{"title":"Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative ed. by Rocío del Águila and Vanesa Miseres (review)","authors":"Elvira E. Sánchez-Blake","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"139 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47112555","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":"Re-Conceptualizing Affricate Variation in Caracas Spanish","authors":"Manuel Díaz-Campos, Molly Cole, Matt Pollock","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This sociophonetic study examines affricate variation through a continuous lens using diachronic data from Caracas Spanish. We investigate the relationship between frication and occlusion period duration in affricate segments across two steps. First, we present a phonetic characterization of the dependent variable and its variants. Second, we examine the sociolinguistic profile of the variants in an oral corpus of Caracas Spanish. Correlation analyses between the frication period, occlusion period, and overall segment duration suggest that frication lengthening is most prominent, which may mean that affricate variation in Caracas is not necessarily a lenition process, but rather a lengthening one. Through a mixed-effects linear regression model, we determine that frication duration is significantly conditioned by social and linguistic factors in Caracas. Longer frication periods are predicted by following high vowels, corpus year, speaker sex, and in word-initial position. These results suggest that traditional affricate lenition may in some cases point to a process of lengthening and retiming that is both socially and linguistically stratified. This paper contributes to the field by providing an acoustic examination of variable affricate production as well as a diachronic sociolinguistic investigation of this phenomenon in the Spanish of Caracas, Venezuela.","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"26 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47629733","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 Próximos to Prójimos: Discursive Redlining, Autoconstruction, and Crossing in Estação terminal and Angosta","authors":"Jordan Jones","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Against the backdrop of extreme social and economic inequality exacerbated by discriminatory real estate processes like redlining, many Latin Americans turn to autoconstruction—a long-term process of gradually expanding and improving their homes to boost their standing in society. This article compares the novels Estação terminal (2010), by Brazilian author Sacolinha, and Angosta (2003), by Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince, to examine how redlining and autoconstruction operate on both economic and discursive levels. In the face of stereotypes that vilify socially peripheral groups, Sacolinha and Abad employ discursive autoconstruction—building up positive images of social “others” to countervail marginalization and assert a creative right to the city (Beal). Portraying characters who transgress borders both literal and figurative, the texts bridge the distance between characters and readers, inviting them to become prójimos (metaphorical neighbors) charged with defending the rights of others. Analyzing this process underscores how economic, narrative, and social resistance can interrelate. It also demonstrates that, just as marginalization and oppression compound when the factors on which they are based intersect, resistance is most effective when it too is multifaceted and intersectional, enacted on various fronts to reconfigure attitudes and work toward a more inclusive society.","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"83 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45168216","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":"El policial argentino en el período clásico (1930–1960) entre Sur y el peronismo: Modelos narrativos, tensiones y debates culturales ed. by Román Setton y Gerardo Pignatiello (review)","authors":"Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"154 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42148535","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":"Virtual Language Exchanges in Lower-level Language Classes: Promise and Practice","authors":"Rob A. Martinsen, Greg L. Thompson","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Interacting with native speakers in various types of virtual exchanges is becoming increasingly accessible for language learners and teachers around the world. The present study examined the experiences of beginning and intermediate level learners of Spanish in the United States as they interacted weekly with native Spanish speakers over the course of three academic years. Students were assigned to face-to-face settings or one of a variety of virtual exchange platforms including both free and paid services. The unique opportunities created by the structure and features of each setting whether face-to-face or online did seem to have an effect on the students’ experiences and were visible in the data analysis. Results indicate that students’ gender and the context in which they interacted with native Spanish speakers were related to greater or lesser changes in students’ motivation, willingness to communicate and perceived learning. Additionally, engaging with a paid interlocutor in a setting with few technological issues seemed to improve outcomes.","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"101 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66324871","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":"Amigos de la comunidad: Curso de aprendizaje-servicio en español by Julia O. Rajan (review)","authors":"M. Novella","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"162 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46570886","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":"Pedro Lemebel, belleza indómita ed. by Luciano Martínez","authors":"M. Muñiz","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"145 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43029074","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":"Barcelona, City of Margins by Olga Sendra Ferrer (review)","authors":"Sandra Ortiz-València","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"152 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47542857","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":"Morir en Isla Vista. Novela del Destierro by Víctor Fuentes (review)","authors":"Erick Dickey","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"166 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47962833","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":"Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching: A Globally Informed Approach ed. by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg, Maria Figueredo and Mihyon Jeon (review)","authors":"Emily Spinelli","doi":"10.1353/hpn.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51796,"journal":{"name":"Hispania-A Journal Devoted To the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese","volume":"106 1","pages":"157 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43002084","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}