El papel de Pedro Almodóvar en la Movida Madrilena

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...

"Oye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras!"They're all Spanglish words -- and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of otherciudadesacross the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind-boggling, veryfonihybrid of two different languages -- or are they sodiferente?Mira:lonchando:Having lunch. "I'mlonchando,I don't wanna talk to him now."yogur:Yogurt. "Este yogurdoesn't really hit the spot when you'relonchando.Maybe I need to order ajambergueand some fries."bacuncliner:Vacuum cleaner. "Aye!I think thebacunclinerjust swallowed my...

Los cuentos incluidos en este libro se caracterizan por los temas centrales que se mezclan de forma natural y coherente. Entre esos temas resaltan la trágica inocencia juvenil, sueños que no se cumplen y la desesperante dicotomía de identidad de una persona que ha sido arrancada de sus raíces. Cada una de estas situaciones es proporcionada por el estado psicosomático de su personaje. Por los acontecimientos de la vida, forjados por fuerzas externas, algunos de estos personajes son llevados a su autodestrucción y otros a vivir sus vidas bajo una perpetua contaminación mental. En el...

For courses in Spanish Conversation and Intermediate Spanish. This text encourages the exploration of "free expression" in Spanish on universal topics of importance and interest. It stimulates class discussion by motivating students to talk about controversial and interesting topics such as abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia. The exchange of ideas brought about by the use of this text allows students to develop their oral conversation and confidence in an atmosphere of friendly controversy, rather than simply learning in an environment focused upon having the "right answer" and...