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Literary Representations from the Border: The American Dream, Immigration, Power and Hyphenated Identities
(2020-12-08)
The recent phenomenon of massive immigration of Hispanic people to the United States, despite the strict discourse of power andpolitics proclaimed by the actual president of this country, of stopping their entrance, has ...
English for Disability Studies and Gerontology
(2020-05)
Este proyecto final de graduación comprende el proceso de diseño e implementación de un curso de inglés con fines específicos para una población de estudiantes del Programa de Posgrado en Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre ...
Breaking into Japanese Literature/Identity: Tatemae and Honne
(Revista Impossibilia, n. 2, Octubre 2011, 2011-10-31)
ABSTRACT: Due to the application of Euro-centered methods of interpretation, literary criticism has
overlooked key social aspects that are characteristic of Japanese literature. Among these much-neglected
characteristics ...
Por una bella avenida de palmeras. La arquitectura y el paisaje del tratamiento de la locura en Costa Rica (1883-1915)
(2022)
La separación espacial ha sido una de las respuestas más recurrentes para lidiar con la locura. Si históricamente consistió en el encierro indiscriminado de todo lo considerado indeseable, el paradigma asilar que comienza ...
Series VII: Endangered Gender
(2020-04-09)
This series of poems attempts to address a myriad of psychological issues suffered by LGBTQI+ people today. These poems pinpoint those misconceptions and traumas about gender identity and sexuality that later reflect in ...
Tacit Significance, Explicit Irrelevance: The Use of Language and Silence in The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter
(Revista de Lenguas Modernas, número 16, 2012-06)
Readers who approach the Theater of the Absurd face complex interpretive problems. The style of Harold Pinter, the laureate British playwright, adds an additional difficulty due to his particular use of language. His ...
Male identities in conflict: The construction of masculinity in the characters of Devi Mahasweta’s “The Hunt”
(Revista Literaria Cuarto Propio, No.7, Mayo 2011, 2011-05)
This article analyzes the construction of masculinity in Devi Mahasweta’s “The Hunt”.
Michael Kimmel and R.W. Connell’s work on gender identity are used as a theoretical
support to identify the different masculine ...
Evaluating the effectiveness of a course taught to microbiology students: Usefulness of vocabulary, speaking activities, and materials
(2022)
This research paper analyzes the extent to which teaching vocabulary and speaking skills to a group of students of Microbiology from the University of Costa Rica can be effective at improving language skills. Therefore, ...
The Construction of Black Manhood in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, From a Negative to a Positive Model: an eclectic theoretical perspective of Manhood
(2012-09-02)
A primera vista, la obra de teatro A Raisin in the Sun, de Lorraine Hansberry, aparenta promover una imagen negativa de la masculinidad negra. No obstante un análisis ecléctico de la misma que incluye las propuestas ...
The Culture-bound Hierarchy of Manhood: An Overview of Hegemonic Masculinity and Subordinate Male Figures in Shall We DANSU?
(Revista de Lenguas Modernas, n. 12, 2010, 2010-01)
Although the concept of hegemonic masculinity was defined more than two decades ago, failure to consider the significance of cultural differences in the construction of maleness has led contemporary critics to misinterpret ...