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Pijoaparte: El Pícaro Supermoderno En Últimas Tardes Con Teresa, De Juan Marsé, Nélida I. Devesa-Gómez

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

En este ensayo propongo una lectura de Manolo “el pijoaparte”, protagonista de Últimas tardes con Teresa de Juan Marsé, como revisión de la figura del pícaro. Para ello, mi análisis se centra, por un lado, en la construcción del personaje, y por otro, en su relación con el espacio urbano. Apoyándome en las teorías de Marc Augé y Michel de Certeau, sugiero que Últimas tardes con Teresa presenta un contraste entre la modernidad representada por Barcelona y la burguesía, y el pijoaparte, que a través de su itinerario por la ciudad, motivado por la aspiración social, muestra una actitud supermoderna.

Sábato: Consagración En La Ficción Y Marginación En La Ensayística, Héctor M. Gutiérrez

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

Se propone una periodización de la vida y obra de Sábato en tres etapas bien definidas. Estas tres fases, instauradas en su formación intelectual, se bosquejan progresivamente, siguiendo un orden no estrictamente cronológico, sino equilibradamente estructurado por los siguientes temas o preocupaciones centrales de cada período: la ciencia, (1925-1955) la política (1956-1976) y la espiritualidad (1980-2011). La primera etapa, esbozada en el presente artículo, delimita su profundo rompimiento con el mundo de la razón instrumental y el abandono de su carrera científica, proyectado en su libro de ensayos Uno y el Universo.

Recuperar Cuerpos: Imágenes Olvidadas Bajo Los Escombros De La Historia De La Literatura Ecuatoriana. Ideas Para Una Metodología, Karina S. Marín

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

Desde el acercamiento a los cuerpos de la novela fundacional A la Costa (Martínez, 1904), propongo como estrategia de lectura un proceso de remoción de escombros para encontrar restos y cicatrices que nos ayuden a entender y descentrar la idea de modernidad sobre la que se alza la tradición literaria ecuatoriana. Afirmo que una mirada atenta de los detalles usados para describir los cuerpos presentes en los textos más emblemáticos del canon literario ecuatoriano revela la paradoja latente en esa escritura: si por un lado se constituyen en imagen de lo inviable ante la potencia del proyecto nacional, por otro, …

The Feminine Characters In Soledad Acosta’S Una Holandesa En América And The Construction Of A New National Model, Laura Lopez

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

In the novel Una holandesa en América (A Dutchwoman in America), Soledad Acosta (1833-1913, Bogota, Colombia) traces the journey of a young woman, Lucía, to America. Acosta uses literary models such as the Bildungsroman and the chronicles of European travelers to explore women’s place in society of her time and the question of European modernity against American “barbarism” in the context of national construction. As most of the speeches around this topic are from men, Acosta offers a different point of view in the debate and puts into question-established ideas.

Editorial: “Descentrar La Modernidad”, Kevin R. Sedeño-Guillén

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

No abstract provided.

Leyendas Y Arquetipos Del Romanticismo Español, Segunda Edición, Robert Sanders

PDXOpen: Open Educational Resources

Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and social movements. It is designed as a first anthology for intermediate Spanish students at American universities. Although brief, it includes poetry, drama in verse and short story. The works have been selected for their literary interest and the social importance of their themes. They are all by canonical authors.

New for the Second Edition: over 4000 vocabulary, historical and cultural annotations to facilitate reading and comprehension.

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Introducción, Viviana Rigo De Alonso, María Lourdes Casas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Diana M. De Paco Serrano’S Killers: The Challenges Of Staging Violence Perpetrated By Women, Helen Freear-Papio

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Advanced Healthcare Spanish Language And Culture, Carmen Jany, Maria Mayberry

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

A third-year specialized Healthcare Spanish Language textbook

Culture, Health, And Food In Latin America, Carmen Jany, Maria Mayberry

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

A third-year specialized Healthcare Hispanic Culture textbook

Spanish For Healthcare & Related Fields, Carmen Jany, Maria Mayberry

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

A second-year specialized Healthcare Spanish Language textbook

Evaluative Reactions To Nonnative Spanish, Nyssa Knarvik, Cecily Corbett

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Other Graduate Student Scholarship

This study investigates whether there is a relationship between the native Spanish “Rater” evaluative reactions of Spanish spoken by second-language learners, called “Talkers,” based on the distance of their first language from Spanish. The Talkers’ first languages are grouped by distance from Spanish: close (Brazilian Portuguese and French), mid (Serbian and Polish), and far (Korean and Chinese). The Raters (n=50) are played recordings of the six Talkers reading the same story in Spanish and they are asked to rate each Talker on a 7-point Likert scale in 15 different categories (e.g. unintelligent/intelligent, easy/difficult to understand, and outgoing/shy). Results show statistically …

Explicar El Fracaso: Casa De Mi Padre (Piedmont, 2012), Liam Baldwin

Spanish: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Pirandello And Satire. The Imaginary Journey Of Four Authors In Search Of A Character According To Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930), Stefano Giannini

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

Drawing on a little-known work by Scott-Moncrieff, this article investigates Luigi Pirandello’s intellectual and literary reach across genres and space, from theater to pamphlets, from Italy to the English-speaking world. A talented writer and translator, Charles K. Scott-Moncrieff published “The Strange & Striking Adventures of Four Authors in Search of a Character” by P. G. Lear & L. O in 1926. The title of the pamphlet, and the acronym of the fictional author are references to Pirandello and to his Six Characters in Search of an Author. Scott-Moncrieff had all the documents in order to write about, or in …

Amores Que Matan Y Mujeres Que Sufren En El Teatro Español Contemporáneo, Rossana Fialdini Zambrano

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

This article review how the victim of gender violence is represented in several Spanish plays written by women authors and it also analyses the necessity to start changing female narratives regarding this troubling subject.

De La Sierra A La Ciudad. Violencia De Género Y Feminicidio En “El Limpiador” De Rocío Silva-Santiesteban, Viviana Rigo De Alonso

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Elefanta Exploradora, Paige Welsh

Open Access Books

La elefanta exploradora was written and illustrated in 2017 by Paige Welsh. The original text was edited and translated by Mackensy Asbell and Madeline Strelec. New, original illustrations were created by Rina Sato.

Toasting México In The American West: Brindis Poems And Political Loyalties Of Women's Mexican Patriotic Clubs, Vanessa O. Perez

English Faculty Publications

Brindis poems were popular in the nineteenth century. Accompanied by the raise of a glass, their verses were meant to celebrate a person or event. Only two decades after the Mexican-American War, Latinas/os living in the newly annexed territories of the American West found themselves using the brindis genre to declare their loyalties to Mexico against a new invader, France. Among the most ardent supporters of the Mexican army's fight against French imperialism were lower and middle-class Latinas who formed Mexican patriotic clubs exclusively for women in California and Nevada. This article examines one brindis series recited by women of …

[Review Of] Estrada, Oswaldo, Ed. Senderos De Violencia. Latinoamérica Y Sus Narrativas Armadas, Cheyla Samuelson

Faculty Publications

A review of Estrada, Oswaldo, ed. Senderos de violencia. Latinoamérica y sus narrativas armadas. Valencia: Albatros (Serie Palabras de América), 2015. Impreso. 367 pp.

Women In Warfare: Spanish Christian Soldiers As Rapists In Early Modern Romances, Stacey L. Parker Aronson

Spanish Publications

The omnipresence of military conflict brings many hardships and dangers for women in Early Modern Europe. In the socio-historical reality of military skirmishes since time immemorial, the rape of the female (and male) occupants of conquered territory was as ubiquitous and as opportunistic an act as one could imagine by which to brutalize and demean the populace. I will analyze two romances—“Romance cuarto. De cómo don Rodrigo de Vivar mató á dos moros que forzaban una dama mora y la rescató” and “Soldados forzadores”—both of which describe the rape of women by Spanish Christian soldiers. While Spanish Christian soldiers might …

La Música Popular Argentina Entre El Campo Y La Ciudad: Música Campera, Criolla, Nativa, Folklórica, Canción Federal Y Tango, Julia Chindemi Vila, P. Vila

Spanish Faculty Works

In the early twentieth century tango functioned as an important cultural artifact in defense of the integration of the newly arrived European immigrants into the nation. Until it achieved its hegemony in the late 1930s, tango shared popularity with the so-called “canción criolla” (creole song), which commercially competed with great success until the mid-1930s. This type of music was the traditional music of the gaucho, who while physically disappearing from the countryside, was symbolically reinstated as the core of Argentine nationality by the “criollista” movement, promoted by the Argentine elite. At that time tango continuously mix, in a very complex …

Family Documents, Analogy And Reconciliation In The Works Of Carme Riera, Kathryn Everly

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

Carme Riera's works Temps d'innocencia and La mitat de l'anima explore the restorative power of fiction and memoir in coming to terms with personal and national loss regarding the Spanish Civil War.

Toggling The Switches, Zach Thomas

Bridges: A Journal of Student Research

In this paper, I use Richard Lanham's work within the field of rhetoric to explore the rhetorical implications of multilingualism and code switching. Specifically, I will discuss and question some of the basic assumptions of employing another language: What is at stake when we communicate with others in another language, especially native speakers? How might using an L2 language and recognizing/using different dialects within that language cause a speaker to reconsider their native tongue? What does the presence of numerous regional peculiarities and nonstandard varieties within languages say about our desire for "ideal" or "standard" speech?

Mapa Dibujado Por Un Espía: Crónica Autobiográfica Y Poética De La Memoria, Isabel Alvarez-Borland

Spanish Department Faculty Scholarship

Mapa dibujado por un espía, a memoir by Guillermo Cabrera Infante ( published in 2013 by his widow Miriam Cabrera Infante), describes the experience of not being able to leave Cuba during four months, period in which the author had returned to his country in order to attend the funeral of his mother, Zoila Infante in 1965. My reading examines this memoir in its autobiographical dimension and seeks to illuminate the presence in this work of several voices that appear in tension with one another. My study focuses on these voices as it pays attention in particular to the …

The "Hair" Factor, Humanism, Neoplatonism, And The Empire Building In The Spanish Golden Age, Katherine Gatto

2017 Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Activating Informality: Negotiating Urban Identities In Bolivia And Brazil, Georgia E. Gempler

Latin American Studies Honors Projects

Drawing on original research, this paper explores the relationship between community identity and informality in Bolivia and Brazil, answering the question “How does informality influence and operate as identity in the social imaginary of urban Bolivia and Brazil?” Based on case studies of informal settlements in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia and Niterói, Brazil, I argue that informality is a tool of social control, community resistance, and identity consolidation. Community identity is informed by the territorial stigmatization of place through national conceptualizations of race and violence, and histories of marginality, resulting in resistance identity and insurgent citizenships.

Preserving The Community In Gabriel García Márquez’S Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada (Chronicle Of A Death Foretold), Grace Gomashie

Languages and Cultures Publications

In García Márquez’s novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author deftly applies names to transmit the novel’s themes. In this paper, we analyse García Márquez’s text from the perspective of community. We examine how names are used discursively to portray the roles of characters and their contributions to the fictional community in the novel, and explore the role of patriarchy in a society’s ambivalent commitment to preserving a community ideal known as the ‘cult of virginity’.

Meeting Student Needs: Integrating Spanish Heritage Language Learners Into The Second Language Classroom, Clara Burgo

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Despite the increase of Spanish heritage language (HL) courses in response to the linguistic needs of HL learners, these courses often combine this student population with advanced second language (L2) learners. This common scenario presents a challenge to many instructors who lack the training to negotiate intercultural and linguistic issues in the classroom so that all students can benefit. This essay presents key intercultural concerns (e.g., embarrassment and intimidation) and suggests strategies for instructors. Twenty-first-century students will work in collaborative contexts, so they must learn how to benefit from their classmates’ strengths and work on their weaknesses through peer interaction …

Los Cautivos De Argel, Natalio Ohanna

All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors

Esta edición de Los cautivos de Argel cumple el deber de reivindicar una valiosa obra del Siglo de Oro y ponerla al alcance de la comunidad académica y el público general en forma fiable. Su publicación en Clásicos Castalia viene a suplir un vacío en la historia editorial de esta pieza que bien merece ingresar en el canon de nuestras letras. Se trata de una fuente esencial para entender la literatura de cautiverio en su modalidad de espectáculo, así como la representación de las relaciones entre cristianos y musulmanes en un período de la vida de España marcado por la …

An Echo Of Swelling Voices, A Meta-Fictional Novella, Adolfo Danilo Lopez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Horacio P. is an exiled Nicaraguan American poet living and teaching in Austin, Texas since the 1970s. Despite his enormous reputation and highly supportive wife, he feels incapable to write his last, and best, novel. This novel is about the life of Asdreni, an Albanian poet who was also exiled in Romania during the time before World War II, and his quest to find out who sent him a mysterious box containing the unpublished manuscripts of an unknown poet. One day, Horacio himself also receives a mysterious box containing the unpublished manuscripts of an unknown poet. His novel and his …