Showing papers in "Hispania in 2006"
TL;DR: A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean has been made by Bolles as mentioned in this paper, who provided an engaging interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender relations in the Caribbeans.
Abstract: "A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean."--A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland This volume provides an engaging interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexual relations in the Caribbean. Essays from sociological, literary, historical, and political science approaches cover the Hispanic-, French-, and English-speaking Caribbean areas and address topics such as sexuality, homosexuality, culture, the body, the status of women, and the wider social relations that inform these subjects. Contents Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Culture in the Caribbean: An Introduction Part 1. Theoretical Mediations on Gender in the Caribbean 1. Theorizing Ruptures in Gender Systems and the Project of Modernity in the Twentieth Century Caribbean, by Violet Eudine Barriteau 2. The Globalization of the Discourse on Gender and Its Impact on the Caribbean, by Hilbourne Watson 3. Caribbean Masculinity: Unpacking the Narrative, by Linden Lewis Part 2. The Political Terrain of Gender and Sexuality 4. A Blueprint for Gender in Creole Trinidad: Exploring Gender Mythology through Calypsos of the 1920s and 1930s, by Patricia Mohammed 5. Popular Imageries of Gender and Sexuality: Poor and Working-Class Haitian Women's Discourses on the Use of Their Bodies, by Carolle Charles 6. "The Infamous Crime against Nature" Constructions of Heterosexuality and Lesbian Subversions in Puerto Rico, by Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler Part 3. Sexual Orientation and Male Socialization in the Caribbean 7. The Role of the Street in the Socialization of Caribbean Males, by Barry Chevannes 8. Masculinity and Power in Puerto Rico, by Rafael Ramirez 9. Queering Cuba: Male Homosexuality in the Short Fiction of Manuel Granados, by Conrad James Part 4. Gender, Sexuality, and Historical Considerations 10. Struggling with a Structure: Gender, Agency, and Discourse, by Glyne Griffith 11. "It Hurt Very Much at the Time" Patriarchy, Rape Culture, and the Slave Body-Semiotic, by Joseph C. Dorsey Linden Lewis is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Bucknell University and the author of numerous articles on the Caribbean.
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TL;DR: The authors explored the effectiveness of derivational morphological analysis as a tool to expand the breadth and depth of Spanish L2 vocabulary and found that explicit strategy instruction of this sort may yield immediate benefits in the areas of receptive and productive knowledge of Spanish derivational morphology, but not in vocabulary size.
Abstract: Research on the mastery of L1 and L2 derivational morphology as a tool for vocabulary acquisition is reviewed, along with empirical studies on learners' knowledge of L2 derivational morphology, and on the use of morphological analysis as a useful tool for aiding L2 vocabulary acquisition. The concepts of breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are explored, as well as vocabulary-learning strategies and the rationale for teaching learners to use them. A Sight Vocabulary test, a Productive Knowledge test, and a Receptive Knowledge test are used here to explore the effectiveness of derivational morphological analysis as a tool to expand breadth and depth of Spanish L2 vocabulary. The results discussed indicate that explicit strategy instruction of this sort may yield immediate benefits in the areas of receptive and productive knowledge of Spanish derivational morphology (depth of knowledge), but not in vocabulary size (breadth of knowledge). Implications of the results for the L2 classroom are addressed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed chat-room communication during a ten-week collaboration between university-level Spanish L1 learners of English and English L 1 learners of Spanish, aiming to relate this Internet-based community of learners to the Communities standard, illustrating how learners can become integrated into a bilingual speech community.
Abstract: Situated in the Five Cs of the National Standards framework (Communication, Cultures, Comparisons, Connections, and Communities), this study analyzes chat-room communication during a ten-week collaboration between university-level Spanish L1 learners of English and English L1 learners of Spanish. The study aims to relate this Internet-based community of learners to the "Fifth C," the Communities standard, illustrating how learners can become integrated into a bilingual speech community, which can subsume the remaining four Cs of the Standards. Suggestions will be made for updating the Communities Standard.
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TL;DR: In this article, a volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.
Abstract: This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic information about their content, composition, internal ordering, publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on their variety, unity, exemplarity, and supposed 'hidden mystery'. After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, and to the dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University College Cork.
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TL;DR: De Armas et al. as mentioned in this paper focus on Cervantes' contributions to the tradition of ekphrasis, and utilize this rhetorical device as synecdoche for Cervante's innovations and transformations of art and thought during a period that has been called the Spanish Golden Age.
Abstract: Among the many ancient techniques that shift or become problematized during the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, this volume focuses on one in particular, that of ekphrasis. It is through the lens of experimentation with the technique of ekphrasis that we can view Cervantes' texts. Don Quixote can be studied through the constant contamination and agony between the visual and the verbal arts. This collection, then, seeks to foreground Cervantes' contributions to the tradition of ekphrasis, and utilizes this rhetorical device as synecdoche for Cervantes' innovations and transformations of art and thought during a period that has been called the Spanish Golden Age. The book renames this period as the Age of Cervantes and also seeks to show how not only Cervantes, but also his predecessors, contemporaries, and contenders viewed the relationship between the arts and particularly, the use of ekphrasis. Frederick A. De Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities and Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
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TL;DR: This article conducted an exploratory study involving faculty who published in Spanish service learning between 1999-2003 and found that faculty viewed their publications as having a greater impact on their teaching and their involvement in disciplinary and higher education initiatives than on variables benefiting the community and on efforts promoting the engaged department.
Abstract: How does published service-learning scholarship in Spanish affect faculty roles and rewards within their departments and institutions as well as local communities and higher education and disciplinary associations? This article reports and discusses the findings of an exploratory study involving faculty who published in Spanish service-learning between 1999-2003. According to the findings, faculty viewed their publications as having a greater impact on their teaching and their involvement in disciplinary and higher education initiatives than on variables benefiting the community and on efforts promoting the engaged department.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the influx of these new trends in medievalism and, more specifically, in the intepretation of historical texts, using examples from French, Catalan and Castilian chronicles and genealogies.
Abstract: Since the 1970s, historiography has been subject to new tendencies that can generally be grouped under the multifaceted concept of «postmodernism». This article explores the influx of these new trends in medievalism and, more specificly, in the intepretation of historical texts. The first part of the article describes the theoretical positions of the socalled «new medievalism». In the second part, the author analyzes the results of its application to the study of medieval historiography, using examples from French, Catalan and Castilian chronicles and genealogies. Specifically, he looks at the following key aspects of reconsidering medieval historiography in the context of postmodernism and the new medievalism: the historical text as a literary artefact; the social logic of the historical text; the function of genealogies; the relationship between past, present and future and the idea of presentism; the connection between social mutations and literary transformations; the prosification and the vernacularization of the chronicles; and the political function of historiography.
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TL;DR: This article explored students' perspectives through the five years of a community-based language program at Pitzer College, which encourages students to engage in social interactions where meaningful language practice occurs, where an understanding of diverse cultural perspectives emerges, and where strong longterm interpersonal relationships develop.
Abstract: This article explores students' perspectives through the five years of a community-based language program at Pitzer College. The model encourages students to engage in social interactions where meaningful language practice occurs, where an understanding of diverse cultural perspectives emerges, and where strong longterm interpersonal relationships develop. Likewise, the community participants and their children receive both practical and emotional benefits. In addition the program provides preparation for those students who study abroad, and a smooth transition when they return. Also, this experience has given program faculty sufficient understanding to begin developing a new Spanish major integrating social science and humanities courses taught in Spanish with community-based experiences at home and abroad.
TL;DR: In this article, a volume of essays on the fourteenth-century "Libro de Buen Amor" by Anglophone Hispanists comprises survey articles (author and milieu, print and manuscript traditions, metrics, exempla and proverbs, modern theoretical treatments of the "libro"), fresh readings of a key passage (the encounter between Don Amor and the Archpriest, and don Melon and dona Endrina), and appraisals of the 'Libro's" meanings and structure as pre-novelistic discourse, and through chaos theory
Abstract: Este nuevo volumen ofrece ensayos de especialistas anglofonos sobre el Libro de Buen Amor, obra monumental del siglo XIV. El volumen responde a la necesidad de un enfoque actualizado que examina el estado de las cuestiones principales (como son la de la autoria y su contexto, la metrica, las tradiciones manuscrita e impresa, el uso de exempla y proverbios, y las aproximaciones teoricas al Libro) y sus implicaciones para una lectura del Libro. Ademas aporta dos estudios de uno de los episodios principales (el encuentro del arcipreste con Don Amor hasta la muerte de Dona Endrina). Se explora tambien la estructura de la obra juanruizana como un texto pre-novelistico en el sentido bajtiniano y desde la teoria del caos. Contribuyen: Laurence de Looze, Alan Deyermond, Martin Duffell, Elizabeth Drayson, Jeremy Lawrance, Dorothy S. Severin, Barry Taylor, y los editores. This volume of essays on the fourteenth-century "Libro de Buen Amor" by Anglophone Hispanists comprises survey articles (author and milieu, print and manuscript traditions, metrics, exempla and proverbs, modern theoretical treatments of the "Libro"), fresh readings of a key passage (the encounter between Don Amor and the Archpriest, and don Melon and dona Endrina), and appraisals of the "Libro's" meanings and structure as pre-novelistic discourse, and through chaos theory. Contributors are Alan Deyermond, Elizabeth Drayson, Martin Duffell, Jeremy Lawrance, Laurence de Looze, Dorothy S. Severin, Barry Taylor, and the editors.
TL;DR: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States as discussed by the authors provides comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the nation, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Abstract: A landmark scholarly work, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the nation. With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, the Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A to Z articles ranging in length from 500 words to 7,500 words written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. Each entry has its own bibliography and cross-references and is signed by its author. Essential for scholarly and professional researchers as well as the classroom and library, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States will fill a void in the historical scholarship of an under-served population. This title is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.
TL;DR: The casebook as mentioned in this paper gathers essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography, and includes pieces by other major Cervantes scholars, such as Manuel Duran and Edward C. Riley.
Abstract: This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical study of Don Quixote as essentially a comic book by studying its mixture of styles, and include Leo Spitzer's masterful probe into the essential ambiguity of the novel through minute linguistic analysis of Cervantes prose. The book includes pieces by other major Cervantes scholars, such as Manuel Duran and Edward C. Riley, as well as younger scholars like Georgina Dopico-Black. All these essays ultimately seek to discover that which is peculiarly Cervantean in Don Quixote and why it is considered to be the first modern novel.
TL;DR: The first comprehensive history of Spanish literature to be published in English since the 1970s brings together experts from the USA, the United Kingdom, and Spain this article, together with essays covering the full range of Spanish poetry, prose, and theatre from the early Middle Ages to the present day.
Abstract: This first comprehensive history of Spanish literature to be published in English since the 1970s brings together experts from the USA, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Together, the essays cover the full range of Spanish poetry, prose, and theatre from the early Middle Ages to the present day. The classics of the canon of eleven centuries of Spanish literature are covered, from Berceo, Cervantes and Calderón to Garcı́a Lorca and Martı́n Gaite, but attention is also paid to lesserknown writers and works. The chapters chart a wide range of literary periods and movements. The volume concludes with a consideration of the influences of film and new media on modern Spanish literature. This invaluable book contains an introduction, more than fifty substantial chapters, a chronology (covering key events in history, literature, and art), a bibliography, and a comprehensive index for easy reference.
TL;DR: The authors examines key contribution of African people to Latin America in an effort to provide a first step to those tendiera who would like to integrate African tiernes in a heir etasaes.
Abstract: The contributinos of Africano boye left significant marko 00 many aspecto of Latin American life incloding ito history, ito people, ito mosic, ito religion, ito titeratore, ito langoage, and even ita everyday culture. The African element is nne of threc main componento in the shaping of the multi-ethnic culture of Latin America. Yet, the African presence in these domaino has beco ignored or downplayed in most textbooks and cinas matermis. Through a closer look into cadi of chese aspecto, teachero can begin to address tic imbalance created by tie teaciing of Hispanie cutturcs from onty a Eurocentric peropective. Ibis paper examines key contributiono tiat Africano have brougit to Latin America in an cffort to provide a first step to those tendiera who wootd tike to integrate African tiernes in aheir etasaes
TL;DR: The authors conducted a qualitative case study in a perinatal clinic in which English-speaking health care professionals serve monolingual Spanish-speaking patients, examining the relationship between EH professionals and their Spanish speaking patients.
Abstract: The author conducted a qualitative case study in a perinatal clinic in which English-speaking health care professionals serve monolingual Spanish-speaking patients. The perspective of this group of participants indicated that available texts are not appropriate to their needs, which are highly context-dependent and there fore difficult to predict. A process pilot syllabus demonstrates potential ways to address more flexibly the importance of focusing on receptive skills and strategy instruction. sionals, examining the relationship between English-speaking health-care professionals and their Spanish-speaking patients in a perinatal clinic. The research questions addressed the nature of communication in the clinic setting, the language learned, how language was learned, and the language-learning needs of the participants. Data were collected in the form of observations, field notes, interviews, document analysis, and member checks (participant feedback). The clinic setting in which the study was conducted was a non-traditional learning envi ronment and it quickly became apparent that current language acquisition models assume a classroom environment. Participants were able independently to acquire relevant productive abilities, but not receptive abilities. Development of listening strategies was particularly impor tant to the participants in this study because their deceptively fluent production did not reflect their limited receptive capacity. For this group of learners, language acquisition began and ended with output. For working professionals trying to acquire a second language on the job, a focus on strate gy instruction for lifelong learning was essential. Strategy training can be applied broadly by different professionals in different contexts at different points in time. This frees instructors from guessing what productive and receptive language skills learners might need. In preparing a course, instructors can focus preparation on direct strategy instruction and activities aimed at the development of receptive skills while waiting until after initial contact with the students to refer them to appropriate resources for language production and assist them in getting the language they need into a form that will be useful. This article will first address the paucity of available materials for working professionals who need Spanish in the workplace. Framed around a discussion of the importance of strategy instruction for lifelong learning, a pilot syllabus for Spanish for medical professionals will be presented that both addresses the conclusions of the study and adheres to an appropriate syllabus design framework.
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional study was conducted to analyze the preposition por and para using a corpus that includes four levels of undergraduate learners of L2 Spanish, and the main objective of this analysis was to investigate the ac curacy of these prepositions for learners who have only studied in a classroom setting and who have not studied or lived abroad in the target culture.
Abstract: In this cross-sectional study, we analyze the prepositions por and para using a corpus that includes four levels of undergraduate learners of L2 Spanish. The main objective of this analysis is to investigate the ac curacy of these prepositions for learners who have only studied in a classroom setting and who have not studied or lived abroad in the target culture. In light of the findings, we then consider current strategies for teaching por and para and note ways in which the most common explanations found in textbooks, especially the tendency to present them in opposition, may not necessarily coincide with the difficulties learners have or with the pre positions' functions in discourse.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the two different expository models adopted by the Spanish administration in regard to each colonial territory, models which also included the "exhibiton" of Guinean and Moroccan natives.
Abstract: Durante la Exposicion Iberoamericana celebrada en Sevilla en 1929-1930 se organizo una exhibicion colonial que apenas ha interesado a la historiografia. Alli se mostraron al publico las dos principales posesiones espanolas en Africa: el protectorado de Marruecos y la Guinea espanola. Ademas de describir los correspondientes pabellones- y lo que en ellos se exhibe- y de contextualizar adecuadamente la exposicion en relacion con los eventos similares contemporaneos, el proposito de este articulo es mostrar los diferentes modelos de exhibicion que la administracion escenifica en relacion con ambos territorios, que excluyen la "exhibicion" de nativos guineanos y marroquies. Comprobaremos como la exposicion deja entrever tanto las limitaciones de ambos procesos de colonizacion como la imposibilidad de articular un nuevo modelo de imperialismo hispano-africano. [ABSTRACT]In the Exposicion Iberoamericana - the Ibero-American Exposition- of Seville in 1929-1930, an interesting colonial exhibition was organized which has been hitherto unstudied. It was arranged in two sections: the Spanish protectorate of Morocco and Spanish Guinea. The present paper describes both colonial pavilions and the products and collections displayed there, and it compares this exhibition to similar contemporary events. We will analyse the two different expository models adopted by the Spanish administration in regard to each colonial territory, models which also included the "exhibiton" of Guinean and Moroccan natives. Finally, we will see how the exhibition suggests the limitations of each of these processes of colonization as well as the impossibility of articulating a new model of Hispanic-African imperialism.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study several translations of Arabic texts into Spanish, some hitherto unknown or considered lost, and discuss the cases of various prominent Spanish scholars and Historians of the time, who, like the marquis of Mondejar, devoted themselves to Arabic Studies as an essential instrument for constructing the history of Spain.
Abstract: This paper looks at Arabic Studies in 17th-century Spain. According to the Traditional interpretation, this century saw an «eclipse» in Spanish oriental Scholarship. On the contrary, I will try to show that there was a continuous and Permanent interest in Arabic Studies in Spain, not least because of the numerous Questions raised by the forgery of the Lead Books of Sacromonte of the late 16th Century. To demonstrate this continuity, I study several translations of Arabic texts Into Spanish, some hitherto unknown or considered lost. I also discuss the cases of Various prominent Spanish scholars and historians of the time, who, like the marquis of Mondejar, devoted themselves to Arabic Studies as an essential Instrument for constructing the history of Spain. This paper looks at Arabic Studies In 17th-century Spain. According to the traditional interpretation, this century Saw an «eclipse» in Spanish oriental scholarship. On the contrary, I will try to Show that there was a continuous and permanent interest in Arabic Studies in Spain, not least because of the numerous questions raised by the forgery of the Lead Books of Sacromonte of the late 16th century. To demonstrate this continuity, I Study several translations of Arabic texts into Spanish, some hitherto unknown or Considered lost. I also discuss the cases of various prominent Spanish scholars and Historians of the time, who, like the marquis of Mondejar, devoted themselves to Arabic Studies as an essential instrument for constructing the history of Spain.
TL;DR: The case study of the House of Medina Sidonia in the years of the VIII duke provides an excellent starting point in order to study how noble power managed to make their voice be heard among the king's closest circle of decision as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This article faces one institution, never studied before as such: the agencies of representation held by noble houses in the Royal Court. The case study of the House of Medina Sidonia in the years of the VIII duke provides an excellent starting point in order to study how noble power managed to make their voice be heard among the king’s closest circle of decision. The changes that took place during this period allow us to present it as a significant example of the long-term political strategy of the Medina Sidonia House. By this, we seek to avoid the relative exclusion of the socalled «periphery» by a certain historiography of the power phenomena in the Early Modern History, excessively concentrated inside the boundaries of the Royal Palace.
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of cultural awareness knowledge for teachers who teach Spanish to native speakers is discussed, and how teachers' beliefs about students can affect how those students are taught.
Abstract: This article discusses the importance of cultural awareness knowledge for teachers who teach Spanish to native speakers. The article is taken from a study that investigated pedagogical content knowledge, subject matter knowledge, and cultural awareness knowledge. The article discusses culturally relevant theory in relation to teaching students who are of a different culture/ethnicity than the teacher. In addition, it discusses the signifi cance of beliefs teachers have about students and their abilities. Furthermore, it discusses how teachers' beliefs about students can affect how those students are taught.