Enables English speakers with no prior knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese to develop the basic communication skills and cultural knowledge needed to visit Brazil and to function in a work environment in which Portuguese is spoken.
The belief that land is sacred, embodying the memory and inheritance of those who sacrificed to settle it, is common among New Mexican Hispanos, or Nuevomexicanos, and Santa Fe serves as their unique geographic and symbolic center. The city will celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of its founding in 2010 and this anthology honors its role as ......
Narrative Innovation in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazan
Susan McKenna presents the innovative narratives of Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spain's preeminent nineteenth-century female writer, in ""Crafting the Female Subject"". Known for her novels and essays, Pardo Bazan (1851-1921) also authored more than 580 short stories, whose literary experimentation and concern for female subjectivity strikingly redefine ......
A comprehensive historical, social, and linguistic overview of Spanish in contact with other languages in all of its major contexts - in Spain, the United States, and Latin America.
Offers a comprehensive analysis of a variety of crucial issues in the phonology and morphophonology of various dialects of Spanish. This book includes margin notes to highlight key points and a glossary of constraints. It includes study questions, lists of the most influential sources for each chapter, and topics for further research.
Women across early modern Europe suffered repressive and restrictive patriarchal measures that denied them education and a voice. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Counter-Reformation Iberia. Yet there is increasing awareness of a wealth of cultural activity by women, produced in spite of long-cherished masculine notions of biological ......
Traces the importance of the Spanish language in the United States and presents an overview of the major varieties of Spanish that are spoken there. This work provides descriptions of the distinguishing characteristics of the major varieties, from Cuban and Puerto Rican, to the varieties dating back to the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Spanish Responses to Contemporary Moroccan Immigration
With the intense economic development and accelerated modernization experienced by Spain since the 1970s, and especially following its entrance into the European Economic Community in 1986, the country has undergone a rapid inversion in migratory patterns. After being an exporter of economic migrants for almost a century, in the last twenty years ......
Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers
For the past three decades, Latin American and Latina women writers have used autobiography, fiction, and a blend of the two genres to address the psychological struggle to heal from both personal and political traumas. Felicia Fahey focuses on six fictional autobiographies as literary representations of psychological recovery: Alina Diaconu's ......
