http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 21 May 2013 19:58:47 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 19:58:47 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=568631 This site allows the public to access over 150,000 primary sources that were previously dispersed in separate archives in California. There are themed collections divided by time period. One may also browse the site by a selected list of topics. It also has a segment especially for teachers. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=565937 Transnational Fiesta 1992 is a trailer from a documentary about an Incan family from Peru who have immigrated to the U.S. but who move freely back and forth between America and Peru, comfortable in both cultures and countries. The documentary follows them as they return to their home town in the Andes in 1992 to run the annual fiesta. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555166 This course studies important twentieth century texts from Spain and Latin America. The readings include short stories, theatre, the novel and poetry. This subject is conducted in Spanish and all reading and writing for the course is also done in Spanish. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555378 This course studies representative twentieth and twenty-first-century texts and films from Hispanic America and Spain. Emphasis is on developing strategies for analyzing the genres of the novel, the short story, the poem, the fictional film, and the theatrical script. The novels read this semester are Magali García Ramis's Felices días, Tío Sergio (1986, Puerto Rico) and Javier Cercas's Soldados de Salamina (2001, Spain). We will study Lorca's play "La casa de Bernarda Alba" (1936, Spain), films from Spain, México, and Cuba, poems by Darío (Nicaragua), Machado (Spain), Lorca (Spain), Hernández (Spain), Vallejo (Perú), Cernuda (Spain), and Luis Palés Matos (Puerto Rico), and short stories from México (by an exiled Spanish writer), Chile, Argentina, and Cuba. Thematic emphasis is on the Spanish Civil War, changing attitudes toward gender, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and the history of race in the Americas.