Exposes the reader to all sorts of texts (newspaper articles, testimonies, art, interviews, films, songs and web activities) and gives them the opportunity to examine the diversity and complexity of the Hispanic world and the richness of its culture. This is a content-based collection of literary works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women. Each chapter includes two literary selections that show different sides of the topic under exploration. Designed for advanced Spanish literary exploration.
- Wide variety of texts
- Exposes students to all sorts of texts ( newspaper articles, testimonies, art, interviews, films, songs and web activities ) and gives them the opportunity to examine the diversity and complexity of the Hispanic world and the richness of its culture.
- High-interest, contemporary issues
- Provides topics that deal either with contemporary issues that challenge today’s society–immigration, minority groups, ecology–or human experience such as procreation or the construction of a gendered identity.
- Strong pedagogical apparatus
- Encourages students to go beyond a superficial reading and compare and contrast inferences from the students’ own values and points of view with those of the various authors.
- In-depth literary analysis
- Advances student inquiry of literary strategies, structures, themes, and characters through in-depth activities.
- Wide variety of texts
- Exposes students to all sorts of texts ( newspaper articles, testimonies, art, interviews, films, songs and web activities ) and gives them the opportunity to examine the diversity and complexity of the Hispanic world and the richness of its culture.
- High-interest, contemporary issues
- Provides topics that deal either with contemporary issues that challenge today’s society–immigration, minority groups, ecology–or human experience such as procreation or the construction of a gendered identity.
- Strong pedagogical apparatus
- Encourages students to go beyond a superficial reading and compare and contrast inferences from the students’ own values and points of view with those of the various authors.
- In-depth literary analysis
- Advances student inquiry of literary strategies, structures, themes, and characters through in-depth activities.
