The session that the AATSP organized at this year's MLA Convention in Boston (held on January 4, 2013) was dedicated to a topic that has been the object of constant debate in the past decades: the use of "Spanglish" as a marker of identity among US Latinos. The author states that she puts "Spanglish" into quotation marks…

This essay explores the relationship(s) between English and Spanish in the novel "Raining Backwards" (1988) by Cuban American Roberto G. Fernandez. While the many linked plots and characters suggest many protagonists, this study demonstrates how language itself takes on the role of protagonist. Through the author's use of calques…

This article discusses what is at stake in teaching works written in "Spanglish" in Spanish departments and what teaching such works might mean for students and the scholarly community at large. This article primarily comes out of the author's experiences teaching "Spanglish" works in Spanish courses at a major research…

The Hispanic literature of New York has often been classified as belonging to a handful of canonical authors or selected national groups. However, examples from the early years of the newspaper "La Prensa" and Felipe Alfau's novel "Chromos", as well as consideration for New York's cultural climate during the first decades of the twentieth century,…

This annotated bibliography, which updates the linguistic sections of a 1958 publication, indexes monographs and homage articles published between 1957 and 1975. Studies on Basque, Catalan, Spanish and Spanish American linguistics are indexed. The first section arranges titles alphabetically by the subject honored, the second lists subjects by…

A list of dissertations, completed and in preparation, in the field. (RM)

This analysis examined twentieth-century Spanish American works, geographically distributed throughout the area and including all genres. Results are given by genre and by nation. (RM)

Refers to "betrayal" in the translation of poetry.

This paper recounts a brief history of Spanish exploration in the territory of the United States and surveys Spanish influence in industry, agriculture, foods, architecture and vocabulary. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

Suggests using the Hispanic literature of the American Southwest to teach Spanish in elementary school. Describes specific classroom practices using, as an example, a specific short story as well as games and activities that can be used in conjunction with the story. (SED)

Explores the use of microcomputers in the study of literature, particularly in Hispanic studies. The philosophy and methodology of literary computing, electronic text preparation, note-taking, searching, indexing, tagging, text collating procedures, and poetry and literary analysis are discussed. (CB)

The Spanish Native Language Arts program at Sarah J. Hale High School (New York) integrates the study of reading, writing, and vocabulary with the study of texts that present cultural, literary, and artistic achievements of Hispanic cultures. (CB)

Describes a college course on the written literature in Spanish of the Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans of the United States, including the rationale, resources, and course structure. Such a course helps to shatter misconceptions regarding Hispanics and further expands the intellectual horizons of students. A bibliography of Hispanic literature…

Reprinted from "A Handbook for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, edited by Donald D. Walsh (Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Co., 1969). (DS)