Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century

by Joan Lipman Brown

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension, their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611483514
• ISBN13: 9781611483512
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"