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colonialismo
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the process by which the european powers, including the U.S., reached a position of economic, political, military, and cultural domination in much of Asia, Africa, and Latin America; In relation to Good Neighbor (opposite of Marti), the portrayal of Latine America in Hollywood, orientalismo/tropicalismo (Said)
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El otro
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form of cultural projection of concepts, projection constructs the identities of cultural subjects through a relationship of power in which the other is the subjugated element.
For Marti, the other is the imagined Latin American community's undesirable, that competes for power within the body politic. This other defines the Latin American identity by difference |
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hispano
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in the DNA, not cultures, economics, or politics, but part of self.
Essentialist conceptualization. |
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race/raza
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changes over time, not genetic or biological. Practices that permit discrimination--not to be tolerated during Cuban revolution.
Construct, no scientific definitions. |
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la diaspora
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historical dispersion of particular communities, as in the case of Cubans in Miami.
2 different camps: exile and emigration; exile-=nostalgia, desire to return. emigration=assimilation, ownership, integration. Historical dispersion of particular communities, scattering in relation to Cubania, during time of Cuban revolution, Fornet describes it as a natural occurrence in nations of change |
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el franquismo
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political ideology and the social movement that started and supported Franco regime; authoritarianism, nationalism.
Nationalists repressed former Republicans after Spanish Civil War |
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el cine de disidencia
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started at IIEC, Spanish Film School. Bardem and Berlanga. Everything was censored and dubbed, represented a fake society irrelevant. Used humor and satire to get message of dissent across.
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la frontera
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villanueva crosses many borders in Scene from the Movie Giant (through the use of dichotomies); borders; geopolitical, ethnic, formal, usually a constructed border (can also be physical border)
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el documental
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film with a message, includes real people and actual footage of an event, creative treatment of reality; truth?
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la memoria historica
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official memory, the state is involved at some level, usually the memory of the winner; Pacto de Olvido; Ley de Memoria Historica
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*ley de memoria historica
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find turth of what happened during civil war, find disappeared Republicans, give compensation to victims, remove symbols commemorating Franco; Davies says there is a sense of urgency and a need to address these problems because the witnesses will die soon
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el testimonio
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told in first person by a person who was there, bearing witness/telling truths; collective struggle(temas de violencia y trauma); discurso subalterno, usualmente tiene canciones or poemas y esta en spoken voice; function; crear solidaridad, collective memory; Tomoasa Cuevas' "Carcel de mujeres"
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ideologia
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set of beliefs, values, basic principles. worldview based on their standards of truth affected by social circumstances in which it is produces
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Marcos Ana
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la vida (poema) [decidme come es un arbol...]
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Benedict Anderson
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Imagined Communities (talks about Spain during Franco era in English, talk of 'memory')
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Madeline Davies
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"Is SPain Recovering its Memory? Breaking the Pacte de Olvido
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Juan FLores
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latino Imaginary: Meanings of Cimmunity & Identity; discusses how to determine what we mean when we say US latino or Hispanic (11/12):
Numbers approach-perpetuates status as a minoity social science approach: ehtnicity vs. race, "models of incorporation" cultural studies approach: focus on community and history |
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Juan Gonzalez
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"Harvest of Empire": Ch. 11 migration from Latin America is driven as much by US foreign policy as it is by people trying to escape conditions
ch.12 focus on language- the language issue in the US is just a fragment of territorial expansion--Manifest Destiny |
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Tino Villanueva
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poemas; Scene from the Movie Giant
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Jose Vincente Puente
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el reancor de las mujeres feas; uses pseudo-science to talk about physical characteristics and why she is Red
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Tomasa Cuevas
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Carcel de Mujeres: canciones hechas en la prision [poema/cancion][and buscando la policia; la pepa, en al celda 20]
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Franco
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"Raza" dialogue and dehumanizing the Reds
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Migual Hernandez
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Ascension de la escoba
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Giles Tremlett
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Secretos a Voces
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cine de cruzada
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holy war notion of reconquest of traditionalism essential spanishness. civil war=black/white holy war against infidels
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cine historico
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set in miedieval, reference to granada conquest of america olden days
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comedia folklorica/espanoladas (musical vehicles builte around popular singing stars to the times
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just a way to watch someone sing, very simple, maybe a love interest
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pacto de olvido
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agreed collective amnesia decided during transition to democracy. after death of franco. to stabilize and in the name of stability. no legislation, tacitly understood erasure of memory
cannot have pacto de olvido and be true democracy with that suppression |
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subaltern
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cultural-political category, it designates a subordinated particularity, produced by forces of domination; the subjugated "other" to the dominant group that controls economic and political bases of power. But the subaltern is not only acted upon (the tendency to see it as passive or absent, mobilized only from above) it also acts to produce social effects, and to represent itself in discrusive practices, as may be seen through the language/genre of testimonio
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collective memory
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the right to a remembered presence in the annals of history; the right to possess and reclaim a collective historical reality: "not an inert and passsive thing, but a field of activity in which past events are selected, reconstructed, maintained, modified, and endowed with political meaning"--Edward Said
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binary oppositions/oposiciones binarias
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one side of the binary opposition can be meaningful in relation to the other side.. the binary opposition may contain an implicit evaluation, so that, for example, birth and white are associated with good, black and death with bad. the anlysis of such series of oppositions provides crucial insight into the working o ideology...ideology may therefore work precisely to the degree that such series of oppositions are taken for grated, appearing to reflect rather than to structure the world. the critique of ideology entails the explication of a series of binary oppositions as a culturally specific interpretation, selection,and privileging of elements..."
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Michael Richards
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A Time of SIlence: issues of class and regional identity were played down as diagnoses of the 'sickness' of the national character and were cast in religious, psychological or medical terms. 'the defeated' had no history apart from their 'violation of the motherland'"
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personal memory
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one's own memory of events, feelings, and processing is individual
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collective memory
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shared experience consensus among a group (dissidents) about that shared experience example--testimonies and songs of prisoners
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historical memory
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winner's history. genuine democracy creates loser's space for their own discourse (definition of democratic social justice)
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