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Decolonizing American Spanish = Descolonizando el español americano : Eurocentrism and foreignness in the imperial ecosystem /

"Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged, others are silenced with predictable ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Colección:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged, others are silenced with predictable racial and gendered results. Decolonizing American Spanish challenges not only the hegemony of Spain and its colonial pedagogies, but also the characterization of Spanish as a foreign language in the United States. By foregrounding Latin American cultures and local varieties of Spanish and reconceptualizing the foreign as domestic, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera works to create new conceptual maps, revise inherited ones, and institutionalize marginalized and silenced voices and their stories. Considering the University of Puerto Rico as a point of context, this book brings attention to how translingual solidarity and education, a commitment to social transformation, and the engagement of student voices in their own languages can reinvent colonized education"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 255 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780822988984
0822988984