Greetings to all of you from Nebraska... terra cha in the middle of the
United States.
This has been a very informative discussion thus far, I have really
enjoyed reading all the different materials you all use in your classes. I
truly hope that there is soon a Companion to Galician Culture... David,
please keep us posted. The MLA book will also be a welcome teaching and
research aid.
I had my first chance to actually teach a unit on Galicia in an
upper-level undergraduate Spanish course I called "Espaņa Multicultural". We
read a historical piece by Mike Kelly on Galicia and its history as a nation
within the state of Spain, and we read Xelis de Toro Santos' "Negotiating
Galician Cultural Identity" from Labanyi and Graham's Spanish Cultural
Studies. We studied several poems by Rosalia in bilingual edition, I had
them read both and I read the Galician aloud to them so they could hear it
(Yankee accent and all). We read a short story by Rivas in Spanish from Que
me queres amor, then watched the movie from that book, la lengua de las
mariposas. We spent considerable time discussing Galician cuisine, and
should I teach this again I will bring in octopus and maybe a torta de
Santiago to share. They did see my ceramic "cuncas" for drinking wine. They
learned about Inditext/Zara etc, and the stunning fashion designs from
Galicia (Purifiacion, Verino, etc). They also saw some ceramics from
Sargadelos and learned about the interesting history of that company as well
as its cultural contributions. The last day, I played music from Galicia,
selecting very traditional folky-stuff up to Galician rap/movida/even
hip-hop sounding stuff. They loved that part.
While this unit lasted only a couple of weeks during the semester, I
kept thinking of how many other things I wanted to include. I would love to
teach a Valle-Inclan play, read Emilia P-B, and even have them identify
cultural symbols in the cartoon O Xavalin (I'm sure I have spelled that
wrong). (by the way, does anyone know how to get episodes of that?)
I look forward to hearing more of what all the rest of you do in your
Galician teachings.
Sincerely,
Michelle Evers
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From: "Kirsty Hooper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 6:35 AM
Subject: [GALICIAN-STUDIES] (How) do you teach Galician in your courses?
Responses please!
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is both a request for information and (hopefully!) a starting point
> for discussion, and it comes in two parts... Please jump in and respond to
> either or both questions, whether with your own experiences or with
general
> observations.
>
> First of all, I am very keen to know how many of us currently include
> Galician topics in our courses - whether as subjects in their own right
(eg
> Galician language, Galician literature, Galician history etc) or as topics
> within larger topics (eg including Galician authors or Galician events in
> surveys of Hispanic literatures, history, politics, etc). If so, what do
> you include? How did you make your choice? What are your objectives? (feel
> free to talk about hypothetical courses as well...)
>
> Second of all, as many of you will know, one of my biggest bugbears is the
> almost complete absence either of dedicated Galician textbooks suitable
for
> university students, or of Galician writers, examples and topics from
> Spanish pedagogical resources (I am especially thinking of all the
> Companions to Spanish whatever that have sections on Catalan and Basque
and
> then mention Galicia and Galician topics only in passing ... and not
> always accurately - ie the Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel, which
> refers to SOUSO de Toro!). So ... what resources do you use? Have you
> come across anything that you would like to share? What kinds of resources
> would be most useful to you in your teaching?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Kirsty
>
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