowledge circulated between natives, creoles, and Europeans. In addition, when this "indigenous archive" is read in tandem with more traditional historiographical native sources, we can better appreciate the indigenous roots of the dominant narrative of …

El Poder Del Centro: Espacios Y Lugares De La Pampa, Aníbal A. Biglieri

Hispanic Studies Faculty Publications

Este artículo trata de la representación de la noción de la pampa en la obra decinco pintores argentinos y en relación con las descripciones de la región devarios novelistas y poetas argentinos de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI. El análisis sebasa en la distinción entre los conceptos de espacios y lugares, y en la forma enque estos últimos se constituyen a partir de un centro de equilibrio (Arnheim,1982). Los cuadros estudiados son Horizonte (1981) y Pampa, (1981), de MiguelOcampo; Un potrero (ca. 1900-03), de Ángel Della Valle; Paisaje, de EnriquePolicastro; La chacra (1950), de Raúl Soldi; y La tropilla …

Los Códices: An Exhibit Of Illustrated Books From Indigenous Mesoamerica, Jacob S. Neely

Hispanic Studies Student Research

This is an exhibit of facsimile codices housed in the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.

The exhibit is on display in the Great Hall on the second floor of the Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky from September 17, 2018 to November 9, 2018.

The exhibit is also available online.

La Ciudad De Las Letradas: Reescribiendo Santo Domingo En La Narrativa Femenina Urbana Dominicana Del Nuevo Milenio, Lucía M. Montás

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

In the last few decades, Dominican female writers have contributed significantly to the literary representation of the city of Santo Domingo and urban life. This dissertation studies how these female writers produce a cultural paradigm for criticizing the urban crisis in the Dominican Republic that at times is at odds with much narrative written by men and with key concepts in Urban Theory that are taken for granted. The authors I study, Ángela Hernández, Emilia Pereyra, Emelda Ramos, Aurora Arias and Rita Indiana Hernández, understand the city and redefine the urban model by expressing their dissatisfaction in the civilizing and …

La Representación De Los Ecuatorianos En España: El Discurso Como Expresión De Poder, Racismo E Ideologías, Francesco Masala

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This dissertation focuses on the representation of Ecuadorians in Spain between 2000 and 2015 in literature, film and the press. After enduring a decade of economic, climatic, and political problems, more than 175,000 Ecuadorians emigrated to Spain in 2001 alone (Herrera 2005). This process marked the beginning of a major migratory movement which has caused Spain to become a premier destination. The response to such migration has been disparate, yet both Ecuadorian and Spanish artists as well as the Spanish press have shown the different perspectives related to a discriminatory ideology. This dissertation focuses on three cultural products and three …

Itexts: Techxtual Poetics, Authorship And Re-Wreaders In 21St-Century Spanish Literature, Joshua M. Hoekstra

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

In 2007, Nuria Azancot published an article in the magazine El Cultural in which she identified a burgeoning group of Spanish writers that she referred to as the “Nocilla Generation.” The catalyst behind the article was a literary reunion that took place weeks before in Seville and brought together authors from all parts of Spain to talk about the status and future of writing. She described them as “transgressors” and “bloggers” who hybridized literary genres and held a revolutionary approach to the literary that was clearly marked by the Internet. Numerous articles and dissertations have since highlighted the impact that …

Antología Imprescindible, Rómulo Bustos Aguirre

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

No abstract provided.

Pos-Simulacro E Hipermodernidad En Como La Sombra Que Se Va, De Antonio Muñoz Molina, Sergio Restrepo

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

Demostraré que Antonio Muñoz Molina, en su novela Como la sombra que se va (2014) supera el paradigma posmoderno de simulacro. La novela entrecruza geográficamente Lisboa tres relatos: una crónica de la escapada de James Earl Ray después de asesinar al reverendo Martin Luther King y las memorias de la creación tanto de su novela El invierno en Lisboa (1987) como de Como la sombra que se va. Muñoz Molina proyecta la crónica de Ray y la memoria de la creación de El invierno en Lisboa no sobre una Lisboa hiperreal, sino sobre un espacio concreto en el que …