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{"title":"Transaxillary Tri-Branch Aortic Endovascular Graft Repair of Recurrent Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm With Pararenal Aortic Occlusion.","authors":"Luca Bertoglio, Alice Lopes, Enrico Rinaldi, Matteo Bossi, Raffaella Berchiolli, Mauro Ferrari, Roberto Chiesa","doi":"10.1177/15266028221102652","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15266028221102652","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The absence of an adequate ileo-femoral access is usually considered an absolute contraindication to fenestrated and branched aortic repairs. Alternative routes and dedicated stent-graft designs have been advocated. Hereby, we describe the case of a 73-year-old man with a recurrent type IV thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm and complete thrombotic pararenal aortic occlusion treated successfully with a tri-branch custom-made endograft deployed via a transaxillary access.</p>","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"39 1","pages":"817-821"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90726418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Delirio americano: Una historia cultural y política de América Latina by Carlos Granés (review)","authors":"Rudyard Alcocer","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"506 - 507"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44287422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caracas Is Not Paris: The Moderate Modernity of Mestizaje in Teresa de la Parra’s Ifigenia (1924)","authors":"Alana Alvarez","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906569","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Through her epistolary correspondence and her novel Ifigenia 1924, Teresa de la Parra (1889–1936) questions racial stratification systems reminiscent of colonial times and still present in twentieth-century Venezuela. Parra establishes the malleability of racial categories through a moderate racial discourse that intends to re-classify whiteness as the sole marker of economic wealth. Via its young and naïve protagonist, Ifigenia depicts how white elites reluctantly adapted to modernity’s significant socioeconomic changes, leaving previous racial stratification systems—and their whitening projects—obsolete. Parra’s moderate approach to race has been consistently overlooked by numerous scholars who often focus on Ifigenia’s feminine discourse. However, Parra’s novel thrives in the nuanced juxtaposition between racial purity and mestizaje that mirrors the tension between Paris and Caracas as opposing geographical and racial spaces. Parra’s nuanced discourse reveals a moderate racial theory that underscores the importance of controlled racial mixing and intends to negotiate between a European ideal of racial purity and a Venezuelan mestizo reality at the turn of the twentieth century. Ultimately, her protagonist willingly sacrifices herself for the continuation of a national narrative where modernity has enforced an acceptance of mestizaje.","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"363 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49336289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feeling the Gaze: Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance by Gail A. Bulman (review)","authors":"Montserrat Fuente-Camacho","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906578","url":null,"abstract":"Afro-Brazilian culture and identity in those authors’ works. Part III, “Hybridities in Afro-Brazilian Culture,” examines how Afro-Brazilian community organizations, such as Filhos de Gandi and Cortejo Afro, have provided models of building social capital and societal transformation. Interestingly, as Afolabi notes, cultural manifestations that have often become associated with Afro-Brazilians, such as carnivalesque parades, are both exploitative and celebratory in their essence: that is, both “sacred” and “profane.” But these ironically garner needed promotion and funding for their socio-cultural projects. Lastly, Afolabi closes the work with a fascinating chapter on the role of acarajé (e.g., the Brazilian recreation of a Yoruba beancake) as an “ancestral food” or “(sacred) daily bread,” which has become an integral part of Afro-Brazilian identity and culture across Brazil. Overall, the book provides a thorough scholarly analysis, particularly in terms of literature. It is extensively researched, documented, and annotated—the endnotes alone comprise another chapter in and of itself. It also contains some rather interesting personal anecdotes, which read at times like a memoir from someone encountering “a home away from home” in Brazil, and what it feels like to live in and navigate around Brazil as a person of African descent. However, the book’s shortcomings are twofold: first, outside of students of Brazilian Studies and/or African Diaspora Studies generally, the work may feel tedious, even arcane, to general readership. As a remedy, a glossary of Afro-Brazilian terms used in the book would have been helpful. Secondly (and relatedly to the first point), while the book’s major focus is Bahia, it doesn’t explain well that this is not the only State with significant populations of Afro-Brazilians or of Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations. That is, States such as Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, São Paulo, for example, also have significant populations of African origin, and where Afro-Brazilian traditions have rooted and are still practiced to some extent. Bahia, by contrast, is in a unique position with its higher per capita Afro-Brazilian population; its capital city, Salvador, is the “Black Rome”; and is, moreover, one that is highly—and rather uniquely—influenced by Yoruba culture. Historically speaking, the region of Congo/Angola was the most prevalent source for African slaves destined to Brazil, and hence the cultural source for much of what is identified as “Afro-Brazilian” in terms of religion, music, dance, foods, language, etc. As such, other forms of Afro-Brazilian history and culture—and hence other forms of “cultural hybridity”—exist outside of Bahia, and despite Bahia. Due to this complex, complicated, and diverse sociohistorical reality, the book would have profited by having a historical overview on the diversity of AfroBrazilian history and culture, to better explain the sociohistorical complexities involved in resea","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"496 - 498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43488944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carmen Laforet: Después de Nada, mucho. Nuevas perspectivas al conmemorar el centenario de su nacimiento (1921–2021) ed. by Mark P. Del Mastro, and Caragh Wells (review)","authors":"Olga Bezhanova","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"498 - 499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44718053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing Editor’s Message","authors":"Conxita Domènech","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906566","url":null,"abstract":"Managing Editor’s Message Conxita Domènech In the summer of 2018, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of our organization, the AATSP, in Salamanca; in the current year, 2023, we have returned to this university town where Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522), Beatriz Galindo (1465–1534)—better known as La Latina—, and Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) lived. Salamanca always offers us a warm welcome. This time, the warm welcome was extended by several officers of the autonomous community, the city, and the university: Alfonso Fernández Mañueco—President of the Junta de Castilla y León—, Carlos García Carbayo—Mayor of Salamanca—, and Ricardo Rivero Ortega— President of the University of Salamanca. As if these inspirational encounters were not sufficient, we were also greeted by Santiago Muñoz Machado—Director of the Real Academia Española— and by Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón—United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. It was also a warm welcome because of the hot weather that blanketed this Castilian city as teachers and professors from all over the United States swarmed the terraces of the Plaza Mayor and its surroundings. Although the welcome was just as warm as in the summer of 2018, the Salamanca of 2023 radiated much more majesty and luminosity. Perhaps that luminosity was connected to the many assemblies in which there was no shortage of wine, cheeses, cured meats, and tortilla de patatas. Although we had to say goodbye to our Executive Director, Sheri Spaine Long, she made it very clear that she was not going to disappear. We need you with us, Sheri! Overall, we learned a lot this year in Salamanca and had even more fun than in 2018. We congratulated and welcomed María Carreira, our new Executive Director, at the conference. María has been a constant presence in our organization and annual conference, and she has served as Associate Editor of Hispania. She has also written for Hispania: “Learning for All: Addressing Issues of Access and Participation in Mixed Classes” appeared in the centenary issue. While you can read her bibliography on the AATSP website, it is worth mentioning that María is Professor Emerita from California State University, Long Beach, where she taught Spanish linguistics for over thirty years. Dr. Carreira has published extensively on heritage language pedagogy. She is a co-author of four college-level Spanish textbooks as well as a co-author of Voces: Latino Students on Life in the United States. During the conference, María spelled out her projects and vision for the AATSP. We wish you the best of luck, María! Returning to the United States and matters of our academic journal, Hispania, the September issue contains two short-form articles, seven research articles, and twenty-two book reviews. In the first short-form article, Sylvia López proposes museum projects for an elective Spanish course on health that is open to students at the high-intermediate level and above. In the second short-form article, Antonio Pérez-Núñez descr","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135049376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Un intelectual en tiempos sombríos: Francisco Ayala, entre la razón y las emociones (1929–1949) by Javier Krauel (review)","authors":"Susana Cavallo","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"509 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42371109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the Theater to the Plaza: Spectacle, Protest, and Urban Space in Twenty-First Century Madrid by Matthew I. Feinberg (review)","authors":"Esther Fernández","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"499 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44501028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Colectficción: Sobrepasando los límites de la autoficción ed. by Priscilla Gac-Artigas (review)","authors":"Álvaro Ramírez","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"505 - 506"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41593616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky (review)","authors":"Luciano Martínez","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.a906587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906587","url":null,"abstract":"Indeed, delirious. As an aid, the author includes an insert, a roadmap of sorts: a genealogical diagram detailing what is to him the convoluted nature of modern Latin American cultural and political history. Granés’s focus is, on the one hand, vast: He gives consideration to a plethora of poets, painters, essayists, dictators, and so on, from all the regions (and subregions) of Latin America during the time period in question. He could have started his account prior to Martí (with Bolívar, for instance, or even Spanish colonialism itself), but a longer temporal framework was not necessary for Granés’s argument. Opening the book with Martí’s reckless charge sets the stage in dramatic fashion; in addition, Latin American cultural and political history post Martí is (as the author shows) already intricate enough. On the other hand, there are recurring dramatis personae, ideas, and debates in Delirio americano: these serve as guides in what is otherwise a lengthy and dense text of more than five hundred pages before the endnotes. Some of these include the longstanding impact of José Enrique Rodo’s essay “Ariel,” related notions of anti-Yankeeism, and the skepticism toward science and pragmatism often found in the region. The author is adept at showing, through many examples, how poets and novelists in the region influenced the ideologies of political leaders; indeed, it was not uncommon for Latin American writers to become rulers of their countries. In many respects, as Granés makes plain, at stake in its various intellectual debates are views regarding the nature and destiny of Latin America: is the region, on account of its history and demography, destined (doomed, even) to frenzied and cacophonous political experiments that often lead to dictatorship, tyranny, and a pervasive sense of victimhood? Similarly, is Latin America the land of magical realism, opaque to—and essentially different from—the rest of the world? Or is it best, as intellectuals like Mario Vargas Llosa have posited in what might be described as a counter option, for the region to commit to the path of liberalism and democracy, messy and protracted though this path may be? Granés argues for the counter option, placing himself firmly in the camp of Vargas Llosa and other Latin American intellectuals who became disillusioned with the upheavals, power grabs, and polarization characteristic of the region (and which are becoming, Granés observes, increasingly common beyond the region). In contrast, readers committed to the first array of options will almost certainly find Granés’s book unconvincing (if not misguided). In addition, one could further critique Delirio americano as paying too much attention to masculine, patriarchal cultural and political figures and institutions. Granted, there are counterexamples of female artists, intellectuals, and political figures (e.g., Nahui Olin, Doris Salcedo, and Evita Perón), but in the study they are probably best considered the exceptions tha","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"507 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45697050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}