Faculty Books
Sonido y sentido
Jorge Guitart
Georgetown University Press, 2004
322 pages, Paperback with audio CD
"Sonido y sentido lifts the learning of Spanish pronunciation for American English-speaking students to a new level, with support of an accompanying CD. Written in Spanish by a native speaker who is a leading figure in the field of Spanish phonology, this introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology will improve both the pronunciation and understanding of spoken Spanish by demonstrating the specific ways in which the sound pattern of Spanish differs from English."
-Georgetown University Press
La Violence à l'oeuvre
Julie Hyland, Larbi Touaf, Soumia Boutkhil, with Gérard Bucher
Cahiers du CÉLAT, UQÀM, 2002.
146 pages, Paper ISBN 2-920576-68-2
An edited selection of papers presented at the French Graduate Students international colloquium on "La Violence dans la littérature francophone."
"The studies included in this volume all assume the principle that violence, conscious and deliberate, is a fundamental characteristic of human societies. Because it is mediated by language, deadly violence, sometimes completely explicit, sometimes insidious, is therefore distinct from animal aggression and natural disasters. If violence is fundamental to human relations, it appears to us nevertheless as a phenomenon outside of nature, in other words inscribed in social discourses and their interpretation."
-François Paré, preface
Le Testament poétique
Gérard Bucher
Editions Belin, Paris, 1994
Paper ISBN 2-7011-1705-4
"Le Testament poétique takes up and develops an hypothesis formulated in Bucher's earlier La Vision et l'énigme (Editions du Cerf, 1989). Starting from that hypothesis [...], Bucher in this work thinks through the primitive ritualization of death as the meaning of the symbolic, that is as the emergence of the unity of meaning and the sacred."
-Editions Belin
L'Imagination de l'origine
Gérard Bucher
L'Harmattan, 2000
Paper ISBN 2-7384-8837-4
An effective and demythologized approach to the question of origin with implications for contemporary concepts of anthropology and philosophy.
Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean
José F. Buscaglia-Salgado
University of Minnesota Press, June 2003.
336 pages, Paper ISBN 0-8166-3574-9, Cloth ISBN 0-8166-3573-0
"This ambitious book brings to light the story of what José F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulataje -- the ways Caribbean aesthetics offer the possibility of the ultimate erasure of racial difference. Undoing Empire gives a broad panorama stretching from the complex politics of medieval Iberian societies to the beginning of direct U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean at the end of the nineteenth century."
-U of Minnesota Press
How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity
William Egginton
SUNY Press, 2002
208 pages, Paper ISBN: 0-7914-5546-7, Cloth ISBN 0-7914-5545-9
"What is special, distinct, modern about modernity? In How the World Became a Stage, William Egginton argues that the experience of modernity is fundamentally spatial rather than subjective and proposes replacing the vocabulary of subjectivity with the concepts of presence and theatricality. [...] He recounts how the space in which the world is disclosed changed from the full, magically charged space of presence to the empty, fungible, and theatrical space of the stage."
-SUNY Press
Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation
Lisa Block de Behar, translated and with an introduction by William Egginton
SUNY Press, 2002
206 pages, Cloth ISBN 0-7914-5555-6, Paper ISBN 0-7914-5556-4
"Barthes once wrote that the only way to read a work of passion is with another work of passion. What was true for Barthes is equally true for Lisa Block de Behar, whose three or more decades of scholarly activity have produced an imposing body of scholarship on the work of Jorge Luis Borges, but more importantly and more urgently have resulted in the invention of a new way of thinking about the activity of reading and the nature of meaning itself."
-From the introduction by William Egginton
El Caso gramatical en el español en la teoría de los roles semánticos
Jorge Guitart
Editorial Runasimi, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima, Perú, 1998
104 pages, Paperback
"The definition of semantic roles given here increases our understanding of the semantic nature of certain realities, for example how the notions of change and movement can be unified."
-From the foreword by Gustavo SolÃs Fonseca, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
Identity, Community, and Pluralism in American Life
William C. Fischer, David A. Gerber, Jorge M. Guitart, Maxine S. Seller
Oxford University Press, 1997
Cloth ISBN 0195094700
As one of four co-editors of this anthology of readings on American Pluralism., which grew out of the editors' involvement with the American Pluralism course at this university, Guitart wrote the introductions to the chapters on affirmative action, the debate on immigration, and the question of a national language, as well as introductions to all the readings on those chapters.
Alberto Savinio: lo psichismo delle forme
Edizione Cadmo
Under Construction: The Body In Spanish Novels
Elizabeth A. Scarlett
University of Virginia Press, 1994
256 pages, Cloth ISBN 0813915325
"Our bodies constitute the most tangible link between who we are and what we experience in the world; for this reason a large corpus of literary and cultural studies has turned to the human body as a point of reference in the last few years. [...] Using modern feminist and narratological tools of analysis, Scarlett offers illuminating insights into the terms of embodiment [...] and traces a history of the mind-body connection in Spanish novels from the late nineteenth century to the present."
-U of Virginia Press. Selected for CHOICE's "Outstanding Academic Books of 1995."
Convergencias Hispanicas: Selected Proceedings And Other Essays On Spanish And Latin American Literature, Film, And Linguistics
Edited by Elizabeth Scarlett and Howard B. Wescott
Juan de la Cuesta, 2001
314 pages, Paper ISBN 1-58871-008-4
Women Writing Women: An Anthology of Spanish-American Theatre of the 1980s
Edited by Teresa Cajiao Salas and Margarita Vargas
SUNY Press, 1997
Paper ISBN 0-7914-3206-8, Cloth ISBN 0-7914-3205-X
Women Writing Women is an anthology of eight translated plays by Spanish-American women playwrights of national and international acclaim. The feminist perspective of these writers offers a fresh view of quintessential issues such as social injustice, identity, the role of art, and the power of writing. The playwrights include Isidora Aguirre (Chile), Sabina Berman (Mexico), Myrna Casas (Puerto Rico), Teresa Marichal (Puerto Rico), Diana Raznovich (Argentina), Mariela Romero (Venezuela), Beatriz Seibel (Argentina), and Maruxa Vilalta (Mexico).
Latin American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories
Edited by Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas
Indiana University Press, 1998
320 pages, Paper ISBN 0253212405
Latin American Women Dramatists is a collection of essays in which contributors discuss the works of fifteen playwrights and delineate their aritistic lives. There are four general topics covered in the text: "Theatrical Self-Consciousness," "Politics," "History," and "Feminisms." Some of the specific issues raised in the essays are the problems inherent in writing under politically repressive governments, gender difference, the use of the stage to create social change, the role of humor, and the production of a cultural politics of resistance. Latin American countries represented include Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.