Browsing by Subject "testimonio"

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    Responsabilidad, memoria y testimonio en Soldados de Salamina de Javier Cercas
    (Queen Mary and Westfield College, U of London Taylor and Francis, 2014) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
    Las novelas de Javier Cercas se articulan, en general, a partir de las preocu-paciones éticas — por ejemplo, La velocidad de la luz, Anatomía de un instante, Las leyes de la frontera, y, por supuesto, Soldados de Salamina — y de sus imbricaciones en la constitución de un héroe. De acuerdo con esto, en las páginas que siguen, y a partir del pensamiento de Emmanuel Lévinas, me propongo examinar el fundamento de la infinita generosidad con la que el narrador construye a uno de sus sujetos novelísticos, Miralles, y que responde a un instante ético a partir del cual se configura afectivamente la subjetividad del miliciano que deja con vida al ideólogo de Falange Rafael Sánchez Mazas, después de encañonarlo. A partir de ahí estableceré el principio estructurador de la novela, esto es, se explicará a partir de qué mecanismos está organizada y a qué motivaciones responde, tales como las responsabilidades éticas y su relación con la heroicidad o ‘personajes éticos’ frente a los ‘personajes de destino’, lo que debe vincularse con la responsabilidad por la recuperación de la memoria, tanto individual como colectiva.
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    Testimonios of (In)Justice and Communal Spaces: Four Latinas in Their First Year Teaching
    (IUPUI Office of Community Engagement, 2022-06-22) Sosa, Teresa; School of Education
    In August 2020, four Latinas began their first year teaching and entered a school system that continues to emphasize policies, measures, and curriculum that supports racism and social injustice. Their first-hand experiences included a pandemic that largely challenged modes of delivery in schools and the lack of access for students of marginalized communities that made existing disparities even more obvious. But they also entered teaching at a time when there was renewed interest in openly pushing issues of race, oppression, and violence to the forefront. This article details how these four Latina teachers connected their testimonios to the current sociopolitical realities and to their commitment to social change through monthly zoom chats. Their chats became spaces of Convivencia, a way to engage, reflect, and support each other that is centered within a Latina womanist epistemology. Cultural Intuition was used to analyze their experiences and to point out key aspects of their testimonios that reflect their ways of knowing and agency. This piece concludes by making a case for how these types of communal spaces are necessary across various institutions and spaces for Latinas.