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Every Good Heart Is A Telescope: Early Poems., Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Katherine Hedeen

Katherine Hedeen

Implications Of Implementing A Hybrid Learning Approach At The University Of Guyana, Kerwin A. Livingstone

Kerwin A. Livingstone

Online learning and teaching is pervading higher education (HE) and many Universities are faced with the challenge of incorporating technology in education to meet the needs of students. The objective of this paper is to examine the implications of introducing a hybrid learning approach at the University of Guyana. A rationale has been established as to why this need is so germane. Literature has been reviewed and discussed, concerning face to face (F2F), online and blended instruction and the pertinence of these in current HE pedagogies. Special emphasis is paid to the transformative potential of blended learning to confront HE …

Producción De La Concordancia En Español Por Hablantes De Náhuatl, Alma Ramirez-Trujillo

Alma P Ramirez-Trujillo

Esta tesis investiga la adquisición de la concordancia de género y número en el sintagma determinante, y de sujeto, verbo y objeto en el sintagma verbal por hablantes de náhuatl que hablan español como L2 (n=19) y por bilingües simultáneos (náhuatl-español) (n=6). Los resultados son contrastados con un grupo de control (n=5). El español y el náhuatl son muy diferentes. El español dista mínimamente de otras lenguas romances, mientras que el náhuatl es una lengua polisintética sin género, el número está restringido a sustantivos animados, tiene que expresar concordancia de objeto y no tiene verbos infinitivos. La falta de concordancia …

Visualizing A State Of Debt: Sergio Chejfec’S Art Of Landscapes And Loans, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This paper examines two novels by the Argentine author Sergio Chejfec: Boca de lobo (2000) and La experiencia dramática (2012). By examining their relationship to Jorge Luis Borges' short story "El Zahir," I examine the ways in which the structures and obligations of loans and debt (or contemporary forms of abstract money more generally) are materialized into understandable and interpretable aesthetic forms in the novel. I suggest that Chejfec's interest in literary form and economic form in these novels present key complications to the concept of posthegemony as it is elaborated by John Beasley-Murray.

Shantytown Vistas And Immigrant Voices: Bernardo Verbitsky, Guaraní Language And The Art Of Overcoming Peronism, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This was an invited presentation at a conference of Indiana professors who specialize in research on Latin America. The conference was hosted by the Minority Languages and Literature program at Indiana University, Bloomington. I gave a version of what was then a forthcoming paper on Bernardo Verbitsky's novel Villa Miseria también es América. The entire essay can be read at the following link: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/revista_de_estudios_hispanicos/v047/47.2.buttes.html

Mass Media, “Realismo Villero” And “El Sueño Argentino”: The Return To Literature In Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’S La Virgen Cabeza (2009), Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This paper begins by developing the concept of "de-fictionalization," which the Argentine author Roberto Arlt develops in his newspaper columns about the Paraná Delta region of Argentina. Bringing this concept to bear on Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's recent novel La virgen cabeza, which narrates the story of contemporary Delta residents living in a villa miseria or shantytown near San Isidro, I suggest that the notion of de-fictionalization is crucial to the primary critical reception of the novel, which has highlighted an interest in biopolitics. These biopolitical approaches tend to foreground what they understand as the novel's postmodernist techniques such as pastiche, …

Response To "Money Is In The Eye Of The Beholder", Stephen M. Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

Beginning with the editor's discussion of an episode of Project Runway and its relationship to contemporary theories of affect in art, my response to Todd Cronan's piece questions his application of affect theory in the particular instance of the episode he discusses and then draws it together with a discussion of the novel Baroni: A Journey, by Argentine author Sergio Chejfec, to explore critiques of the economic logic of neoliberalism through aesthetic objects.

El Pelado Y ‘La Desnudez De México:’ Reading Urban Poverty With Salvador Novo And Agustín Yáñez, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

The paper examines the role that urban poor played in discourses of national identity in the post-revolutionary period in Mexico (1920-1950). As Mexico emphasized its indigenous, rural past while at the same time becoming increasingly urban during its process of modernization, the underpinnings of a “proper” or “autochthonous” national identity were also necessarily questioned. These tensions are perhaps best exemplified in what Guillermo Sheridan has called the “dilemma” of “formative” and “speculative” models of the “national soul” (57). While the former saw itself as prescriptive, this “speculative” model of national identity, in which “la nacionalidad se convierte … en una …

De Sombras Y Umbrales: Ansiedad Geográfica En Boca De Lobo, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This work examines the relationship between geography, the body, memory and aesthetics in the representation of urban poverty and the global economic processes of neoliberalism in the novel Boca de lobo (2000) by Argentine author Sergio Chejfec.

Shantytown Vistas And Immigrant Voices: Bernardo Verbitsky, Kenneth Kemble And The Art Of Overcoming Peronism, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

Este ensayo propone leer Villa Miseria también es América (1957) de Bernardo Verbitsky como una propuesta para superar el binario político-afectivo de la revolución anti-peronista de la década del 1950. En primer lugar, se argumenta que el personaje José Rodríguez, estudiante de izquierda torturado por el régimen peronista, puede entenderse como un retrato del artista comprometido. Luego, se establecen conexiones entre los intereses estéticos de este personaje y los del movimiento de vanguardia informalista, haciendo hincapié en la serie de collages Paisajes suburbanos (1958–61) de Kenneth Kemble. Al comparar los materiales que componen los paisajes villeros que produce Kemble y …

Are You Really Going To Eat That? Water, Power, And Bugs A La Tlaxcalteca, Jeanne Gillespie

JEANNE GILLESPIE

Narratives in Mesoamerica consistently used mytho-poetic data to frame their commentaries. For that reason, scholars must endeavor not only to understand the “facts” that Davies is seeking, but to also navigate the other organizing principles that frame historic narratives. It is not that these “details of fantasy” do not have significant historical value; it is that to understand these apparently fanciful components of the narrative, scholars must also understand the strategies and the rhetorical devices that the Amerindian narrators used to generate them. This study will examine an aspect of the rich and complex mytho-poetic data documenting the Battle of …

Las Dos Lunas De Miel "Goticas" De Fortunata Y Jacinta, Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

En su libro Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal [Lunas de miel victorianas: viajes a lo conyugal], Helena Michie examina el concepto ideal de la luna de miel en el siglo XIX como una etapa de transición entre el pasado y el futuro, por medio de la cual los novios experimentan una reorientación (personal y espacial) y adquieren nuevas formas de conocimiento (conceptual y carnal) que servirán como la piedra angular de su matrimonio. Según Michie, la novela inglesa de la época victoriana refleja la dificultad de realizar este concepto ideal, representando pocas lunas de miel exitosas y muchas fracasadas. …

La Africana Y Galdós: De La Nación A Fortunata Y Jacinta, Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

The article links Galdós's review of Meyerbeer's opera La Africana, published in La Nación in 1865, with his reference to that opera in the "Viaje de novios" [Honeymoon] chapter of Fortunata y Jacinta. The romantic triangle of Sélica, Vasco de Gama, and Inés is compared to that of Fortunata as ambiguous examples of the Orientalized "Other."

Underapplication Of Vowel Reduction To Schwa In Majorcan Catalan. Some Evidence For The Left Syllable Of The Stem As A Prominent Position And For Subparadigms, Clàudia Pons-Moll

Clàudia Pons-Moll

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Literatura Judía Latinoamericana Contemporánea: Una Antología = Literatura Judaica Latino-Americana Contemporânea: Uma Antologia = Contemporary Jewish Latin American Literature: An Anthology, Stephen Sadow

Stephen Sadow

LITERATURA JUDÍA LATINOAMERICANA CONTEMPORÁNEA: UNA ANTOLOGÍA es un compendio de poesía y prosa escritas por judíos latinoamericanos. Viendo de comunidades judías dispersas por la inmensidad de las Américas al sur de los Estados Unidos, estos escritores proveen una riqueza de descripciones y modos de entenderá esta frecuentemente ignorada población de unas 450.000 almas. También hay obras de escritores, quienes por razones políticas, económicas o sionistas viven fuera de los países natales. Sin embargo, a pesar de las distancias geográficas entre estos escritores y las distintas culturas que los rodean, todos crean poemas y narrativas que son profundamente judías-- la liturgia, …

Breastfeeding Practices In The United States, Carolyn Nadeau, Jennifer Boll, '14, Hannah Smith, '14

Carolyn A Nadeau

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The Quest For Identity And Belonging: Don Quixote And Its Relation To The Biracial Experience, Carolyn Nadeau, Olivia Semeria, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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Español: Rugrats Y Don Quijote De La Mancha: La Perspectiva Del Niño, Carolyn Nadeau, Kylene Wolfe, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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“Unchanging Representations Of Muslims In Don Quijote And 21st Spain”, Carolyn Nadeau, Ivy Craig, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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Promising Travels And Unfulfilled Dreams: A Comparison Of Of Mice And Men And El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha (Viajes Promotedores Y Sueños Incumplidos: Una Comparación De Of Mice And Men Y El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha), Carolyn Nadeau, Scott Meyers, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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“A Psychological Investigation Of Reality And Fantasy Seen Within Don Quixote” “ Una Investigación Psicológica De Realidad Y Fantasia Visto En Don Quijote”, Carolyn Nadeau, Nina Butler, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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The Significance Of The Windmills In Don Quixote Of La Mancha El Significado De Los Molinos De Viento En Don Quijote De La Mancha, Carolyn Nadeau, Rosaleen Egan, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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La Blanca Mano: Un Paralelo Entre Cervantes Y La Generación 1,5 (The White Hand: A Parallel Between Cervantes And The 1.5 Generation), Carolyn Nadeau, Sylvia Rusin, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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Don Quijote A Través De La Literatura Infantil/Don Quijote Through Children’S Literature, Carolyn Nadeau, Elizabeth Exo, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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The Context Of Diabetes Within The Hispanic Population El Contexto De La Diabetes Entre La Población Hispana, Carolyn Nadeau, Sarah Berk, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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Don Quixote Through The Freirean Lens (Don Quijote A Través Del Lente Freireano), Carolyn Nadeau, Alejandro Monzon, '13

Carolyn A Nadeau

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The Narrative Premise Of The Dual Ending To Galdós's La Fontana De Oro, Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

THE readers of the 1871 edition of Galdós's La Fontana de Oro are greeted with not onlyy two alternative conclusions to the novel, but also with an invitation by the narrator to freely choose a preferred ending after considering them both. The situation is further complicated by the narrative pretense that the tragic vision is the true account of the facts while the happy one is an artistic rendering. By presenting his reading public with this dilemma over a century ago, Galdós raised questions about the nature of narrative conventions which are similar to those issues being addressed by narratologists …

On The Cutting Edge: Innovative Services That Blend Technology With Purpose, Helen Y. Chu

Helen Y. Chu

Join this lively session for a look at three exciting and innovative services being offered to meet new challenges on our campuses including data management, the need to rethink and repurpose physical spaces, and the growing services required to support the mobile tsunami. - Providing Data Management Support for Faculty at Trinity University - Mobile Services for Faculty and Students at Baylor University - A New Look into Space at the University of Oregon

Moscatel Morisco: The Role Of Wine In The Formation Of Morisco Identity, Carolyn Nadeau

Carolyn A Nadeau

Luis Goytisolo's Teoría Del Conocimiento As Postmodern Autobiography, Terri Carney

Terri M. Carney

Teoría del conocimiento es la última novela de la famosa tetralogía de Goytisolo, Antagonía. En este estudio trato la obra como autobiografía postmoderna. Repleto de referencias autobiográficas a la vida de Goytisolo y estructurada como bildungsroman, queda como exploración de autoría, subjetividad, y la posibilidad de agencia en una realidad post-totalitaria y postmoderna. Goytisolo cuidadosamente crea la ilusión de una autobiografía convencional solo para luego socavar la premisa de un sujeto plenario y la transparencia del lenguaje, dejando a los lectores con una versión alternative del ser y autor, encarnado en el personaje peculiar de El Viejo.