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Tendencias y perspectivas en el estudio de la morfosintaxis histórica hispanoamericana
Este volumen reúne una serie de trabajos que se centran en la morfosintaxis histórica hispanoamericana, con el propósito de atender en detalle esta parcela de la investigación lingüística. Las contribuciones siguen planteamientos teórico-metodológicos consolidados o se abren a nuevas perspectivas de análisis, todo ello para esclarecer la complejidad y la naturaleza de los fenómenos morfosintácticos de las variedades americanas del español. La reflexión en torno a los problemas y retos que implica el estudio de la morfosintaxis histórica hispanoamericana conlleva una serie de preguntas sobre los alcances de los corpus disponibles en la reconstrucción histórica del español americano, así como sobre las orientaciones metodológicas en el estudio de sus peculiaridades morfosintácticas, replanteando los “viejos problemas” desde nuevos puntos de vista. [Texto de la editorial]
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Colonial Latin American literature : a very short introduction
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the writings that debated the justice of the Spanish conquests, described the novelties of New World nature, expressed the creativity of Hispanic baroque culture in epic, lyric, and satirical poetry, and anticipated Latin American Independence. The works of Spanish, creole, and Amerindian authors highlighted here, including Bartolome de las Casas, Felipe Guaman Poma, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Andres Bello, have been chosen for the merits of their writings, their participation in the larger literary and cultural debates of their times, and their resonance among readers today. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
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Critical terms in Caribbean and Latin American thought : historical and institutional trajectories
\"This volume is a collection of critical essays on twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. Each one of these keywords is conceived in conversation with a broader cluster of terms The central question motivating our work is how can we think--epistemologically and pedagogically--about Latin American Studies as a field that has taken different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. Each keyword is presented in the anthology through a lead essay that reflects on a notion in conversation with other terms that are either derived, related, or posed as potential responses, subversions, or interrogations of the original keyword. The response essays supplement the lead essay by exploring the debate from a different disciplinary perspective or field (including discussions in Latin American, American, Caribbean, Ethnic and Latino, and Women and Gender Studies), or exploring an angle or aspect of the concept that was not necessarily discussed in the lead essay. The lead essay and response format encourages further debate around each specific term, highlighting North-South, South-South and South-North approaches to each critical term\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Converting Words
This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary range and depth of sources, William F. Hanks documents for the first time the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to become the language of indigenous literature, and how it ultimately became the language of rebellion against the system that produced it. Converting Words includes original analyses of the linguistic practices of both missionaries and Mayas-as found in bilingual dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, land documents, native chronicles, petitions, and the forbidden Maya Books of Chilam Balam. Lucidly written and vividly detailed, this important work presents a new approach to the study of religious and cultural conversion that will illuminate the history of Latin America and beyond, and will be essential reading across disciplinary boundaries.
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Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You
Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in Central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the manuscript painting is a singular document of indigenous response to Spanish conquest. Examining the ways in which the folio's tlacuilo (indigenous painter/writer) creates a pictorial vocabulary, this book embraces the place \"outside\" history from rich this rich document emerged.
Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation itself, José Rabasa reveals new perspectives on colonial order. Folio 46r becomes a metaphor for reading the totality of the codex and for reflecting on the postcolonial theoretical issues now brought to bear on the past. Ambitious and innovative (such as the invention of the concepts of elsewhere and ethnosuicide, and the emphasis on intuition), Tell Me the Story of Howl Conquered You embraces the performative force of the native scribe while acknowledging the ineffable traits of 46r-traits that remain untenably foreign to the modern excavator/scholar. Posing provocative questions about the unspoken dialogues between evangelizing friars and their spiritual conquests, this book offers a theoretic-political experiment on the possibility of learning from the tlacuilo ways of seeing the world that dislocate the predominance of the West.
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Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom
A critical resource for inclusive teaching in the
Spanish classroom
Although Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas,
many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and understanding
of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present
the Spanish language in context. By presenting a more complete
picture of the Spanish speaking world, Indigenous America in
the Spanish Language Classroom invites teachers to adjust
their curricula to create a more inclusive classroom.
Anne Fountain provides teachers with key historical and cultural
information about Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and
explains how to incorporate relevant resources into their curricula
using a social justice lens. This book begins with an overview of
the Iberian impact on Indigenous Americans and connects it to
language teaching, giving practical ideas that are tied to language
learning standards. Each chapter finishes with a list for further
reading, inviting teachers to dig deeper. The book ends with a set
of ten conclusions and an extensive list of resources organized by
topic to help teachers find accurate information about Indigenous
America to enrich their teaching. Fountain includes illustrations
that relate directly to teaching ideas.
Hard-to-find resources and concrete teaching ideas arranged by
level as well as a glossary of important terms make this book an
essential resource for all Spanish language teachers.
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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492–1898)
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492–1898) brings together an international team of scholars to explore new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for the study of colonialism.
Using four overarching themes, the volume examines a wide array of critical issues, key texts, and figures that demonstrate the significance of colonial Latin America and the Caribbean across national and regional traditions and historical periods.
This invaluable resource will be of interest to students and scholars of Spanish and Latin American studies examining colonial Latin America and the Caribbean at the intersection of cultural and historical studies; transatlantic, postcolonial and decolonial studies; and critical approaches to archives and materiality. This timely volume assesses the impact and legacy of colonialism and coloniality.
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Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America
An unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic crónica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chroniclers engaged with modernity in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when avant-garde movements transformed writers' and readers' conceptions of literature. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life examines the work of extraordinary raconteurs Salvador Novo, Cube Bonifant, Roberto Arlt, Alfonsina Storni, and Mário de Andrade, restoring the original newspaper contexts in which their articles first emerged. Each of these writers guided their readers through a constantly changing cityscape and advised them on matters of cultural taste, using their ties to journalism and their participation in urban practice to share accessible wisdom and establish their role as intellectual arbiters. The intimate ties they developed with their audience fostered a permeable concept of literature that would pave the way for overtly politically engaged chroniclers of the 1960s and 1970s. Providing comparative analysis as well as reflection on the evolution of this important genre, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America is the first systematic study of the Latin American writers who forged a new reading public in the early twentieth century.
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