Maria João Maciel Jorge, professor and Associate Dean of Global and Community Engagement, released her newest book, The Hyphen: And Other Thoughts From the In-Between, with publisher Arquipélago Press. Within the pages of The Hyphen readers will find a collection of thoughtful and poignant essays exploring cultural heritage, hyphenated identity and the enduring pull of […]
In Reconstructions of Canadian Identity: Towards Diversity and Inclusion, editors Professor Maciel Jorge and Vander Tavares bring together diverse perspectives to investigate inclusion and exclusion within the processes, discourses, and practices that forge and frame Canadian identity. They examine the way in which current multicultural policies continue to benefit the dominant groups and (further) harm minoritized […]
La Araucana (1569 – 2019), a special issue of Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos Published in three separate installments in 1569, 1578, and 1589, Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana, ranks as the most influential epic poem produced in Spain in the sixteenth century. The poem deals with Spanish endeavors in Chile but also addresses momentous […]
The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth […]
This book is an attempt to pay deliberate attention to some silences on issues of social, cultural, and political importance that have remained unattended in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Using an analytical framework developed by the French philosopher and cultural theorist Michel de Certeau, the author demonstrates how silences can actively shape the […]
Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It orchestrates relatable and intriguing topics, from sound-symbolism in rice cracker naming to meanings of […]
Poesía y canto popular: Su convergencia en el siglo XX. Uruguay, 1960-1985 [Poetry and Popular Song: Their Convergence in the Twentieth Century. The Case of Uruguay, 1960-1985] published "the work of Maria Figueredo on the resemantization of the poetic text when it is articulated with a musical structure, to integrate a new reality of language, that is, […]
Professor Shanna Lino has recently published a special edition of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos on the topic of "Tráfico y producción cultural: trazas de una globalización fragmentada" ("Trafficking and Cultural Production: Traces of a Fragmented Globalization" Vol. 38.1). This monographic issue, which Professor Lino co-edited with Dr. Luis Molina Lora (Ph.D. University of Ottawa), drew together […]
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served to construe a new Spanish-American elite of original explorers and conquistadors in […]
The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and Black Dog Publishing recently published a bilingual catalogue (Spanish/English) of the exhibit Imaginary Homelands (2012). The catalogue includes an essay by Emelie Chhangur, curator of the exhibit, and nine interviews that professor Emiro Martínez-Osorio conducted with the group of Colombian artists who participated in the show. Two […]