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Teaching Central American literature in a global context
Title
Teaching Central American literature in a global context / edited by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez Gil.
ISBN
9781603295871
1603295879
9781603295888
1603295887
9781603295895
Publication
New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
vii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Provides approaches and methods for teaching Central American literature, film, and photography, including works by Indigenous and Afro-descendant people, in undergraduate classrooms. Topics include migration, political violence, diaspora, intersectionality, environmental humanities, war, gender, teaching in prisons, using maps in teaching, Black Power, race, Jewish fiction, and Mayan literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Teaching Central American literature in a global context New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2022
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 16, 2022
Series
Options for teaching, 58
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Gloria Elizabeth Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez Gil
Locating Central American literature. Central America in two negatives / Jorge E. Cuéllar
Gómez Carrillo's early writings: cosmopolitan desire and impressionistic criticism / Margarita Hernández de Polaczyk
Contradictions and ambivalence of the Nicaraguan vanguardistas / Verónica Ríos Quesada
Visual technologies and understanding Central America. Reading Central America through Google Maps and the novels of Horacio Castellanos Moya / Alberto Fonseca
A cinema not in ruins: gender and history in two Nicaraguan short films / Aarón Lacayo
Conceptualizing and problematizing space: Central American literature and culture in the Isthmus / Karina Zelaya and Brian Davisson
Peace and reconciliation: decoding belonging in Guatemalan photography / Julio Quintero
Many Central Americas: approaches to the films Ixcanul and El Regreso / Ignacio Carvajal Regidor, María Paz Carvajal Regidor, Marta Carvajal-Regidor, and Mónica Carvajal Regidor
Mayan literatures beyond the local. The Popol Wuj and Central American literature: narratives of resistance and cultural continuity / Néstor I. Quiroa
Teaching Indigenous literatures comparatively / Arturo Arias
Gaspar Pedro González's Return of the Maya in the age of family separation at the border / Patricia Arroyo Calderón
Introducing Mayan poetry from Central America in a Canadian context / Rita M. Palacios
Black and Jewish literatures from the Isthmus. Black power in Central American writing / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Black Central American literature and Quince Duncan / Sonja Stephenson Watson
Jewish Guatemalan fiction in a global context/ Stephanie Pridgeon
Representations of violence. Disaffection, alienation, and survival in the literature of postwar Central America / Nanci Buiza
Learning from senselessness: the act of reading in Horacio Castellanos Moya's Insensatez / Sophie Esch
Performing violence: Regina José Galindo and Guatemala / M. Emilia Barbosa
Teaching Central American and US Central American texts in universities and in prisons / Nancy Quintanilla
Toward epistemic justice: an intersectional approach to teaching trans-Central American literature / Mauricio Espinoza and Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez
Diasporas, memory, and deterritorialization. Reading the Northern Triangle as a gendered literary space / Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Migration and diaspora: Central American literature beyond the Isthmus / Tamara L. Mitchell
Rethinking refugeeness in diasporic documentaries / Guadalupe Escobar
Documenting the Salvadoran diaspora: countering the Central American threat narrative / Ester N. Trujillo
Environmental and social justice. Environmental humanities approaches to Central American texts in undergraduate curricula / Laura Barbas-Rhoden
#BertaVive: teaching environmental justice through Central American culture / Carolyn Fornoff
Learning about Archbishop Óscar Romero in the special collections archives / Susana S. Martínez
War, human experience, and nature in Central American literature / Tatiana Argüello.
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