MACLAS
Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies

MACLAS Latin American Essays
Volume XV (March 2001)

Selected Papers Presented at the 22nd Annual Conference
Of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies

American University
Howard University
March 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Preface, Acknowledgements & Submission Guidelines
2. Politics  

John Stolle-McAllister

Social Movements and Hybrid Cultural Formations: Tepoztlán's "No al Golf" (Street Award Essay)

Xavier Utset

"Creating Citizens": The Birth and Growth ofThe Cuban Internal Pro-Democracy Movement Movement

3. Anthropology  

Kasey Qynn Dolin

Words, Sounds and Power in Jamaican Rastafari

Kasey Qynn Dolin

Yoruban's Religious Survival in Brazilian Condomblé
Eva Rocha (Turner)

Healing the Rupture: A Jungian Perspective in African Religion/Mythology

4. Economics  

Eufronio R. Carreño

Latin America's 1980s and Asia's 1990s Debt Crisis: A Comparison

5. History
 
Beatriz Figallo
David Sheinin
Nuclear Politcis in Cold War Argentina
Alvaro Kaempfer

Nación, colonialismo y modernidad en la Declaración de Independencia del Perú (1821)

6. Language and Literature
 

Elizabeth Espadas

Hija de las Américas: Latin American Themes in A Daughter's Geography and Liliane

Consuelo Hernández

Rescatando a las poetas hondureñas: locura y lucidez en Juana Pavón, Sara Salazar Meléndez, Aída Ondina Sabonge Gutiérrez y María Eugenia Ramos

Leona Martin

From Guayaquil to Quito: Three Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives

Amelia Mondragón

Concepto y metáfora en un poema de José Emilio Pacheco

María C. Riegger

Literary Excursion into the Discomfort Zone: A Study of the Adaptation from Textual to Visual Representation in Gambaro's El desatino

Aleida A. Rodríguez

Las dos Venecias: De Puerto Rico a Italia

7. Pedagogy
 

Jack Child

Teaching Latin American Studies with Sarah Luckam Blackboard CourseInfo Web Software

8. Book Review: Whitaker Prize Selection  

Judy B. McInnis

Charles D. Ameringer. The Cuban Democratic Experience: The Auténtico Years, 1944-1952. Gainesville: UP of Floriday, 2000. 230pp.

 

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ISSN: 1525-125X

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