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Spanish Speakers And Early 'Latino' Expression, LáZaro Lima
Spanish Speakers And Early 'Latino' Expression, LáZaro Lima
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
Spanish speakers have been present and writing in what is today the United States since the late sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers and colonizers described their experiences in chronicles, prose, poems, and epistolary exchanges. But it was not until the nineteenth century that Spanish speakers from various Latin American countries and Spain began to develop a cultural identity within the United States that was linguistically, racially, and culturally distinct from the Anglo-American majority culture. In the nineteenth century Spanish speakers comprised three principal groups: American citizens of Spanish ancestry, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Americans, and exiled political figures in the …
La Fragilitat Del Paisatge, Sharon G. Feldman
La Fragilitat Del Paisatge, Sharon G. Feldman
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
Dins de la galáxia teatral formada per estrelles de grans i petites dimensions que és l'escena catalana contemporània, Josep M. Benet i Jornet (Barcelona, 1940) és com un cometa; no un d'aquells estels fugaços que apareix en una de les seves obres més reeixides (Fugaç, 1992), sinó com un cometa la trajectória creativa del qual ha estat marcada per un procés constant d'evolució i renovació estètiques, un cometa que ha deixat una lluïssor indeleble, que li ha permès d'omplir el buit entre generacions. Es podria afirmar que Benet i Jornet és el dramaturg en vida més eminent i …
"The Republic Of Women": Notes Towards A Critical Assessment, Mariela Méndez
"The Republic Of Women": Notes Towards A Critical Assessment, Mariela Méndez
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
"The largest changefor us in a qualitative one, to learn how to think of power in feminine terms, without resorting to masculine codes,"1 concludes a participant in "The Republic of Women," a year-long project aimed at raising consciousness around gender issues among women engaged in political and unionist activities in contemporary Argentina. Comments of a similar nature abound in the discussion sessions following the screening of Salt of the Earth, a 1953 American film about the plight of Mexican workers that helped the project's organizers foster a critical dialogue around gender constraints within different Argentinean organizations (Catton Alvarez …