{"title":"Absurdism: Aesthetic category in the story “Un grito” (1947) by Carlos Salazar Herrera","authors":"Kimberly Huertas-Arredondo","doi":"10.15359/ra.1-32.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-32.4","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to analyze the features of Camusian absurdism present in the short story “Un grito” (“A Scream”) (1947), by the Costa Rican writer Carlos Salazar Herrera. Specifically, it will focus on the expression of the absurdism and what this category implies in the configuration of the textual interweaving of the story. As theoretical-methodological references, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by the Algerian-French writer Albert Camus, and the theory of intertextuality by Julia Kristeva (1978). In this analysis, it was proved that in the text under study there are elements of the absurdism that demonstrate the influence of Camusian thought in Salazar Herrera’s storytelling.","PeriodicalId":473857,"journal":{"name":"Repertorio Americano","volume":"3 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141336488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Damaris Cordero Badilla, Ruth Cristina Hernández Ching, Jennifer Rojas Pinto
{"title":"The use of OER in English as a foreignlanguage at the university","authors":"Damaris Cordero Badilla, Ruth Cristina Hernández Ching, Jennifer Rojas Pinto","doi":"10.15359/ra.1-34.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-34.3","url":null,"abstract":"The Open Educational Resources (OER) have become important complements in the pedagogical transformations due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. This retrospective analysis tries to find out how 15 EFL professors from a public university incorporated OER in their language classes before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Therefore, the question guiding this inquiry is how did EFL teachers used and use OER before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic in their learning environments? A qualitative methodology is proposed, using the units of analysis for convenience. The results of the research indicate that since and before the COVID 19 Pandemic, public higher education institutions have made the (OER) available to teachers, that their use depended before the teacher’s motivation to use them, but that currently they are material support in the lessons. However, better training plans and technological infrastructure are still needed for a better dissemination of knowledge with the use of these digital resources.","PeriodicalId":473857,"journal":{"name":"Repertorio Americano","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141357701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La filosofía latinoamericana y el factor religioso","authors":"Dan Abner Barrera Rivera","doi":"10.15359/ra.1-34.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-34.2","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, the author explores the topic of religion in the debate on a Latin American philosophy in Augusto Salazar Bondy (1960’s). The arguments focus on religion and philosophy, generally considered opposite, dissociated or overlapping. The question is: How important is the religious factor when thinking about the need for one’s own Latin American philosophy To answer this question, an explanation about philosophy and religion is made. Secondly, religion is analyzed as and innate characteristic or not to human beings, as well as some reflections on the relationship between religion and philosophy through History, and the meaning of Eurocentric thought. Thirdly, what is the significance of the religious factor in Salazar Bondy’s proposal. Fourthly, due to Salazar’s critical analysis of the possibility of an authentic Latin American thought is doubtful, the contributions of Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui on this subject, 40 years before, are considered an example. Finally, the Liberation Theology is explained not like a “philosophy” but like creation of a Latin American thought that took into account “the religious factor” of these communities. At the end, this essay proposes four reflections instead of final conclusions.","PeriodicalId":473857,"journal":{"name":"Repertorio Americano","volume":"78 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141357735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiencias académicas y expectativas liberadoras en la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras","authors":"Renato Ulloa Aguilar","doi":"10.15359/ra.1-34.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-34.4","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this essay is to reflect on different academicexperiences, as well as the essential aspects present during the different teacher training processes, especially foreign language teachers, from a liberating and affective perspective.","PeriodicalId":473857,"journal":{"name":"Repertorio Americano","volume":"26 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141357244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Camus y Sartre, ¿disputa o afinidad filosófica? Concepciones en torno a la idea de responsabilidad existencial","authors":"Byron Ramírez Agüero","doi":"10.15359/ra.1-34.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-34.1","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is based on the question: how to represent the argumentative contrast of the concept of responsibility in the philosophical postulates from Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus?The main objective of this study is to link the way in which bothauthors address, agree, and differ on various philosophical pointsof view about this idea (individual and social human responsibility) throughout their works, and to compare this contrast tothe disputes they have during their life, looking for establishconnections and differences between both philosophical positions (Existentialism and Absurdism), as well as to approach to the foundations of their ideas. This study is based on Sartre byhimself (1955) and The Existentialism is a Humanism (1946),by Sartre, and The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) and The Revel Man (1951) by Camus.","PeriodicalId":473857,"journal":{"name":"Repertorio Americano","volume":"97 43","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141359122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}