Screen LibraryConfronting our canons：Spanish and Latin American studies in the 21st century
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Bucknell University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Lewisburg [Pa.] |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 247 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781611483512 (hbk.) 1611483514 9781611483512 |
| Index Number: | I730 |
| CLC: | I730.07 |
| Call Number: | I730.07/B878 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-238) and index. ""Confident and authoritative, Well-Written and balanced, provocative and controversial: this is an excellent book, a call to arms and action, that all shapers and readers of literary canons should study with care."--David T. Gies University of Virginia" "What is canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. "An Introductory chapter explains the power of canons and acquaints readers with the book. Chapter 1 contextualizes today's issues by reviewing the history of canon formation over time, crystallizing the evaluative and sociocultural functions of canons. Chapter 2 theorizes the types of canons that currently exist, from the dual internal canons in each person's mind to consensus in the fields of English and Spanish. Chapter 3 describes the canon in Spanish and Latin American literature, apprehended through a late twentieth-century statistical analysis of required graduate reading lists; this chapter also provides a guided tour of masterpieces in Spanish, nearly all of which are available in English translation. |