Early Modern Spain Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms through the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Over the course of the next centuries, Spain rose to European dominance, presided over the worlds largest empire, and saw…
Tu Boca En Los Cielos This book enters the world of the Jews of Northern Morocco through the window of Haketia (Judeo-Spanish). Haketia-speaking Jews lived in Morocco for nearly 500 years, from the year of the expulsion from Spain in 1492 until the 1970s, by which time most had emigrated to a wide array of…
El Idioma Español Y La Cultura Hispana EL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL Y LA CULTURA HISPANA: A GUIDE TO THE SPANISH LANGUAGE AND THE HISPANIC WORLD is an outstanding resource for any language learner. Authentic language is beautifully presented in context along with wonderfully-articulated and rich cultural content. Any trip through the Spanish-speaking world would be complemented by the…
Apology To Apostrophe Who writes I ? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation…
