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And since by themselves, or by their representatives, or by means of letters, they are able to defend themselves, they cannot avoid doing so by saying that they did not know the laws, and if they should offer such a reason as this it will not avail them. A tyrant means a lord who has obtained possession of some kingdom, or country, by force, fraud, or treason. Persons of this kind are of such a character, that after they have obtained thorough control of a country, they prefer to act for their own advantage, although it may result I injury to the country, rather than for the common benefit of all, because they always live in the expectation of losing it.

And in order that they might execute their desires more freely, the ancient sages declared that they always employed their power against the people, by means of three kinds of artifice. The first is, that persons of this kind always exert themselves to keep those under their dominion ignorant and timid, because, when they are such, they will not dare to rise up against them, oppose their wishes. The second is, that they promote disaffection among the people so that they do not trust one another, for while they live in such discord, they will not dare to utter any speech against the king, fearing that neither faith nor secrecy will be kept among them.

The third is, that they endeavor to make them poor, and employ them in such great labors that they can never finish them; for the reason that they may always have so much to consider in their own misfortunes, that they will never have the heart to think of committing any act against the government of the tyrant.

In addition to all this, tyrants always endeavor to despoil the powerful, and put the wise to death; always forbid brotherhoods and associations in their dominions; and constantly manage to be informed of what is said or done in the country, trusting more for counsel and protection to strangers, because they serve them voluntarily, than to natives who have to perform service through compulsion.

We also decree that although a person may have obtained the sovereignty of a kingdom by any of the methods mentioned in the preceding law, if he should make a bad use of his power in any of the ways above stated in this law, people can denounce him as a tyrant, and his government which was lawful, will become wrongful; as Aristotle stated in the book which treats of the government of cities and kingdoms.

What the Word People Means Some persons think that by the word people is meant the common people, as, for instance, mechanics, and laborers, but this is not the case, for, in ancient times, in Babylon, Troy, and Rome, which were famous cities, all these matters were regulated in a reasonable way, and a suitable name was given to everything. There the union of all men together, those of superior, middle, and inferior rank, was called the people; for all are necessary, and none can be excepted, for the reason that they are obliged to assist one another in order to live properly and be protected and supported.

Knights Should Possess Four Chief Virtues Excellent qualities which men naturally possess are called good habits, and are styled virtutes in Latin, and of these four are superior, namely, prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice. Although every man should desire to be good, and endeavor to acquire these virtues, not only the preachers whom we have mentioned, but others as well, whose duty it is to maintain the country by means of their labors and exertions; among them, there are none, to whom this is more becoming than to the defenders, for the reason that it is their duty to protect the Church, the monarchs, and all others.

Prudence will enable them to do this to advantage, and without injury; fortitude will cause them to be firm and not irresolute in what they do; moderation will induce them to perform their duties as they should, and not be guilty of excess; and justice will enable them to act according to the right. For this reason the ancients, by way of commemoration, caused arms of four kinds to be made for the knights; first, such as they clothe themselves with, and wear; second, those with which they gird themselves; third, those which they bear in front of them; fourth, those with which they strike; And although these are of many forms, nevertheless they are designed for two purposes; blows, which are called weapons.

And because the defenders did not ordinarily possess these weapons, and, even though they had them, might not always be able to carry them, the ancients deemed it proper to contrive one which should be emblematic of all these, and this is the sword. For, as the arms which men put on for the purpose of defense indicate prudence, which is a virtue that protects them from all evils which can come upon them through their own fault; so the hilt of a sword which a man holds in his grasp, is also suggestive of this, for as long as he holds it, he has the power to raise or lower it, or strike with it, or abandon it; and as the arms which a man carries before him to defend himself, denote fortitude, which is a virtue that renders him steadfast in the midst of dangers which may come upon him, so all the fortitude of the sword lies in its pommel, for to it is attached the hilt, the guard, and the blade.

And, as the armor which a man girds on is intermediate between that with which he is clothed and the weapons with which he strikes, and thus resembles the virtue of moderation between things which are excessive and those which are less than they should be; with great similarity to this, the guard is placed between the handle and the blade of the sword.

Moreover, as the arms which a man holds ready to strike with, whenever it is advisable, symbolize justice, which includes right and equality; so the blade of the sword which is straight and sharp, and cuts the same with both edges, represents the same thing. On account of all this the ancients ordained that noble defenders should always wear the sword, and that by means of it and with no other weapon they should receive the honor of knighthood, in order that they might always be reminded of these four virtues which they should possess: What Duties a Squire Should Perform Before He Receives the Order of Knighthood Cleanliness makes all things that are visible look well, just as elegance makes them appear graceful, each in its own way.

Hence the ancients deemed it proper that knights should be created without any suspicion of blemish. For, as they should practice purity among themselves and it ought to be manifested in their good qualities and their habits, as we have stated; they should also display it externally in their clothing, and in the arms which they bear. For although their calling is rude and bloody, as it is concerned with wounds and death; nevertheless, their minds should not refuse to be naturally pleased with things which are beautiful and elegant, and especially when they wear them; for the reason that, on the one hand, they confer joy and comfort upon them, and, on the other, it induces them to perform intrepid deeds of arms, since that they are aware that they will be better known on this account, and that all persons will pay more attention to what they do; therefore cleanliness and elegance are not impediments to the bravery and ferocity which they ought to possess.

Moreover, as we stated above, their external appearance indicates the condition of their minds, and, for this reason, the ancients directed that a squire should be of noble descent; that the day before he received the order of knighthood he should keep watch; and that on the day when he received it, in the afternoon, the squires should bathe him and wash his head along with his hands, and place him in the best bed that they could find, and then it was the duty of the knights to dress him in the best garments they had. After they had cleansed his body in this way they were required to do as much for his soul by conduction him to the church, where he was obliged to endure hardship by watching and praying to God to pardon his sins, and guide him to act for the best in the order which he desired to receive, so that he could defend his religion, and do other things which were proper; and that he might protect and defend him from danger and adversity and whatever opposition he might encounter.

He should bear in mind that God has authority over all things, and can manifest it whoever He desires to do so, and that this is especially the case with regard to deeds of arms; for in his hand are life and death, the power to give and to take, and he can cause the weak to be strong and the strong to be weak.

When he has made this prayer, he must remain upon his knees as long as he can endure it, while all the others stand; for the vigils of knights were not instituted as games, or for any other purpose but that they and the others present may ask God to preserve, direct, and assist them, as men who are entering upon a career of death. In What Place a School Should be Established, and How the Masters and Pupils Should Be Secure The town where it is desired to establish a school should have pure air and beautiful environs, in order that the masters who teach the sciences and the pupils who learn them, may live there in health, and rest and take pleasure in the evening, when their eyes have become weary with study.

It should, moreover, be well provided with bread and wine, and good lodging houses, in which the pupils can live and pass their time without great expense. We declare that the citizens of the town where a school is situated, should carefully protect its masters and pupils and everything belonging to them, and that no one should arrest or hinder the messengers who come to them from their homes, on account of any debt that their parents, or any others of the countries where they are natives, may owe.

We also declare that no wrong, dishonor, or violence should be shown them on account of any enmity or grudge which any man may entertain against the said pupils or their messengers, and all their property, be secure and free from molestation, while going to the schools, while there, and while returning to their homes, and we grant them this security in all the towns of our dominions. Whoever violates this law, by taking their property by force, or by robbing them, shall pay four times the value of what is stolen, and where anyone wounds, dishonors, or kills any of them, he shall be punished without mercy, as a man who violates our truce, and the security which we have granted.

And if the judges before whom a complaint of this kind is made are negligent in rendering the parties justice, as above stated, they shall pay the amount aforesaid out of their own property, and be dismissed from office as infamous persons. Where they act in a malicious manner toward the pupils, refusing to punish those who dishonored, wounded, or killed them, then the officers who acted in this manner shall themselves be punished according to the will of the king. Parents Cannot Betroth Their Daughters When They Are Not Present and Do Not Give Their Consent Where one man promises another to take one of his daughters as his wife, such words do not constitute a betrothal, because none of the daughters was present, and does not specifically consent to take the party as her husband, any more than he does her as his wife, for just as matrimony cannot be contracted by one person alone, neither can a betrothal be so contracted.

In matrimony it is necessary for those who desire to contract it to be present and each one must accept the other, or there must be two others who do this by their direction, and if a father swears or promises a party who has sworn to him that he would take that one of his daughters which he would give him as his wife, and afterwards none of his daughters gives her consent, or is willing to accept the party to whom the father had sworn, he cannot, for this reason, compel any of them absolutely to do this, although he has a right to reprove them, in order to obtain their permission.

If, however, the party to whom the father wishes to marry one of his daughters was a desirable person, and the daughter would do well to marry him, although he cannot compel her to perform what he promised, he can disinherit her, for the reason that she was not grateful to her father for the benefit he desired to confer upon her, and caused him sorrow through her disobedience. And this is understood if thereafter she should marry another against her father's will or commit carnal sin.

A husband should place his wife in possession of the gift which he makes her, and the wife should do the same thing with her husband with regard to the dowry she gives; and, although each of them places the other in possession of their respective gifts, nevertheless, the husband should be the master and have control of all the property aforesaid, and be entitled to collect the income of the whole, including what the wife gives, as well as that given by him, for the purpose of supporting himself, his wife, and his family, and to preserve, defend, and protect the marriage well and faithfully.

Still, the husband has no right to sell, dispose of, or waste the donation which he gave his wife, or the dowry which he receives from her, as long as the marriage lasts, except where such a gift has been appraised. Networks of image and motif surround novelistic elements with a metonymic force, leading to dialectical signifiers Tropes are grounded in physical and chemical processes, nature or the economic phenomena of the times Another analysis of the same novel by Chad C.

Wright focuses on bodily metaphors and the symbolism of dismemberment, malfunctioning, and disarticulation Round's study of Misericordia offers some original ideas regarding the relation of this final work of the Contemporary Novels series to both Realism and Spiritualism. His final conclusion is, however, questionable.

Eamonn Rodgers examines the writer's political thought as expressed in essays and newspapers articles in the three principal periods of his life The constants of his thought were his disappointment with the politics of the Restoration and his rejection of caciquismo A weakness of this approach is that it only considers the political thought expressed in the writer's newspaper articles , ignoring the ideas present in his fictional works.

Galdosistas of varied interests will find many critical insights in this commemorative collection. Drawing numerous parallels between Argentina and Nazi Germany, Bouvard spotlights the prevalent antisemitism in Argentina. The atmosphere of terror and fear in Argentina recalls the Nazi policy of Night and Fog -people disappear without a trace, there is an absence of law and due process.

In spite of eyewitness accounts of abductions, the government denies all knowledge of political disappearances. Opposing this maelstrom of madness is a group of poor, uneducated women, searching for their missing children. At first apolitical and unsophisticated, they learn to take matters into their own hands.

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Bravely, they stage weekly marches in the symbolic Plaza de Mayo, locus of government and the site of proclaimed Argentine independence from Spain. Advocating human rights and justice, these Mothers seize political power for themselves and all Argentines, demanding the release of all disappeared, punishment for the guilty parties, and the elimination of military control.

Maternal solidarity puts a feminine stamp on the protest movement. Through their courageous response to tyranny, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo evolve into heroes. Bouvard's unflinching and well-researched portrayal includes an introduction, ten chapters, an extensive bibliography based on newspaper articles and interviews with the Mothers, and an index.

The style is simple and direct, making the work eminently readable. In each chapter, she juxtaposes intimate poems with a straightforward narration of factual information, reflecting both emotional and rational qualities of the Mothers. Eloquent black-and-white photographs of the Mothers' vigils reveal simple women who cry out in anger and sadness. The combination of fury and courage in their faces is unforgettable as they celebrate Mother's Day [] holding a single rose in their arms. Over the past ten years there have been considerable efforts to recover the works of colonial women writers from the archives of convents in Spanish America.

The result of these investigations has not quite yielded the anticipated information but has instead offered an equally fascinating and imaginative portrait of women in colonial society and a view of historical circumstances in the viceroyalties through the study of their letters, journals and notebooks. An excellent example of this scholarly approach, in which a woman writer has been restored to literary history, is Kathleen Myers' critical edition, Word from New Spain: Even her contemporaries recognized her extraordinary religious devotion and her talent for mystical expression.

Over the course of three decades she wrote and rewrote some twelve volumes of her visions and ecstasies, which include unions with Christ, interventions of the Virgin, and encounters with the devil, and she seemed to be a model nun, the perfecta religiosa so celebrated by the Church. In she was chosen to be a founder of the Augustinian Recollect convent in Oaxaca, and a petition for her beatification was sent to Pope Benedict XIII shortly after her death.

She summarizes her findings clearly in the introduction of Word from New Spain and offers insights into the expression of the baroque in Mexico and the influence of the Counter-Reformation there. The introduction to Word from New Spain provides the key to interpreting the carefully selected passages of this critical edition. Confessional autobiography is therefore placed within the colonial Spanish American context as Myers defines the vida and notes its importance for religious women writers in the New World.

References to it throughout the remainder of the series elaborate and clarify her family situation and describe the patriarchal structure of the household, the disruption of power caused by the death of her father, the influence her mother had on her life, her relationship with the Indian servants, and the difficulties she endured with her siblings. In Word from New Spain Myers has developed a cohesive and comprehensive pattern for investigation into the life and works of religious women writers of the colonial period.

The fine introduction, accuracy of the textual transcription, a process described in detail by the editor, and the accompanying bibliographical essay on early autobiographical writings in Spanish American convents assure the success of this volume and make it a valuable tool for both students and scholars of colonial studies that focus on women in the New World. Lindstrom focuses on the feminine qualities attributed to Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo's writing, despite shifts from the more frivolous journalistic pieces to the proto-feminist stance of the novel.

After alluding to the impact of serialization -the chapters appeared simultaneously in Spanish and French-language literary magazines- Lindstrom dwells on a common misperception, the slippage between author and protagonist, which often arises from the choice of a first person narrator. The discrepancies among the numerous editions published over seventy years lead the translator to ponder over the question of authenticity in light of the missing original manuscript Acker xv-xvi.

Among other factors, the continued success of Iphigenia may be due to the generic conventions of the novel of development. Given the ambiguity of the protagonist's ironic stance, however, de la Parra's [failed? This hermeneutic approach may focus on the depiction of Venezuelan mores, race relations, social stratification, etc.

It may also revolve around the question of feminism, particularly in regard to the adaptation of European concepts in Spanish America. The ongoing debate certainly proves the power of de la Parra's ambiguously ironic narrator. Bertie Acker took on the formidable challenge of recreating periodization, characterization and local color. The fact that we get a feel for de la Parra's style is a measure of the translator's success. Bertie Acker's fine translation is timely in that it significantly broadens de la Parra's audience, allowing for renewed interest in the debates that Iphigenia continues to spawn.

She literally opens-up with the initial pages by sharing her personal dream about monks stealing a mural with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Oneiric images invoke the sensation of some powerful institution -the Catholic Church perhaps- who wants to appropriate Guadalupe's icon, and yet, this becomes impossible, because there is certain truth that Our Lady of Guadalupe incarnates and that cannot be suppressed.

On the contrary, she is the maternal divine figure who empowers and nourishes those who believe in her. The alleged appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe is looked at through the prism of race, class, and gender oppression. She offers both Christian and Nahuatl interpretations in order to facilitate the understanding of the importance of the event for their future, transculturated descendants. Importantly, the influence of Anglo-American culture over mestizos is never underestimated nor neglected.

In those terms, it seems counterproductive to choose such a small number of participants, especially considering the fairly simple and short questionnaire. The Mexican-American women selected for the study had to be young years of age , married mothers for whom Our Lady of Guadalupe was part of their religious experience. They also had to speak English. Each of the participants in the study filled out a demographic questionnaire which established their economic, social, and cultural status.

The results of this section show that none of the participants have higher education, and that the [] average education was Only one of the participants identified Our Lady of Guadalupe as a priority in comparison to other religious beliefs, such as Christ and God. Participants also wrote a personal reflection inspired by observing the provided image of Guadalupe. Most of the group identified her as a mother type or someone to be prayed to, but significantly only four women mentioned the strength that the image of Guadalupe offers them.

Later, the women were given a list of adjectives from which they were supposed to choose those that, according to their opinion, described Our Lady of Guadalupe. The two highest rated qualities show that they see her as the ideal self and as the nurturing parent. The final part of the research is related to the taped interviews in which the women explained their written accounts.

A long pastoral experience of the author along with her study of psychology complement the small number of the participants in the group. This study definitely deepens our knowledge of acculturation of Mexican-American women. In Entre lo uno y lo diverso: In his native Portugal, however, his paintings, illustrations, and sculpture have always taken precedence over his writing.

Lip service is often paid to his handful of modernist titles, but adequate critical study and interpretation has gone largely elsewhere. Ellen Sapega's studies are a welcome step in the attempt to establish the basis for a more equitable reckoning. A Engomadeira and K4 O Quadrado Azul are most intelligibly read within the intelligence offered by the sensacionista ideas formulated by Almada's coeval and fellow-collaborator in Orpheu and Portugal Futurista, Fernando Pessoa. Put another way, these parables demonstrate the strong Almadean idea, if they do so obliquely, that modern man must or had best recognize the sanity of pre-logical apprehension of things.

Nome de Guerra is approached as a culminating retrospective summary of Almada's major fictional interests in the ten or so years of his significant literary activity , one which results in a new but constructive literary impasse marking the end of the author's career as fiction writer.

This nuanced, attentive reading of Almada's always engaging fiction in the context of the modernism he did so much to shape and define should attract further serious attention to the writings of an artist-writer whose place in literature must be defined both within twentieth-century Portuguese culture and well beyond that culture. Whether he had talent not genius , as the puckish Fernando Pessoa once said, Almada must be given his due as one of the great multiple artists of the modern era. Latino Theatre, is important because it clarifies the actual significance of those influences, drama troupes and dramatists which took part in the formation of the modern theatre in Mexico.

During the course of his study, Schmidhuber convincingly dispels misconceptions that were perpetrated by some of the key players in this drama of drama and that, for more than half a century, have concealed the reality of this theatre's personal and group dynamics. As the author aptly proves, the sixteen years from to are the formative years of the nation's modern theatre: The study, which is essentially chronological in its development, discusses the three principal dramatic currents prominent in Mexico during the s and s: One of the more useful results of the analysis, itself a product of the author's years of study of the plays written during this period, is his conclusion that, throughout its development, there are three dramatic constants that changed only as experimentation brought new ways of making theatre: The reader should not be tempted to make light of the foregoing because only one who has actually read the works written and produced in Mexico during this time could justify this claim, and only after having verified that all other dramatic elements are useless for a consistent, meaningful analysis of the evolution of this drama during the years in question.

From the beginning of his work, Schmidhuber resorts to a clever formulaic representation of these constants in order to aid the reader's comprehension of the changes in the plays under discussion. Some of the most revealing portions of the study are documents and commentary that prove that the Comedia Mexicana and the Grupo de los Siete Autores essentially worked for the same end -that, despite disparaging criticism of the former group by dramatists such as Villaurrutia, Novo and C.

Gorostiza, there was little difference in the number and types of works these two groups actually staged. The latter and its significance also have not been mentioned in previous studies of this theatre. After pages devoted to individuals and groups, the author devotes the remaining fifty-eight pages of text to Usigli, his work in general, and in particular to El gesticulador in which previously existing influences and traditions meld into the work that, more than any other, is the pioneer drama of the modern Mexican theatre.

The reader's own conclusion will surely be favorable. Schmidhuber's study is well written, to the point, and, undeniably, a unique contribution.

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A real artist in any field of endeavor makes the performance of a task appear easy. Sub-Versions of History in Mexican Fiction. Although she has chosen to study some of the most intellectually demanding works of contemporary Mexican fiction, she has managed to make their explication appear effortless. Thoughtfully conceived [] and artfully executed, Taylor's book explores the nebulous boundary between story and history, offering many valuable in sights to the readers of these complex novels. Taylor examines four works: Besides the chapters devoted to these works, the book includes an introduction and conclusion, a bibliographical appendix a list of works on Tlatelolco , a list of works cited, and an index.

The extensive notes on each chapter reflect one of the strengths of her study: This is not just literary name-dropping; the comments of these diverse authors prove to be instructive in the context of Taylor's observations. Another plus is that Taylor's language is refreshingly free of the complicated jargon which travels as excess baggage in much of contemporary criticism.

When she does create a new term periosia, her name for the hybridization of poetry and journalism , the neologism seems justified, not gratuitous. In her introductory chapter, Taylor finds the model for Latin American testimonial narrative in the chronicles of the Conquest, which were literary creations as well as historical accounts. In La noche de Tlatelolco, Poniatowska performs these multiple functions by applying novelistic structure to a historical event, the Tlatelolco massacre of Skillfully weaving together fragments of oral and written documents the students' chants, newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, placards, poems, etc.

Taylor's explanation of the way in which Poniatowska exercises the prerogatives of the fiction writer in the selection and use of raw testimony is the high point of her excellent analysis. Testimonios sobre Mariana is , by contrast, an inversion of La noche de Tlatelolco. It is not a testimonial novel, but rather a novel in the form of three testimonies given by friends and lovers of the mysterious Mariana. As Taylor explains, the three narratives should, like the sides of a triangle, define a space where the true Mariana exists, but this space ultimately remains empty, for the reader remains unable to create a coherent image of the character.

Through the textual juxtaposition of events belonging to different eras, Pacheco alerts the reader to historical parallels and the potential for these incidents to recur in the present. Of the four works under consideration, Campbell's Pretexta most directly confronts the role of the writer as historian, since the novel's protagonist has been hired by the government to fabricate a phony biography of an outspoken journalist. By linguistically deconstructing the word pretexta, Taylor elucidates the metaphor of the text as a weaving in which the protagonist-writer combines various narrative threads to produce an artistic whole.

Like the authors whose works she so successfully illuminates, Taylor has artfully woven threads from many sources to create her own tapestry of words, an important contribution to the criticism of these very complex works. In Vargas Llosa was the leading candidate for the Peruvian presidency, but he lost to Alberto Fujimori. His memoir, El pez en el agua , consists of twenty chapters, the even-numbered ones chronicling the events of the campaign and the odd-numbered ones narrating the author's [] life from , the year of his birth, to , when he left his native land.

Although Vargas Llosa devotes more pages to the political campaign than to his personal life, many of his readers will be intrigued by bits of information they may not have known previously. Until he was ten, the author had been led to believe that his father was dead. Then, one day, his mother announced that he was going to meet his father that very afternoon.

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The shock was intensified when the heretofore pampered child came face to face with the rigidly authoritarian figure that would change his life forever. Much has been written about Vargas Llosa's Freudian rejection of his father, but what we read here elicits our sympathy for him and makes us question his mother's judgment in returning to the man she had divorced. A positive result of the relationship, however, is Vargas Llosa's choice of a literary career, a choice made in part because he knew it would displease his father. Thus, although Vargas Llosa did indeed advocate change -a free-market economy, privatization of nationally owned industries, fundamental reforms in education, and reduced government spending- he was viewed by many Peruvians as a traditional, right-wing, upper-class politician.

Still, Vargas Llosa was well ahead of his opponents until approximately ten days before the election April 8, , when Fujimori began to make astonishing gains. Billing himself as an outsider Jimmy Carter comes to mind , this dark horse immediately captured the imagination of voters, especially among the lower classes. When on election day it became evident that the necessary segunda vuelta would produce a Fujimori victory the leftist parties would undoubtedly join together , Vargas Llosa offered to cede the election to his opponent in the hope that the latter would adopt some of his economic policies.

During the weeks before the second election June 10 , negative information surfaced on Fujimori his authoritarian behavior as president of an agrarian university and the ludicrously low taxes he had negotiated on his extensive real estate holdings. But the vicious accusations leveled against Vargas Llosa go well beyond the pale.

Indeed, one might conjecture that the calumny he was subjected to explains his decision, shortly after the election, to become a Spanish citizen. Admirers of Vargas will, after reading this memoir, admire him even more. Brilliant, scrupulously honest and forthright, and for this reviewer unquestionably the best qualified candidate, he may have lost because he was too frank with the electors, telling them exactly what was needed to solve the problems plaguing Peru.

In his bid for a job he never really wanted, he threw himself heart and soul, often at great personal risk, into the campaign, studying all the issues, visiting every corner of Peru, and traveling to Asia to learn from the economic successes of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. Since the election, Fujimori has adopted some of Vargas Llosa's economic policies, but he has weakened the democratic process by assuming dictatorial powers.

The Peruvian electorate erred and is now suffering the consequences. Clearly and elegantly written, El pez en el agua masterfully describes the violence, the political corruption, and the rampant hypocrisy of journalists and intellectuals polluting the moral atmosphere of a nation in peril. It is one of the most fascinating and informative nonfiction books published in the Hispanic world in recent years.

Se olvida con frecuencia que no es el asunto de la correspondencia sino el elemento humano y la personalidad de los corresponsales lo que muchas veces confiere valor primario a las misivas. El otro corresponsal, Genaro Estrada , no es tan renombrado. Su actividad literaria, a pesar de que en una de sus cartas confiesa -insinceramente, a todas luces-: Ya hemos categorizado su naturaleza: Conversaciones Creadoras is a conversation textbook aimed at intermediate level Spanish-speakers that emphasizes increasing language productivity in Spanish through active participation in simulated conversation situations within specific cultural contexts.

Each of the twelve chapters consists of nine parts: Each creative conversation takes place in a different country allowing for exposure to differences in culture and language. Nevertheless, the conversaciones are generally entertaining and succeed in engendering a functional conflict that can be parlayed into a dialogue by students e.

Some flexibility from the tedium of performing twelve dramas is offered by the authors as a change of pace in their thorough chapter-by-chapter teaching suggestions sections, such as having students report how they would conclude the drama.

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Another positive attribute of the text is the introduction to each chapter with two short cultural readings, one on an aspect of Latin America and the other on Spain. These informative, although predictably generalized especially for Latin America , author-generated readings serve to introduce the chapter's topic, e. Additional questions, perhaps as a pre-reading exercise, within the student text might have served well to stimulate students' thought toward further discussion of the topic.

Black and white reproductions of ads appear sporadically in the text, always linked to the theme or function of the chapter, but with no exercises or suggestions for using them. Perhaps inspired by the trend in total production testing such as included in the ACTFL Oral Proficiency exams, a strong feature of the text is the inclusion of plentiful, imaginative situations for paired work in each chapter. Students select from four scenes, allowing for individual selection and the ability to avoid scenes containing sex-related roles which may not be possible for role-play due to a class make-up and roles with which some may not identify well such as pretending to be a child fearful of hospitals , or a conservative middle-aged physician Active vocabulary, presented in English translations, is limited to twenty-five items which are tested in a variety of challenging practices that include selection of antonyms, matching definitions, and crossword puzzles.

Answers to these and other exercises are occasionally ambiguous 32, , As per the goal of also seeking cultural competence, region-specific vocabulary is annotated although en seguida is tested as an antonym of luego whereas in much of Latin America it is a synonym. Although most vocabulary can be identified within the semantic field related to a chapter, the lack of a glossary in the text is strongly noted. Students are advised to bring a dictionary to class. The incorporation of a clear discussion of the authors' teaching philosophy, ideas for evaluation, and specific teaching suggestions is invaluable.

Personal expression is de-emphasize due to the focus on learning through simulated scenarios and there are few opportunities for narration or speaking in the past. Nevertheless, the plentiful and varied material offers a necessary flexibility for instructors to select activities that may appeal better to individual interests and knowledge. In conclusion, this text has much to offer with its emphasis on learner-created role-plays and activities that require students' imagination and creativity. This text, as advertised, focuses on the teaching of practical writing skills.

The twelve chapters are organized to take students from the level of sentence formation and paragraph writing chapters 1 through 4 to more complex writing tasks. Chapter 5 deals with the language of advertising to teach students how to create an effect, to motivate or to convince. The next three chapters are particularly well-organized. They provide a thorough analysis, with excellent, authentic examples of the process of writing invitations, personal notes and letters and business correspondence.

Chapters 9 and 10 focus on narrative and descriptive writing respectively. Chapter 11 teaches how to write summaries while the last chapter applies many of the writing techniques previously presented to the development of an expository essay. In addition, there is a very useful introductory chapter which provides excellent advice and practical exercises on how to use Spanish and bilingual dictionaries. At the end of the text the authors have provided five very functional appendices covering syllabification and diphthongs, accents, capitalization, and punctuation and, for the rare teacher of composition without one, there is a correction key.

An Instructor's Manual is available upon request. The only practical writing topic not covered is the preparation of a research paper with the attendant documentation according to the MLA or APA format. Each chapter is structured so as to demonstrate and teach a specific writing skill and is divided into the following sections: The chapter topics deal with practical situations and the vocabulary selection allows students to gain proficiency in writing about subjects they will need to address in real-life situations.

As, a composition text, the book is very complete. However, for second-year college courses combining grammar review and composition, it does not provide a complete review of grammar. While the authors do not pretend to include a complete review of grammar as a text component, the level of grammatical sophistication will determine the types of courses it may be used for.

For example, chapter 6 introduces the use of the conditional tense and imperfect subjunctive to soften requests but does not discuss their practical application to writing conditional sentences.

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The presentation of ser and estar does not include an explanation of the use of these verbs with past participles. Both of these grammatical structures are necessary to achieve a certain level of syntactic complexity in writing. This text is appropriate for advanced high school courses and may be adapted for use in second year college classes with a specific composition component.

The grammar explanations it provides for the subjunctive in the subordinate clause, the preterite-imperfect and other grammar issues are very good. It does not simply repeat the old prescriptive rules but provides thorough, linguistically accurate description of [] grammar function. The text is written in Spanish at a level an educated writer would use. It will certainly enable teachers to help students learn how to produce the kinds of writing they are likely to need in their everyday social and professional lives. Children's literature, at least in Spanish, has had belated recognition in Hispanic studies within the U.

The honor is intended for a U. Isabel Schon's latest book substantiates the current recognition of literature for this age group within the Hispanic area. This dictionary has approximately alphabetically arranged names of contemporary authors and illustrators from the Spanish-speaking world and the United States.

Compiled through questionnaires sent to all of the authors abstracted from various of Schon's bibliographies published between and , the entries include the following information: The editor accessed the information through an index to authors; a listing of authors by country provides another point of access. The book also serves as a primitive index to the writing of children's literature and its importance in some of the Latin American republics.

Spain overwhelms with the largest number of authors; Mexico and Argentina are second and third respectively; Costa Rica and Venezuela each have one author; Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador and Puerto Rico do not appear. There is no explanation for the omission. Probably no other American scholar is more appropriate for the task of compiling this reference book than Isabel Schon, director for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents at California State University, San Marcos.

An author of children's stories herself, she is also the compiler of at least ten books regarding Hispanic literature of this age group. The present biographical dictionary achieves importance as the only one of its kind in English. Schon has done pioneering work especially with the difficult and frustrating task of gathering information through questionnaires. A future edition might be honed to include some of the following: Such key works as the thirty reference books listed in Sheehy's Guide to Reference Books and its update alert the user to the structure of the world of children's literature.

Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources , listing four bibliographies for Brazil but none for Spanish America, verifies the underdeveloped nature of children's books in Spanish. Several small items might enhance the book. For example, what are the criteria for inclusion? Is one book sufficient to label a writer a children's author?

Perhaps an introductory essay regarding the history of this literature in Spanish America might orient the uninitiated. That the present text does not differentiate between writers and illustrators might reflect a reality of publishing where the two talents combine in one individual. Should the distinction be noted in the index or is this a differentiation of no importance? Surely no other form of writing puts author and illustrator in such a symbiotic relationship. Finally, should fiction and nonfiction be noted in separate categories? It seems that adults might have a preference here in selection.

The critical sources, at times noting a periodical but no dates, frustrate the search for more information on the writer under study. These suggestions could be incorporated into a second edition of this work. Schon makes us aware of a new field. It caters to a population of Hispanics in the U. Few languages so early in the learning sequence present the American learner with such a puzzle as does Spanish ser and estar. Just at the time that teachers wish to gently induct students into the language, the problem of ser and estar looms up, and must be dealt with in however simplified a way.

Later, in the learning sequence, ser and estar again and again return problematically. Many non-native teachers of Spanish are a little vague on the topic of ser and estar , and have never mastered the most subtle and idiomatic uses of the two verbs. Native-speaking teachers are often no better off, while they possess a large store of expressions and uses of ser and estar , they may suffer front an inability to reduce these to generalizations that can be captured by the American student. It is composed of eight chapters, the first four of which are grouped around the goal of understanding ser and estar , the remaining four being seen as helping to master the two verbs.

The authors correctly allude to the fact that often grammatical explanations of ser and estar are simply wrong as offered by teachers and textbooks, such as the common error of positing a distinction of permanence versus transitoriness between the two verbs. Incorrect invocation of the notion of permanence produces errors such as Juan es siempre ocupado where the siempre leads a student to opt for the supposedly permanent ser. In contrast the Serranos offer a dichotomy of state versus nature, where even a permanent condition such as death remains a state.

Put another way, the Serranos offer a dichotomy that they term whatness versus howness. The Spanish speaker often finds the English lack of a distinction in the copula to be ambiguous, e. Teachers might do well to point this out to our students. In parallel, it might be advisable to expose students to exercises which show that especially estar can be rendered in English by many more forms than just the copula -translations such as to look , to feel , to seem , to become, etc.

The likely market for this book will be that of teachers and perhaps some graduate students and trainee teachers. If this is so the book might have benefited from a little pruning. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Novelas y cuadros de la vida sur-americana Spanish Edition. Set up a giveaway. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Explore the Home Gift Guide.

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