Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolome De Las Casas

Informationen zum Autor Santa Arias is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. She has published Retórica , historia y polémica en el Nuevo Mundo: Bartolomé de las Casas y la tradición intelectual renacentista (2001), coedited Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Identity, Culture, and Experience (2002), and is working on "Spaces of Conversation in Colonial Spanish America: From Sacred Texts to Contested Territories." Her coedited volume The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is forthcoming. Eyda M. Merediz is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include a critical edition of Lope de Vega's play Los guanches de Tenerife (2003) and a book, Refracted Images: The Canary Islands through a New World Lens: Transatlantic Readings (2004). She is working on a coedited volume on the intersections of transatlantic and Latin American studies ( Otros estudios transatlánticos: Lecturas desde lo latinoamericano ) as well as a monograph onBartoloméde Las Casas. Klappentext The work of Bartolomé de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives, understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the apparent contradictions among his evangelising and his varying stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The essays gathered in this volume show teachers how to introduce and engage with Las Casas in a wide range of courses, undergraduate and graduate.

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• Authors: Santa Arias, Santa (EDT) Arias, Santa (Florida State University Arias
• Assisted by: Santa Arias (Editor), Santa (Florida State University Arias (Editor), Eyda M Merediz (Editor), Eyda M. Merediz (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2008
• EAN: 9780873529440
• ISBN: 978-0-87352-944-0
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous