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Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish imperialism, capitalism, and globalization. In Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, instructors will find practical, interdisciplinary, and innovative pedagogical approaches to the cultures of Central America that are adaptable to various fields of study. The essays map out classroom lessons that encourage students to relate writings and films to their own experience of global interconnectedness and to read critically the history that binds Central America to the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. In the context of debates about immigration and a growing Central American presence in the United States, this book provides vital resources about the region's cultural production and covers trends in Central American literary studies including Mayan and other Indigenous literatures, modernismo, Jewish and Afro-descendant literatures, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and contemporary texts and films.

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At a time of anxiety and dehumanizing discourse about migration in the United States, this volume addresses an urgent need for Central American literature to find points of entry into classrooms. --Nicole Caso, Bard College

At a time of anxiety and dehumanizing discourse about migration in the United States, this volume addresses an urgent need for Central American literature to find points of entry into classrooms. --Nicole Caso, Bard College

"""At a time of anxiety and dehumanizing discourse about migration in the United States, this volume addresses an urgent need for Central American literature to find points of entry into classrooms."" --Nicole Caso, Bard College ""One of the volume's strengths is its wide variety of theoretical approaches such as feminism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, and ecocriticism, among others. . . . [T]his volume would be an invaluable resource for any instructor at the secondary or post-secondary level who teaches Central American culture as a part of their curriculum."" --Hispania"

"""At a time of anxiety and dehumanizing discourse about migration in the United States, this volume addresses an urgent need for Central American literature to find points of entry into classrooms."" --Nicole Caso, Bard College ""One of the volume's strengths is its wide variety of theoretical approaches such as feminism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, and ecocriticism, among others. . . . [T]his volume would be an invaluable resource for any instructor at the secondary or post-secondary level who teaches Central American culture as a part of their curriculum."" --Hispania"

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