Thea Pitman

University of Leeds · School of Languages Cultures and Societies

This article reflects on developments in research into Latin American video games two decades after the first studies in the field. In particular, it fills a gap in research by reflecting on the pedagogical uses of video games, focusing both on their value in the undergraduate classroom and on the design of educational games for use by school child...

This article proposes that languages should be embraced by the field of extinction studies while at the same time being mindful of the imbrication of colonialism in both the assignation and terminology of extinction and attempts to revive or reclaim endangered and extinct languages. It thus argues for a decolonizing approach to discourses of both l...

This article focuses on the recurrent narration of caring relationships and attempts to construct communities of care in electronic literature created by Latin/x American self-identified women. It addresses this topic by reading a select number of these works in relation to the significant body of theory that has emerged since the 1980s around femi...

Since 1989 the Kariri-Xocó indigenous community of Alagoas state, Brazil, has been engaged in a unique process of cultural revitalisation. We have been working to bring back our ancestral language by drawing on community memories of the language through songs, stories and rituals, thus filling gaps in our vocabulary. Some of us circulate word lists...

Following the publication of our article in Modern Languages Open ('http://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.207') we wish to bring the following corrigendum to your attention.

Explores the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in the relationship of Indigenous contemporary art with the 'art world'.

Desde 1989, a comunidade indígena Kariri-Xocó do estado de Alagoas, Brasil, se envolve em um processo singular de revitalização cultural. Trabalhamos para recuperar nossa língua ancestral, aproveitando as memórias da comunidade por meio de músicas, histórias e rituais, preenchendo assim lacunas em nosso vocabulário. Alguns de nós distribuímos lista...

Este artículo se centra en proyectos creativos realizados en la intersección del arte textil y el arte de los nuevos medios en América Latina. En particular, dado que las artes textiles indígenas a menudo constituyen una fuente de inspiración para proyectos dirigidos por artistas no indígenas, se busca examinar cómo se puede decir que tales proyect...

This article seeks both to communicate a sense of the vibrancy and diversity of Indigenous new media artworks and projects, and to “frame” them within the context of the particular transnational networks of friendship and support into which they are born and in which they circulate. It is my contention that Indigenous new media arts have particular...

While rarely explicitly recognised in our disciplinary frameworks, the openness and curiosity on which Modern Languages in the UK is founded are, in many ways, ethnographic impulses. Ethnographic theories and practices can be transformative in relation to the undergraduate curriculum, providing an unparalleled model for experiential and holistic ap...

Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry - edited by Stephen M. Hart

There has been much academic debate about the relationship of indigenous communities to new media technologies, specifically with respect to the way that the former might appropriate the latter and the terms in which they might do so, with a significant number of critics arguing that the concepts and lexicon of the traditional practice of weaving,...

This article addresses the relationship of the disciplines of Modern Languages and Digital Humanities in Anglophone academia. It briefly compares and contrasts the nature of these “disciplines” – most frequently conceived of as either inter- or transdisciplines – before going on to examine in some detail the participation of Modern Linguists in Dig...

The concept of a human organism integrated with man-made components is nothing new in the history of the human imagination (González 2000a). However, the very real possibilities of combining human bodies and machines, especially (networkable) computer systems, via ever more advanced prosthetics and implants have increased exponentially in the devel...

A number of critics have identified the concept of hypertext as ideally suited to conveying the complexities of living with/between two or more cultures, homelands, temporalities, belief systems and/or aesthetic sensibilities. However, many others have feared the rampant growth of the internet, facilitated by its hypertextual architecture, precisel...

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, datab...

Elvira Vargas nació en un campo minero de Tlalpujahua, Michoacán, mudándose más tarde en su niñez a Toluca y luego a la ciudad de México en 1920. Asistió a la escuela primaria y a la secundaria pero fue forzada por la pobreza a buscar trabajo a una edad temprana. Empezó desempeñándose en puestos de secretaria y otros trabajos similares mientras est...

While nuanced and sensitive non-essentialist theorizations of Chicano identity have been put forward by key critics working in the field, these same critics still struggle, on occasion, to disentangle themselves from having recourse to essentialist arguments in their own work. The case that I examine here constitutes a prime example of this problem...

Given the copious amount of work in the field of Latin American studies that has been, and still is being, dedicated to examining issues of hybridity and mestizaje, the title of this book suggests a fairly modest contribution to the topic and I fully expected to read the usual, interesting if not life-changing, ajiaco, or perhaps even mole, of a re...

Aunque escritores experimentales latinoamericanos como Jorge Luis Borges y Julio Cortázar jugaron un papel clave en la generación de formas proto-hiper-textuaales de escritura, muchos años antes de la creación de la World Wide Web, la participación de escritores latinoamericanos en el campo contemporáneo de las obras digitales de hipertexto y de hi...

This article considers texts by two Mexican women writers that directly concern or are derived substantially from their experiences in Africa: María Luisa Puga's Las posibilidades del odio (1978) is a fragmented novel set in Kenya in the late 1970s; Verónica Volkow's Diario de Sudáfrica (1988) is a journal of a trip to South Africa in the mid-1980s...

Caulfield and Davis’s Companion to US Latino Literatures, published by Tamesis in their Monografías A series, which now includes an impressive range of such literary companions, provides ample proof that Latino cultural production is gaining in critical recognition. It has now effected the transition from the numerous anthologies of primary works a...

And what is happening is that, rather than looking for its niche in the Enlightenment idea of culture, the audiovisual experience redefines culture in terms of the way we relate to reality; in other words, in terms of the transformations which it produces in our perception of space and time. (Martín-Barbero 2000: 61). In the article cited above Jes...

Despite the very real concerns about the politics of connectivity in Latin America (outlined in the introduction to this volume), in this chapter I intend to challenge such pessimistic visions, arguing that, by hook or by crook, grassroots and activist organisations in the region have contrived to make strategic use of the Internet – and earlier, m...

The various contributions to this volume have all dealt with cultural products by Latin American practitioners that engage with notions of cyberspace in a variety of forms, whether through their actual existence as online works, or through interaction with the key tropes of cyberculture or hypertexts. As can be seen from these chapters, approaches...

What does the 'Mexican' in 'Mexican travel writing' actually mean? In the field of English studies in the United Kingdom, its meaning is assumed to be quite straightforward. Thus a critic such as Nigel Leask can publish an article entitled 'The Ghost in Chapultepec: Fanny Calderón de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel...

Writing the preface for an anthology of texts written by different authors presents challenges very different from those that a book by one sole author requires, not only due to the diversity of the themes, but also of the approaches and writing styles. A preface such as this is, to some extent, forced to read the book in another way, from another...

The seeming universality of pregnancy is continuously undermined by its concrete historical and local embeddedness (Rapp 1993:66).

This article foregrounds the difficulties inherent in writing a travel-chronicle of contemporary Mexico City at a time when the city itself has been ‘done to death’ by other writers and the genre of the travel-chronicle has fallen from literary grace. Taking a good example of what can be done under these circumstances, Héctor Perea's, México, cróni...

This thesis aims to prove the existence of contemporary Mexican travel-chronicling. Section 2 concentrates on two recent series of travel-chronicles commissioned by Alianza Editorial Mexicana and the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1989-1997). The purpose of this section is to examine the variety of contemporary, and possibly postmode...