Sephardic Culture and Me

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Richard Kostelanetz
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Language ◽  
Avant Garde

In memory of my friend Diane Dietchman Tong (1943–1998), an independent scholar who wrote her MA on the Judeo-Spanish language commonly called Ladino. There is a rumour in my family that when I was born in 1940 my parents thought about sending out a card that would read, 'Now we present our son Dick, one part kike, some parts spic'. Politically correct before everyone else, so avant-garde were they, my parents decided instead to print a more conventional announcement of my arrival.

scholarly journals A propósito de Media hora jugando a los dados

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Isidro Hernández Gutiérrez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Language ◽  
Gran Canaria ◽  
Avant Garde

Media hora jugando a los dados was written by Agustín Espinosa as a contribution to the life, sign and work of the painter José Jorge Oramas (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1911-1935), from the Luján Pérez School. It is one of the avant-garde texts in the Spanish language par excellence, in which the scope and significance of the work of the painter from Gran Canaria is celebrated.

scholarly journals Obscuritas and the Closet: Queer Neobaroque in Mexico

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador A. Oropesa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Intellectual Elite ◽  
Luis De Gongora ◽  
Definition Of

During the Baroque period, Luis De GÓngora y Argote (1561–1627) wrote the first Spanish-language closeted literature. Some three hundred years later, the challenging originality of his closet verse, openly studied and appreciated by a cultured, intellectual elite, played a pivotal role in the development of homosexual literature in the early-twentieth-century avant-garde movements of Spain and Latin America. This essay will briefly explore how twentieth-century Mexican avant-garde writers expressed the closet using baroque models. The thesis is that the rhetorical strategies of obscuritas provided Góngora an ideal instrument for representing the closet, which in literature is defined as a symbolic space that allows writers to represent and readers to recognize homosexuality in a heterosexual context. The pertinent OED definition of closet as an adjective reads, “secret, covert, used esp. with reference to homosexuality” (“Closet”). This recognized use of obscuritas is validated further in the observations of the Peruvian colonial writer Espinosa Medrano, one of Góngora's seventeenth-century commentators, who epitomizes the consolidation of baroque aesthetics in Hispanic America by the criollo elite. The final chapter in this tour of the baroque closet will examine how the Mexican avant-garde became aware of obscuritas through Federico García Lorca's Gongorine lectures and poetry.

The Last Soviet Avant-Garde

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Avant Garde

The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Kuspit
Keyword(s):  
Avant Garde

Factorial Invariance of Child Self-Report Across English and Spanish Language Groups in a Hispanic Population Utilizing the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Newman ◽  
Christine A. Limbers ◽  
James W. Varni
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Factorial Invariance ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Hispanic Population ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Related Quality

The measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children has witnessed significant international growth over the past decade in an effort to improve pediatric health and well-being, and to determine the value of health-care services. In order to compare international HRQOL research findings across language groups, it is important to demonstrate factorial invariance, i.e., that the items have an equivalent meaning across the language groups studied. This study examined the factorial invariance of child self-reported HRQOL across English- and Spanish-language groups in a Hispanic population of 2,899 children ages 8–18 utilizing the 23-item PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed specifying a five-factor model across language groups. The findings support an equivalent 5-factor structure across English- and Spanish-language groups. Based on these data, it can be concluded that children across the two languages studied interpreted the instrument in a similar manner. The multigroup CFA statistical methods utilized in the present study have important implications for cross-cultural assessment research in children in which different language groups are compared.

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