Desde su fundación en 2010, "Cuento de Luz" se ha convertido en una fuente importante de literatura infantil con la misión de
publicar libros de valores universales enfocados en la paz, la diversidad y la
protección del planeta.
"El silbido de Juan" es un hermoso relato sobre un
niño que posee un talento especial para silbar.
Juan, sin embargo, no puede hablar. Asiste al colegio y
presta atención pero solo puede responder con silbidos de distintas tonalidades
que expresan lo que quiere decir.
Sus compañeros lo aceptan como alguien especial y
eventualmente, Juan entabla amistad con Taleb, un niño nuevo que tocaba el
bendir (especie de gran pandereta) prodigiosamente.
Los niños crecen juntos y compiten por la atención de una
joven llamada Clara, quien es capaz de suscitar los sonidos más inesperados de
parte del joven mudo.
Las ilustraciones a cargo de Sonja Wimmer son de ensueño,
adornadas con anotaciones musicales para destacar el contenido.
"El águila y la gallina", también publicado bajo
su título en suahili "Kuku na Mwewe", fue inspirado por un cuento
tradicional africano adaptado por Marta Munté Vidal.
Situado en el poblado de Nrao Kisangara, al pie del
Kilimanjaro, el cuento trata de una gallina (Kuku) y un águila (Mwewe) que son
grandes amigas.
Pero todo cambia cuando la gallina presumida le pide
prestada una aguja al águila para reparar un hermoso vestido que se había
comprado y que le hacía recibir todo tipo de cumplidos.
La aguja de Mwewe era un preciado recuerdo de su familia,
pero Kuku la extravía, poniendo en peligro su linda amistad.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Boricuas / Latin@s in Global Flux: Shifting Spaces of
Inflection
11th Biennial Conference - Puerto Rican Studies Association
Denver, Colorado
23 – 26 October 2014
According to the Census Bureau’s population estimates, as of
1 July 2011, the Latino population of the United States reached 52.0 million,
making people of Hispanic origin the country's largest ethnic or race minority
(constituting 16.7 % of the country's total population). At the same time, more
Puerto Ricans are now residing in the Diaspora than in Puerto Rico.
Whereas the majority of Latinos in Colorado are of Mexican
descent, Puerto Ricans are the second largest Latino group in the state, and
have become increasingly more visible, particularly through a local Taste of
Puerto Rico Festival. It is also a known fact that Puerto Rican migration
patterns are changing and our population distribution in the United States is
being reconfigured. Meanwhile, the political status of Puerto Rico and its
relationship with the USA, remains an unresolved and contended matter, even
after a fourth referendum on this issue was held in November 2012.
In an environment of perceived increase in political
strength and projections for sustained growth in our numbers, Latinos are far
from being a homogeneous constituency, and making use/sense of our strengths in
organized fashion remains a challenge. Are we really in transition toward a
more balanced sharing of power where we may enjoy a more equitable place? If
so, how should we negotiate that transition? What can be learned from our
experiences in forming alliances across ethnic, racial, national, linguistic
differences? What new alliances need to be forged? How do we connect with/to
each other? To what extent do we share an identity or have common interests? What
is the relative/comparative place of Puerto Ricans within the larger Latino
population?
PRSA Conference Themes:
1. Papers, works-in-progress (WIP), workshops or other
creative presentations, and panels that connect or contrast Puerto Rican
studies to / with other genres of scholarship, including but not limited to the
various strands of ethnic studies that critique class, gender, race, sexuality
and other categories of social-legal identities and relations.
2. Papers, works-in-progress (WIP), workshops or other
creative presentations, and panels that focus on the multiple dimensions of
Latina/o identity and its relationship to current legal, economic, social,
political and cultural regimes or practices.
3. Papers, works-in-progress (WIP), workshops or other
creative presentations, and panels especially salient to Colorado and the
Western United States. The U.S. Regional emphasis ensures that the Conference’s
geographic rotation will illuminate local issues, helping us understand how
local particularities produce (inter)national patterns of privilege and
subordination.
4. Papers, works-in-progress (WIP), workshops or other
creative presentations, and panels that elucidate cross-group histories or experiences.
In this way, each Conference aims to explore not only intra-Latina/o
diversities, but also to contextualize Latina/o experience within inter-group
frameworks and Euro-Heteropatriarchy. Accordingly, we constantly ask how we can
create progressive movements, communities, and coalitions that meaningfully
recognize difference.
5. Papers, works-in-progress (WIP), workshops or other
creative presentations, and panels that highlight praxis with scholarship that
builds on histories and transformative practices of social justice movements.
6. Papers, works-in-progress (WIP), workshops or other
creative presentations, and panels that focus on culture broadly conceived, and
analyze the varied artistic, musical, literary production of Puerto Ricans and
other Latinos in light of the conference themes.
PRSA Pre-Conference Workshops:
The PRSA Pre-Conference Workshops are designed to assist
junior faculty and advance graduate students in professional development and
career planning, and are tailored to scholars whose research and work projects
focus on Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans and their communities, and Puerto Rican
Studies. These will include a workshop on tenure and promotion as well as a
discussion of the history of PRSA and its contributions to intellectual life
and collaborative community work. Pre-Conference Workshops will take place on
Thursday Morning 23 October 2014. More details about the workshops will be
forthcoming and posted on the 2014 Biennial PRSA Conference page.
The Host Institutions and Conference Site:
The Puerto Rican Studies Association was founded to help
promote scholarship in the field and offer a place for its scholars to come
together. The Association meets every year in a different location. PRSA holds
a one-day symposium during the month of October on odd years and a biennial
conference on even years. We maintain a list-serve for the dissemination of
news that may interest to the membership. For more information on the PRSA
please visit our website at: http://www.puertoricanstudiesassociation.org. We
encourage students, scholars, activists, and others with interests in the
island and its Diaspora to join and actively participate in the PRSA.
The University of Denver and the Latino Center for Community
Engagement and Scholarship (DULCCES) will host the 2014 Biennial Conference.
DULCCES is a consortium of interdisciplinary faculty from throughout the
university who are committed to placing Denver University at the center of
scholarship, teaching, and service related to Latinos in the Rocky Mountain
west.
Submission Information:
Proposed submissions are due by 15 January 2014. Please
visit the PRSA webpage site for updates and information on the biennial
conference: http://arlenetorresprofessor.com/PRSA/conferences/biennial-conference-2014.html.
This year we will be accepting the proposals for individual
papers, works-in-progress (WIP), workshops or other creative presentations, and
panels. Please visit the following site to submit your proposal: http://www.cvent.com/d/j4q85h/1Q The
program committee will only consider proposals submitted by members of the PRSA
in good standing (persons who paid the 2013 membership dues). Selected
participants will also be required to pay the 2014 membership dues and
pre-register in order to appear in the program. Please plan ahead.
For more information, please contact:
For local information, please contact: Professor Salvador
Mercado, Department of Languages & Literatures, University of Denver,
smercado@du.edu or (303) 871-2184.
For general PRSA information, please contact: Professor
Charles R. Venator-Santiago, Department of Political Science and El Instituto,
University of Connecticut, charles.venator@uconn.edu or (860) 486-9052.
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