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Bay Lodyans

Autor: Cécile Accilien

Número de Páginas: 285

In Haitian Creole, bay lodyans means to tell stories to an audience, and more generally, to entertain. This book is the first to analyze popular contemporary Haitian films, looking especially at how they respond to the needs and desires of Haitian audiences in and beyond Haiti. Produced between 2000 and 2018 and largely shot with digital cameras and sometimes cellphones, these films focus on the complexities of community, nostalgia, belonging, identity, and the emotional landscapes of exile and diaspora. They reflect sociopolitical and cultural issues related to family, language, im/migration, religion, gender, sexuality, and economic hardship. Using storytelling and other less traditionally "academic" techniques, Cécile Accilien advances Haitian epistemological frameworks. Bay Lodyans integrates terms and concepts from Haitian culture, such as jerans and kafou (derived from the French words for "to manage" and "crossroads," respectively) and includes interviews with Haitian filmmakers, actors, and scholars in order to challenge the dominance of Western theoretical approaches and perspectives.

El Dorado Shuffle

Autor: Morgan Nyberg

Número de Páginas: 344

In a freewheeling city in the Andes Mountains, the forces that contend for possession of an expatriate's soul are certain to do so in a bold, relentless and darkly-comic fashion. Nursing a drinking habit and a consuming guilt over his son's drug addiction, Mac McKnight - cool, ironic, ferociously moral in an off-kilter way - bolts from the winter rains of Vancouver and takes a job teaching high school in Esperanza. Perhaps here he will find peace, an El Dorado of the spirit. In the process, Mac arranges a coup, is seduced by the president's daughter, is almost eviscerated by that same president, flees into the Amazon rainforest, takes part in a doomed raid, is held captive in a brothel, is made a token bigwig in the Ministry of Strangers, and becomes an unwilling player in the cocaine trade. Bad things happen to Mac. But he never quite gives up. He fights back, always unwisely, always hilariously, finally to sink and almost drown in his own moral quicksand. And then he fights back one last time.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Autor: Erika L. Sánchez

Número de Páginas: 295

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM DIRECTED BY AMERICA FERRERA Instant New York Times Bestseller ‘I fell in love with Erika L. Sánchez’ stunning novel... The depth, wit and searing intelligence of her writing, and her young Latina heroine, struck me to my core.’ America Ferrera ‘This gripping debut about a Mexican-American misfit is alive and crackling.’ New York Times ‘A perfect book about imperfection.’ Juan Felipe Herrera The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself. When her sister Olga dies in a tragic accident, Julia is left to pick up the pieces of her family. She is also expected to fill the shoes of her sister. But Julia has never been the perfect Mexican daughter. As Julia struggles to find her place in the world, she discovers Olga was not as perfect as everyone thought. Who was her sister really? And how can Julia even attempt to live up to an impossible ideal?

Spanish and English in Small Town and Rural America

Autor: Daniel James Smith

Número de Páginas: 279

This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from Mexico and other areas of Latin America. Speech data from naturally-occurring conversations by 56 children and adults of both sexes are analyzed within Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. Eight language patterns are identified, including monolingual Spanish and English turns, codeswitched turns, and turns showing convergence (morphemes/words from one language with grammatical structure from the other). Tokens of each type (per sentence or short conversational turn) were counted per informant. Analysis reveals that percentages of monolingual and codeswitched utterances pattern in relation to percentages of utterances showing convergence, indicating that informants’ Spanish does not begin to converge toward English until fewer than 70% of their utterances are monolingual Spanish and that both codeswitching and convergence are mechanisms of language shift from dominance in one language to another. Several associated social factors of the informants, including age, gender, and country of origin, expand understanding of the ...

Santiago's Children

Autor: Steve Reifenberg

Número de Páginas: 252

Runner-up, Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards: Memoir/Autobiography Category, 2009 Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little more than good intentions and very limited Spanish, the 23-year-old Reifenberg plunged into the life of the Hogar Domingo Savio, becoming a foster father to kids who stretched his capacities for compassion and understanding in ways he never could have imagined back in the United States. In this beautifully written memoir, Reifenberg recalls his two years at the Hogar Domingo Savio. His vivid descriptions create indelible portraits of a dozen remarkable kids—mature-beyond-her-years Verónica; sullen, unresponsive Marcelo; and irrepressible toddler Andrés, among them. As Reifenberg learns more about the children's circumstances, he begins to see the bigger picture of life in Chile at a crucial moment in its history. The early 1980s were a time of economic crisis and political uprising...

Diary of a Company Man

Autor: James S. Kunen

Número de Páginas: 175

The funny, insightful, and inspiring story of a 1960s campus radical turned corporate PR man who finds himself, along with his fellow baby boomers, in a place called “Too Young to Retire and Too Old to Hire” James S. Kunen—author of The Strawberry Statement, an account of the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University—chronicles his adventures on the road to finding meaning in work and life. He traces his evolution from a rebellious youth who sees working as a kind of death, to a laid-off corporate executive who experiences not working as a kind of death, to a reinvented and reinvigorated individual who discovers something important and meaningful to do. The experience of falling victim to America’s recession-ravaged economy (and the people who run it) leads him along a career path far different from anything he had planned. After years of making a living, Kunen finally learns how to make a life. Diary of a Company Man will be a revelation not only to baby boomers but to young people trying to figure out what to do with their lives.

The New Yorker

Autor: Harold Wallace Ross , William Shawn , Tina Brown , David Remnick , Katharine Sergeant Angell White , Rea Irvin , Roger Angell

Número de Páginas: 1936

New World Order

Autor: Derek Green

Número de Páginas: 188

In his debut story collection, Green follows American ex-patriates as they travel a contracting and expanding world, seeking money, power, sex, peace, and quiet.

The Pidginization Process

Autor: John H. Schumann

Número de Páginas: 222

Four in One Adventures

Número de Páginas: 504

Studies in Korean Linguistics and Language Pedagogy

Autor: Sung-ock S. Sohn , Sungdai Cho , Sŏk-hun Yu

Número de Páginas: 624

Code Switching and the Classroom Teacher

Autor: Guadalupe Valdés

Número de Páginas: 40

Teaching Spanish-speaking Children

Autor: Loyd Spencer Tireman

Número de Páginas: 272

Life-affirming Acts

Autor: Hector Julio Vila

Número de Páginas: 180

Life-Affirming Actsis a journey into trust--trusting what students know and what teachers and students can produce when they collaborate in nurturing and creative environments. It is a unique and engaging expose of the living, working classroom and one teacher's struggle to help his students reach their spiritual and intellectual potential. According to Hector Vila, "Teaching and learning are about seeing, really seeing, deeply, penetratingly, and in an environment that nurtures the audacity we require to experience and examine, fail and criticize, and then describe." The fundamental premise of his book is that we are repressing and even rejecting the language of our students, especially in our reliance on staid and even oppressive methods of education. Vila takes a probing look at his own evolution as a teacher and emerges with fresh insight into how and why pedagogical choices are achieved. What's more, he offers a prescription for change, based upon his own experiences, with solutions and methods for confronting some of our field's most demanding issues: How do we work in crowded, inner-city classrooms where students have disparate learning backgrounds? How do we create...

The Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development Handbook

Autor: Lynne T. Díaz-rico , Kathryn Z. Weed

Número de Páginas: 360

Workbook in Second Language Acquisition

Autor: Larry Selinker , Susan M. Gass

Número de Páginas: 196

Last Boat to Cadiz

Autor: Barnaby Conrad

Número de Páginas: 260

A first-class ticket to adventure in 1945 Europe. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich is an open wound when a man steals south through France and into Spain.