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North American Ethnic Minority Literatures in a Global Context Research Group - LENA

Description

The LENA (North American Ethnic Minority Literatures in a Global Context) 
research group aims to analyse literature written by North American authors of ethnic origin, that is, literature written by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans or Arab Americans, and also including the so-called “white ethnicities” that encompass communities such as Irish Americans, Jewish Americans or Polish Americans, among others. Our main objective is to bring visibility to their histories, literary and cultural practices, epistemologies, concerns and interests in a local, national and global context, with special emphasis on methodological interdisciplinarity, border studies and the gender approach, as well as the relationship they have developed with Spain through studies focused on the reception and translation of their works into our languages.

 

 

Goals CT
  • To analyse the status, function, circulation and reception of North American ethnic literatures in a local, national and global context.
  • To analyse and disseminate the literary production of Native American, African American, Mexican American, Asian American and Arab American women in Spain.
  • To develop comparisons and links between this literary set and other minority literatures through analysis, teaching and translation.
  • To develop theoretical frameworks and critical, literary and cultural strategies that show other worldviews through a decolonised approach.
  • To develop pedagogical frameworks that contribute to disseminating these works in our classrooms, decolonising the teaching of literature and its practices.
  • To translate a selection of these works into Spanish and Valencian in order to contribute to their visibility, circulation and teaching.
Research lines
  • African American and Afrocanadian literature

    Study of African-American and African-Canadian literature from a narrative, 
    stylistic, political and traductological point of view.

  • Native American / Indigenous literatures and polítics of representation

    Analysis of the literary and audiovisual practices of Native American and 
    indigenous authors in North America and their cultural representation from an  epistemological, narrative, stylistic, political, eco-critical and traductological perspective.

  • American ethnic literatures

    Study of the literary production written by authors from North American ethnic minorities, paying attention to their aesthetic, narrative, symbolic, historical, cultural, socio-political, ideological and pedagogical characteristics from an intercultural, ethical and committed perspective, in a global context.

  • Ethnic literatures and decolonial / anticolonial pedagogy

    Development of a critical anti-colonial pedagogy in the teaching of Ethnic Literature that considers knowledge and methodologies different from and/or complementary to Western ones in the classroom.
     

Management
  • BRIGIDO CORACHAN, ANA MARIA
  • PDI-Titular d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a de Mobilitat
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Collaborators
  • CUCARELLA RAMON, VICENT
  • PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
  • Coordinador/a Curs
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  • FERNANDEZ-CAPARROS TURINA, ANA
  • PDI-Titular d'Universitat
  • Responsables de Gestio Academica
  • Coordinador/a Titulacio de Grau
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  • MANUEL CUENCA, CARMEN
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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  • MEDINA LOPEZ, SOFIA CONCEPCION
  • Doctorand.
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  • SEGARRA MONTERO, ROSA
  • Doctorand.
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  • TORTOSA SIGNES, LARA
  • Doctorand.
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Non-UV research staff

Contributors

  • Samir Dayal (USA-BU)
  • Kalenda Eaton (USA-OU)
  • Andrea Herrera (USA-UCCS)
  • Ewa B. Luczak (POL-UW)
  • Manshu Wang - Universitat de València
  • Elena Ortells Montón - Universitat Jaume I

Working team

  • John Howard - King's College de Londres
  • Silvia Martínez Falquina - Universidad de Zaragoza
Scientific production by UV researcher
  • BRIGIDO CORACHAN, ANA MARIA
    PDI-Titular d'UniversitatCoordinador/a de Mobilitat
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  • CUCARELLA RAMON, VICENT
    PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral PplCoordinador/a Curs
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  • FERNANDEZ-CAPARROS TURINA, ANA
    PDI-Titular d'UniversitatResponsables de Gestio AcademicaCoordinador/a Titulacio de Grau
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  • MANUEL CUENCA, CARMEN
    PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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Associated structure
Contact group details
North American Ethnic Minority Literatures in a Global Context (LENA)

Blasco Ibáñez Campus

Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32

46010 València (Valencia)

+34 963 864 137

Geolocation

www.uv.es/lenaval

anna.m.brigido@uv.es

Contact people
  • BRIGIDO CORACHAN, ANA MARIA
  • PDI-Titular d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a de Mobilitat
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