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Beyond sentidiño
Beyond Sentidiño: New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Culture is an interdisciplinary study of Galician literature, languages, and cultures. The volume brings together essays from fields across the humanities and social sciences to foster a discussion that incorporates new concepts that, as of now, are not part of the imaginary of Galiza: gentrification, language imperialism, youth unemployment, deruralization and deindustrialization, media control, technocapitalism, and gender and sexual normativity. It also serves to moderate a conversation about how independence from the political, material, and sociocultural networks of autonomic Galiza allows diasporic scholars to think of Galician culture in a de-essentializing manner. Working and living in the diaspora provides a lens through which to unmask the hegemonic neocolonial and neoliberal representation and reproduction of Galicianness promoted by different social, political, and mediatic powers.
Language for Specific Purposes
In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kinds of courses, responds to this discussion and provides curricular models for language programs that build practical language skills specific to a profession or field. Contributions in the book reinforce those models with national survey results, demonstrating the demand for and benefits of LSP instruction. With ten original research-based chapters, this volume will be of interest to high school and university language educators, program directors, linguists, and anyone looking to design LSP courses or programs in any world language.
Weaving Tales
This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.
Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World
This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeeth-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It underscores the crucial role that the imitation of Christ plays in modeling how representative writers physically and mentally interiorize temporal impermanence as the Messiah’s suffering body becomes a paradigmatic as well as malleable marker of the avatars of earthly history. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile post-eschatological world and the increased dominance of mechanical clock time. As novel means of communing with Christ emerge, so too do new modes of sensing and understanding time, unleashing unprecedented cultural and literary reinvention. This is demonstrated through close analyses of writings by such influential figures as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Don Quixote’s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature
This book offers a reading particularly of Part II of Don Quixote, a reading that is embedded in a philosophical reflection on the revelation of religious truth in and through literature. Part II of Don Quixote is the far richer part for its meta-literary reflection on the novel itself as a genre and on life as such seen through the lens of self-reflection. The author has treated the phenomenon of modern self-reflexivity as originally theological in nature in previous publications (notably Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection, Routledge, 2021). The present endeavor expands this overall intellectual project, exten...
Studi Interculturali 1-2/2016
PIER FRANCESCO ZARCONE: Approccio a un Messico problematico 7 GIANNI FERRACUTI: Dejándome llevar de un impulso romántico: Valle-Inclán e l'esotismo messicano della Sonata de estío 41 MARIO FARAONE: I went almost everywhere on horseback: il viaggio interculturale di Anthony Trollope, scrittore e ufficiale postale di sua maestà 73 MANUEL ROSSINI: Il sillabario del biopotere: immagine, dominio e mobilitazione totale 97 FEDERICO DONELLI: Leggi suntuarie e moda come strumento di potere nell'Impero Ottomano tra XVII e XIX secolo 133 NOTE E RECENSIONI PIER FRANCESCO ZARCONE: Riflessioni su Cristianesimo e Islam 161 CHIARA SAVIGNANO: Il cibo e il suo diritto nelle Costituzioni: sicurezza e sovranità alimentare 170 STEFANO WULF: Omaggio a Dino Campana 181
Mi madre soñaba en francés
"Conocer lo más próximo, lo que se ha despreciado por evidente, solo me sería dado si me alejaba de mi lengua. Así llegó el relato de mi madre, un mensaje íntimo disfrazado de extranjero." Entregado al aprendizaje de idiomas, Juan cree encontrar en las palabras un refugio emocional que le permite lidiar con todo aquelloque en la vida le explota en la cara: la compleja relación con su madre, que le pide interpretar un poema de César Moro para hallarla; su obsesión con los enredos sentimentales de su prima, a la vez perversa y protectira; la ausencia de su padre, un hoyo negro que tiñe el paisaje de oscuridad; o los parajes por los que transita, siempre a un paso de adoptarlo o engullirlo. Luis HernánCastañeda ha compuesto una novela personalísima, madura en su apropiación de múltiples recursos narrativos, no exenta de elegancia ni sentido del humor. Lo que es mejor, está construida bajo el más noble ideal artístico: la fe en que el lenguaje puede transformar la realidad.
Queer Rebels
Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international literary legacy. The first part revolves around the metaphor of a rebellious scribe who queers literary tradition by clandestinely weaving changes into copies of the books he makes. This subversive writing act, named ‘Mazuf’s gesture’ after the protagoni...
Inclusion, Education and Translanguaging
This open access book is designed as an international anthology on the broader subject of inclusion, education, social justice and translanguaging. Prefaced by Ofelia García, the volume unites conceptional and empirical contributions focusing on various actors within educational institutions, from early childhood to secondary education and teacher training, while offering insights into multiple European and North-American educational systems.
Crewel Creatures
Beautiful bird and animal designs, inspired by the African world, in crewel and Jacobean embroidery. Following the success of Crewel Intentions and Crewel Twists, which introduced embroiderers to using needle-lace and loom-weaving techniques, comes Crewel Creatures, the third title in this series by renowned embroiderer Hazel Blomkamp. Animals and birds are popular subjects in crewel embroidery, and here Hazel introduces needleworkers to the beautiful, exotic creatures found in the African wild. Following the Jacobean embroidery style for which Hazel is well known, and incorporating the subtle influence of the fractal designs found in zentangle art, Hazel brings beads and other three-dimensi...
