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Mexican Spanish In The Twentieth Century - Stratification And Variation

by Margarita Hidalgo

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century explores the trends and patterns of sociolinguistic stratification and variation, providing a clearer understanding of linguistic variation in Mexican Spanish as spoken in the twentieth century.
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Mexican Spanish In The Twentieth Century - Stratification And Variation

by Margarita Hidalgo

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century explores the trends and patterns of sociolinguistic stratification and variation, providing a clearer understanding of linguistic variation in Mexican Spanish as spoken in the twentieth century.
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Contemporary Latina/O Theater - Wrighting Ethnicity

by Jon D. Rossini

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works - Miguel Pinero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, Jose Rivera, and Cherrie Moraga.
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Mario Bellatin Y Las Formas De La Escritura

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 Este libro reune la colaboracion de tres importantes escritores, asi como la de dieciseis destacados investigadores, en torno a la obra del escritor mexicano Mario Bellatin. Con un abordaje critico variado y multidisciplinario, cada seccion del libro resalta los distintos ejes tematicos que surgen de la misma obra de este escritor; a saber: la transliteratura, la filosofia, el cuerpo, el humor, el genero y la estetica. Ademas, el libro cuenta con un texto inedito de Mario Bellatin. En suma, se trata de un aporte critico importante sobre la obra de uno de los escritores contemporaneos mas sui generis del momento.
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Di,Logo De Voces - Nuevas Lecturas Sobre La Obra De Mar,A Rosa Lojo

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 Este volumen, compuesto por ocho ensayos y una suerte de epilogo dialogado con la escritora Maria Rosa Lojo, discute algunos de los ejes vertebradores de su obra: la conflictiva relacion con lo sagrado y su constante interpelacion, la memoria de la inmigracion, la presencia de figuras femeninas cuestionadoras del discurso masculino hegemonico o de otros personajes marginales que resignifican la historia oficial, los siempre cuestionados y cuestionables rasgos autobiograficos en su obra a partir de las figuras parentales o de una posible cartografia de la intimidad, la problematica identitaria a traves de los personajes que se ubican en un borde sospechoso entre dos mundos y el encuentro armonioso de diferentes esteticas, discursos y generos en el seno de sus obras.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - A Critical Companion

by Ruben Pelayo

53,66€ + 10% CARD

 In this work, readers are introduced to Garcia Marquez with an account of his life; from his friendships with poets and presidents, to his distinguished career as a journalist, novelist, and chronicler of the quintessential Latin American experience.
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Innovative Approaches To Research In Hispanic Linguistics - Regional, Diachronic, And Learner Profile Variation

116,60€ + 10% CARD

 This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods, together with a renewed focus on language variation, have advanced our field. This volume is divided into three sections of original research, with the first describing regional variation of Spanish, the second synchronic variation, and the third learner profile variation. Such nuanced descriptions and analyses would not be possible without new variationist research methods and big-data techniques such as the use of online corpora and data reduction analyses. These overarching themes represent a paradigm shift affecting the whole of Hispanic Linguistics, and are, therefore, best appreciated in an edited volume composed of diverse manifestations of trends like those included herein. The data from these submissions were originally presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted by Wake Forest University in 2021.
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Approaches To Teaching The Works Of Inca Garcilaso De La Vega

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 Offers techniques for teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in undergraduate classrooms, including considerations of mestizaje, transnational identity, interdisciplinarity, influence on modern historians and ethnographers, the Quechua language, Incan social structures, Incan myth and religion, and indigenous writing and culture.
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Gabriel Garc A M Rquez

by Jay Corwin

33,38€ + 10% CARD

 This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Marquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons.
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Aspects Of Latin American Spanish Dialectology - In Honor Of Terrell A. Morgan

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 This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics, combining theoretical approaches with empirical data collection. Overall, these chapters address topics concerning language variation and change, sound production and perception, contact linguistics, language teaching, language policy, and ideologies. The authors urge us, as linguists, to take a stand on important issues and to continue applying theory to praxis so as to advance the frontiers of research in the field. This edited volume in honor of Professor Terrell A. Morgan is a means of celebrating an amazing friend, advisor, and human being, who has dedicated his career to teaching graduate and undergraduate students, performed key research in the field, and helped to further pedagogy in the classroom through his textbooks, seminars and websites.
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Changing Women, Changing Nation - Female Agency, Nationhood, And Identity In Trans-Salvadoran Narratives

by Yajaira M. Padilla

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 Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.Changing Women, Changing Nation explores the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives during the span of the last thirty years. This exploration covers Salvadoran texts produced during El Salvador''s civil war (1980-1992) and the current postwar period, as well as US-Salvadoran works of the last two decades that engage the topic of migration and second-generation ethnic incorporation into the United States. Rather than think of these two sets of texts as constituting separate literatures, Yajaira M. Padilla conceives of them as part of the same corpus, what she calls "trans-Salvadoran narratives"-works that dialogue with each other and draw attention to El Salvador''s burgeoning transnational reality. Through depictions of women in trans-Salvadoran narratives, Padilla elucidates a "story" of female agency and nationhood that extends beyond El Salvador''s national borders and imaginings.
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Amazonian Spanish - Language Contact And Evolution

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 Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being replaced by Spanish. This situation of language expansion, contact, and bilingualism is reshaping the sociolinguistic landscape of the Amazon by creating a number of Spanish varieties with innovative linguistic features that require closer scholarly attention. The current book documents this situation in detail. The chapters in this volume include work on distinct geographical regions of the Amazon, with primary data collected using different methodologies and language contact situations. The scholars in this volume specialize in an array of fields, including anthropological linguistics, bilingualism, language contact, dialectology, and language acquisition. Their work represents both formal and functional approaches to linguistics.
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Hispanic Contact Linguistics - Theoretical, Methodological And Empirical Perspectives

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 This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina); and varied participant groups, ranging from dialect contacts, second-language learners and heritage speakers to balanced bilinguals and code-switchers. Taken together, the chapters provide rich empirical descriptions of data pertaining to different levels of language, diverse - naturalistic and experimental - methodological approaches to data collection, as well as theoretical implications of the findings. The interdisciplinary perspective adopted by the authors contributes to the linguistic analysis and offers important insights into theoretical linguistics in general, and into theories of sociolinguistics, language variation, bilingualism, and second language acquisition.
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Decolonial Puerto Rican Women'S Writings - Subversion In The Flesh

by Roberta Hurtado

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores representations of sentient-flesh â€" flesh that holds consciousness of being â€" in Puerto Rican womenâ€™s literature.
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Borges, Buddhism And World Literature - A Morphology Of Renunciation Tales

by Dominique Jullien

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 This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts.
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Taste, Politics, And Identities In Mexican Food

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 This book examines the history, archaeology, and anthropology of Mexican taste. Contributors analyze how the contemporary identity of Mexican food has been created and formed through concepts of taste, and how this national identity is adapted and moulded through change and migration.wing on case studies with a focus on Mexico, but also including Israel and the United States, the contributors examine how local and national identities, the global market of gastronomic tourism, and historic transformations in trade, production, the kitchen space and appliances shape the taste of Mexican food and drink. Chapters include an exploration of the popularity of Mexican beer in the United States by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an examination of the experience of eating chapulines in Oaxaca by Paulette Schuster and Jeffrey H. Cohen, an investigation into transformations of contemporary Yucatecan gastronomy by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, and an afterword from Richard Wilk. Together, the contributors demonstrate how taste itself is shaped through a history of social and cultural practices.
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Taste, Politics, And Identities In Mexican Food

40,53€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines the history, archaeology, and anthropology of Mexican taste. Contributors analyze how the contemporary identity of Mexican food has been created and formed through concepts of taste, and how this national identity is adapted and moulded through change and migration.wing on case studies with a focus on Mexico, but also including Israel and the United States, the contributors examine how local and national identities, the global market of gastronomic tourism, and historic transformations in trade, production, the kitchen space and appliances shape the taste of Mexican food and drink. Chapters include an exploration of the popularity of Mexican beer in the United States by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an examination of the experience of eating chapulines in Oaxaca by Paulette Schuster and Jeffrey H. Cohen, an investigation into transformations of contemporary Yucatecan gastronomy by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, and an afterword from Richard Wilk. Together, the contributors demonstrate how taste itself is shaped through a history of social and cultural practices.
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Of Such A Nature/Indole

by Jose Kozer

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 JosÃ© Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to win the Pablo Neruda Prize. This is a bilingual edition translated into English by Peter Boyle. In addition, Boyle provides an extensive introduction placing Kozer's work in a critical context.
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Syncing The Americas - José Martí And The Shaping Of National Identity

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 This book focuses on Jose Marti's reflections and critique of social, cultural, and political events in the United States between the years of 1880 and 1895, bringing together some of the most recognized scholars from the United States, Cuba, South America, and Europe studying Marti in a unique contribution and collaborative international effort.
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Afro-Peruvian Spanish - Spanish Slavery And The Legacy Of Spanish Creoles

by Sessarego Sandro Sessarego

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 The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions raised by McWhorter’s book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has focused on an aspect of the European colonial enterprise in the Americas that has never been closely analyzed in relation to the evolution of Afro-European contact varieties, the legal regulations of black slavery. This book proposes the ''Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis'', which ascribes a prime importance in the development of Afro-European languages in the Americas to the historical evolution of slavery, from the legal rules contained in the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis to the codes and regulations implemented in the different European colonies overseas. This research was carried out with the belief that creole studies will benefit greatly from a more interdisciplinary approach, capable of combining linguistic, socio-historical, legal, and anthropological insights. This study is meant to represent an eclectic step in such a direction.
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Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, And Language Contact - A Study Of Spanish Progressive -Ndo Constructions

by Torres Cacoullos Rena Torres Cacoullos

121,90€ + 10% CARD

 This is a study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexican. The title develops a grammaticization account of the variation in progressive constructions. The book looks at spatial expressions, patterns of synchronic variation and register considerations amongst many other topics.
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Distant Relation - Time And Identity In Spanish American Fiction

by Eoin S. Thomson

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 The Distant Relation breaks down the artificial division between philosophy and literature by weaving contemporary philosophic arguments through close readings of Carpentier, Rulfo, Paz, and Garcia Marquez. Thomson draws the reader into the largely uninhabited space between philosophy and literature, providing new critical strategies that allow text and reader to respond to the very distance they share. These strategies involve a reconceptualization of distance that recognizes the productive and affirmative nature of separation. The Distant Relation will attract anyone interested in the ongoing struggle to overcome conventional interpretations of language, time, and identity within the broader context of philosophical trends and Spanish American studies.
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Decolonizing Rhetoric And Composition Studies - New Latinx Keywords For Theory And Pedagogy

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 They also theorize new keywords to shed light on the great varieties of Latinx writing, rhetoric, and literacies that continue to emerge and circulate in the culture at large, in the hope that the field will feel more urgently the need to recognize, theorize, and teach the intersections of writing, pedagogy, and politics.
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Diachronic Applications In Hispanic Linguistics

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 This volume presents specific topics in diachronic Hispanic linguistics. These topics include: lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance, Arabisms, lexical variation in early modern Spain, the origins of the confusion of b with v, Andalusian Spanish in the Americas, the expansion of seseo and yeismo, processes of koineization, syntactic change in scribal documentation from the Middle Ages, and the semantic changes of the verbs ser, estar and haber. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the Spanish lexicon, phonetics, morphosyntax, dialectology and semantics with the input of ten prominent scholars.It focuses not only on relevant issues in the evolution of Spanish but also answers pertinent questions in the field such as: Why do we have Latin lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance and not in other Romance languages? What kind of social factors drove Arabic lexical borrowings? How did the advent of printing affect the standardization of the lexicon and orthography? What are the main theories to explain the confusion between b and v? How relevant was the role of the Andalusian dialect in the general historical evolution of Spanish in the Americas? What were the main social and demographic influences operating in the development of Spanish during the colonial period? How accurately did scribal practices represent the speech of the Middle Ages? How did ser (ESSERE), estar (STARE) and haber (HABERE) develop differently in Romance languages?
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