GIUV2019-457
The research group LENA (for its Spanish acronym meaning Literaturas étnicas norteamericanas / North American Ethnic Literatures) aims to analyse literature written by North American authors of ethnic origin, that is, literature written by Native Americans, African Americans, Chicanos, Asian Americans or Arab Americans, among others, helping to make visible their histories, literary and cultural practices, epistemologies, concerns and interests in a local, national and global context, with a special emphasis on methodological interdisciplinarity and gender approach.
- To analyze the status, function, circulation, and reception of North American ethnic literatures in a local, national, and global context
- To analyze and disseminate the literary production of Amerindian, African American, Chicana, Asian American, and Arab American women in Spain
- To develop comparisons and alliances between this literary body of work and other minority literatures through analysis, teaching, and translation
- Develop pedagogical frameworks that contribute to disseminating these works in our classrooms, decolonizing the teaching of literature and its practices
- To translate a selection of these works into Spanish and Valencian with the aim of contributing to their visibility, circulation and teaching
- Native American / Indigenous literatures and polítics of representation.Analysis of the literary and audiovisual practices of Amerindian and indigenous authors in North America and their cultural representation from an epistemological, narratological, stylistic, political, ecocritical and translatological perspective.
- Ethnic literatures and decolonial / anticolonial pedagogy.Development of a critical anti-colonial pedagogy in the teaching of ethnic literature, which considers knowledge and methodologies that are different and/or complementary to Western ones in the classroom
- African American and Afrocanadian literature.Study of African American and African Canadian literature from a narratological, stylistic, political and translational point of view.
- North American ethnic minority literatures in a global context.Study of literary production written by authors from North American ethnic minorities according to their aesthetic, narratological, symbolic, historical, cultural, socio-political, ideological and pedagogical characteristics from an intercultural, ethical and committed perspective in a global context.
| Name | Nature of participation | Entity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANA MARIA BRIGIDO CORACHAN | Director | Universitat de València | |
| Research team | |||
| ANA FERNANDEZ-CAPARROS TURINA | Member | Universitat de València | |
| ANESA MUSLIMOVIC ORTEGA | Member | Universitat de València | |
| ADRIA LACREU SANMARTIN | Member | Universitat de València | |
| MONICA BRU CANTERO | Member | Universitat de València | |
| ELENA ORTELLS MONTON | Collaborator | Universitat Jaume I | Tenured university professor |
| VICENT CUCARELLA RAMON | Collaborator | Universitat de València | |
| LARA TORTOSA SIGNES | Collaborator | Universitat de València - Estudi General | UVEG PhD student |
| MANSHU WANG | Collaborator | Universitat de València - Estudi General | UVEG PhD student |
| SOFÍA CONCEPCIÓN MEDINA LÓPEZ | Collaborator | Universitat de València - Estudi General | UVEG PhD student |
| ANDREA HERRERA | Collaborator | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs | Full university professor |
| KALENDA EATON | Collaborator | University of Oklahoma | Tenured university professor |
| EWA B. LUCZAK | Collaborator | Universidad de Varsovia | Tenured university professor |
| SAMIR DAYAL | Collaborator | Bentley Universtity, Boston | Tenured university professor |
| ROSA SEGARRA MONTERO | Collaborator | Universitat de València - Estudi General | UVEG PhD student |
| BEGOÑA SIMAL GONZÁLEZ | Collaborator | Universidade da Coruña | Full university professor |
| MARÍA DEL MAR GALLEGO DURÁN | Collaborator | Universidad de Huelva | Full university professor |
| MARÍA IVARS GINER | Collaborator | Universitat de València - Estudi General | UVEG PhD student |
- Higher education
- English and German
- RACISM
- TRANSCRIPTOMICS
- GENDER
- ENDURANCE
- SEXUALITY
- MIGRATION
- ETHNICITY
- CULTURAL IDENTITY
- CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
- DECOLONIAL PRACTICES
- AFROFUTURISM
- CIVIL RIGHTS
- CRITICAL STUDIES OF RACE
- AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
- AFRO-CANADIAN LITERATURE
- NARRATIVES OF SLAVERY
- ECOCRITICISM
- INDIGENOUSNESS
- ETHNIC LITERATURES
- BORDER THEORY
- POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
- INTERCULTURAL TRANSLATION
- MINORITY LITERATURES
- PLANETARY NATURE
- POLICIES OF CULTURAL REPRESENTATION
- TWO-SPIRIT SEXUALITY
- POSTCOLONIAL AND DECOLONIAL THEORY
- CANON
- LEARNING COMMUNITIES
- ETHICS OF CARE
- EUROCENTRISM
- GENDER AND SEXUALITY
- CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN THE CLASSROOM
- ANTI-COLONIAL PEDAGOGY
- POSTCOLONIALITY
