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Latin American Literatures and Cultures: Self and Society DOCUMENT RESUME ED 441 535 JC 000 375 AUTHOR Seabrook, John H., Ed. TITLE Latin American Literatures and Cultures: Self and Society. Papers from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (La Jolla, California, August 1996). INSTITUTION Community Coll. Humanities Association. PUB DATE 1996-08-00 NOTE 176p.; Special issue of an annual publication. Cover title varies from title page. AVAILABLE FROM CCHA, Community College of Philadelphia, 1700 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130 ($5). Tel: 215-751-8860. PUB TYPE Collected Works Proceedings (021) Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Community College Humanities Review; spec iss Fall 1996 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Community Colleges; *Humanities; Latin American Culture; *Latin American Literature; *Literature Reviews; Two Year Colleges ABSTRACT This special issue contains the following articles:(1) "Critiquing the Center: Rigoberta Menchu and Enrique Dussel" (Joseph R. Hoff); (2) "Caroline Maria De Jesus: -A Testimonial Voice in the Wilderness" (Eva Bueno); (3) "Latin American Women's Voices: La Malinche to Rigoberta Menchu" (Ana Maria Romo de Mease); (4) "China in Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths'" (Bettye S. Walsh); (5) "Julio Cortazar: Political Action and His Last Fiction" (Isolina Battistozzi); (6) "The Violence of Ivimory: Excavating Truth, Unearthing identity in 'Ashes of Izalco'" (Karen McGovern); (7) "The Inquisition Case of Mauricia Josepha De Apelo: Questioning Identity" (Magali M. Carrera); (8) "Narrator's Mask(s) and Text's Metamorphosis: Some Keys for the Latin American's Narrative in the '80's" (Hiber Conteris); (9) "Introducing Latin American Culture with Short Stories: First Person Narratives as 'I' Openers" (Donovan Johnson); (10) "Teaching Narrative Structure and Post Dirty War Argentine History through Luis Puerizo's 'The Official Story'" (Terry Krueger);(11) "Teaching Approaches to Rosario Ferre's 'Sweet Diamond Dust'" (Nora Erro-Peralta);(12) "Changing the Canon: Introductory Literature Courses as Stepping Stones" (Ann M. Wellington);(13) "Multiple Realities in Mario Vargas Llosa's 'The Storyteller'" (Diane Kamali); and (14) "Latin American Fiction: A Selected Bibliography" (Kay Gerard). (VWC) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. CommuilmaLy Colle e tr) Hallatllanfitilez view L.4to jean Utensil-ire "tures Au gust 1.996 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY iaeLL_, D.A. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 1 , U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION ' CENTER (ERIC) 71( This document hasbeen reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this 0 document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. SP'CI1A' ISS E 2 Articles From the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION The Community College Humanities Association isa nonprofit national organization devoted to promoting the teaching and learning of the humanities in two-year colleges. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Members at Large: Division Presidents: David A. Berry, Chair Central Division: Essex County College Rick Bailey Newark, New Jersey Henry Ford Community College Dearborn, Michigan Frederick W. Capshaw (ex officio) Eastern Division: President Noel P. Robinson Community College of PhiladelphiaCounty College of Morris Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Randolph, New Jersey Constance Carroll, President Pacific-Western Division: San Diego Mesa College Jeffrey Clausen San Diego, California Green River Community College Auburn, Washington Stephen Mittelstet, President Richland College Southern Division: Dallas, Texas William Paquette Tidewater Community College Daniel Moriarty, President Portsmouth, Virginia Portland Community College Portland, Oregon Southwestern Division: Nancy McCollum Pikes Peak Community College Colorado Springs, Colorado CCHA OFFICE: c/o Community College of Philadelphia 1700 Spring Garden Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 3 215-751-8860 Executive Director, David A. Berry Office Manager, Joeann Logan THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIESREVIEW Special Issue Fall, 1996 LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES: SELF AND SOCIETY Papers from the Summer Institute Held at the University of California San Diego Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Sponsored by The Community College Humanities Association Institute Co-directors: Patricia Grignon and Virginia Meyn Saddleback College, California Editor: John H. Seabrook Essex County College, New Jersey Project Administrator David A. Berry Essex County College, New Jersey 4 IN MEMORIAM PATRICIA GRIGNON 1938 - 1996 ©Copyright 1996 Community College Humanities Association COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES REVIEW Special Issue Fall, 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Virginia Meyn 1 Critiquing the Center: Rogoberta Menchti and Enrique Dussell 5 Joseph R. Hoff Caroline Maria De Jesus: A Testimonial Voice in the Wilderness 14 Eva Bueno Latin American Women's Voices: La Malinche to Rigoberta Menchu 33 Ana Maria Romo de Mease China in Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths" 46 Bettye S. Walsh Julio Cortazar: Political Action and His Last Fiction 56 Isolina Battistozzi The Violence of Memory: Excavating Truth, Unearthing Identity in 66 Ashes of Izalco Karen McGovern The Inquisition Case of Mauricia Josepha De Ape lo: 79 Questioning Identity Maga li M. Carrera Narrator's Mask(s) and Text's Metamorphosis: Some Keys 89 for the Latin American's Narrative in the '40's Hiber Conteris Introducing Latin American Culture with Short Stories: 97 First Person Narratives as "I" Openers Donovan Johnson Teaching Narrative Structure and Post Dirty War Argentine 109 History Through Luis Puenzo's The Official Story Terry Krueger Teaching Approaches to Rosario Ferre's Sweet Diamond Dust 119 Nora Erro-Peralta Changing the Canon: Introductory Literature Courses 130 as Stepping Stones Ann M. Wellington Multiple Realities in Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller 146 Diane Kama li Latin American Fiction: A selected Bibliography 156 Kay Gerard 6 THE CONTRIBUTORS Virginia Meyn, Co-Director of the Institute, is Professor of English and Humanities at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California. Isolina Battistozzi is a member of the faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Eva Bueno is a member of the faculty at Penn State DuBois Campus, DuBois, Pennsylvania. Maga li M. Carrera is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Hiber Conteris is a member of the faculty in the Department of Modern Languages at Alfred University, Alfred, New York. Nora Erro-Peralta is a member of the faculty at The Schmidt College of Arts and Humanities, Boca Raton, Florida. Kay Gerard is a member of the faculty at Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon. Joseph R. Hoff is a member of the faculty at Mac Murray College, Jacksonville, Illinois. Donovan Johnson is a member of the faculty at South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, Washington. Diane Kama li is a member of the faculty at Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon. Terry Krueger is a member of the faculty at Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon. Karen McGovern is a member of the faculty at Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York. Ana Maria Romo de Mease is a member of the faculty in the Division of Humanities at the College of the Redwoods, Eureka, California. Bettye S. Walsh is a member of the faculty at Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia. Ann M. Wellington is a member of the faculty at the Beatrice Campus of Southeast Community College, Beatrice, Nebraska. 1 LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES: SELF AND SOCIETY Virginia Meyn I view NEH Institutes not solely as providers of knowl- edge but as seeds for the future. In our case this has meant new courses, new research and potential publica- tions, new careers, refresher courses, new views on known material and the discovery of sights and texts previously unknown. The choreography ... has been set up by the directors, scholars and lecturers; the rest is up to each of our participants and to what they have brought with them. (Saul Sosnowski, in a letter to Virginia Meyn) For five weeks last summer, twenty-five teachers from across the country gathered on the campus of UCSD in La Jolla to study with lead- ing scholars in Latin American literatures and cultures in a NEH summer institute sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association. They came from community colleges, four-year colleges and universities. They came from literature and language, including ESL, history, art histo- ry, and philosophy. And they came with enthusiasm. Most had travelled in Latin American countries, and some were Latin Americans. Several were published authors. They all came to learn, but theirs was more than a learning session. This group launched a dialogue with a momentum of its own, a creative exchange of insights and impressions that would bear those "seeds for the future" that Professor Sosnowski described. They are, from what I hear, still talking. The papers that follow are the offspring of some of those exchanges, born as much from long working lunches
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