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This project's sole objective is the creation and publication of the first anti-racist hispanic literature anthology textbook that has an ideological foundation based upon critical pedagogy, the theory of communicative language teaching in context, and equitable and inclusive teaching practices for social justice.
It will be directed toward undergraduate literature courses in Spanish. Its theoretical framework is a critical literary pedagogy that I am currenly developing for teaching literature in the Foreign (read World) Language classroom which was formed by applying theories related to Critical Pedagogy, Culturally Relevant Pedagogies and Cultural Sustaining Pedagogies, strategies for the development of Intercultural Competence, antiracist and equitable, and inclusive teaching practices, racial literacy and methodologies for teaching about race and social issues in the second-language literature classroom. This book will be "diverse" in practically every way you can perceive "diversity"--linguistically, ethnically, geographically, and thematically and will not prioritize writers of any specific political ideology, time period, race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. The content will be organized by genre (prose, poetry, and drama), time period or literary movement, and will feature literature from Spain, including the peninsular autonomous regions, Equatorial Guinea, the Hispanic Caribbean, Spanish America, and the US. This textbook anthology will be the result of a collaborative effort made by select-group of international scholars of Hispanic and Latínx literatures of the Spanish-speaking Diaspora who will not only be directly involved with the text selection for this anthology, but also providing the context for each authors work, and will also be responsible for providing original content for the student and the teacher about how the texts can be taught.
To aid my research on text selection, I am currently looking for literature professors in US universities to respond to a survey about the undergraduate courses they teach. This survey proposes to identify instructors’ preferences for specific literary works that they consistently use in introductory undergraduate literature courses. For each question, please respond about the texts you currently or consistently use in the undergraduate literature course(s) you teach. By default, this survey cannot collect data about you or your location to maintain your anonymity. However, you will be asked to provide your name and contact information at the end of the survey for follow up. Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary and is greatly appreciated.
It will take no more than 5 minutes and your participation may help improve textbooks and literary anthologies for literature courses in Spanish. Feel free to share the in with colleagues and friends who also teach literature in Spanish at universities with the United States.
Link to survey: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6D1tDXnKpYCCpZI
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