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.
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.
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