Vistas y voces latinas / Edition 3

by Esther Levine, Constance Montross

Overview

Vistas y voces latinas brings the rich world of Latin American and Latino writings to intermediate and advanced-intermediate students. Now in its third edition, this contemporary reader not only bears a new title, but also incorporates new selections and highlights new themes. Vistas includes an array of oral and written activities designed to stimulate students' critical thinking and develop their reading, writing, and speaking skills.

In combination with Vistas, the new edition of Spanish Grammar in Review also serves as an ideal complement to your intermediate and advanced-intermediate courses. The third edition of Spanish Grammar in Review by Holton, Hadlich, and Gomez-Estrada offers practical grammatical analyses and a multitude of review exercises.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780130282941
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	10/15/2001
Edition description:	3rd Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

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Vistas y voces latinas is an anthology of readings by contemporary Latin American and Latino authors designed for students of Spanish who have completed at least four semesters of college-level Spanish or who have the equivalent background. The goals of this text are to help students develop conversational and reading skills in Spanish, analyze literary selections through discussion and short compositions, write creatively in Spanish and expand their knowledge of Latin American and Latino culture through investigations of the cultural topics of each chapter.

Based on our own experiences using the second edition, Vistas: hoces del mundo hispánico, and readers' comments, we have made several substantive changes in this third edition while retaining those components that were successful in the second edition. The new selections and features include the following:

• New selections by these well-known contemporary authors: Sandra Cisneros, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Ángeles Mastretta, Marjorie Agosín and Heberto Padilla. In addition to new chapter readings, each chapter is introduced with a poem.
• New chapter themes: Unidad I: La desilusión y la esperanza, Unidad II: La soledad y la unión, Unidad III: Los derechos humanos y la justicia social, and Unidad IV: La imaginación y la realidad.
• New organization of selections and exercises:
  (a). Each chapter starts with a Para empezar section in which students discuss and compare the poem and work of art that introduce each chapter's theme.
  (b). The reading selections that introduce each unit are preceded and followed by Antes de leer and Después de leer exercises that stimulate conversation, creativity and analysis of each author's works.
  (c). The biographical introductions of each author are now in Spanish, reflecting a more advanced-level text.
  (d). Vocabulary lists and exercises precede the reading selections-to better prepare students.
  (e). Each chapter presents more selections, thus increasing the opportunities for discussion and comparison.
• New vocabulary section of Otras palabras útiles containing useful expressions and terms in Spanish.
• New Conexiones section with questions and essay topics that compare and contrast all the selections in a chapter, along with a list of recommended films and research topics.

The third edition retains the following popular features of the previous edition:

• Readings by these highly regarded Latin American and Latino authors: Francisco Jiménez, Rosario Castellanos, Pablo Neruda, Mario Bencastro, Silvina Ocampo, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Rosario Ferré.
• Autobiographical essays by or interviews with the authors.
• Vocabulary section of Palabras problemáticas.
• Numerous oral and written activities that challenge students to work with each other or individually to debate issues, create fiction, write analyses, and investigate related topics.
• Literary selections by both men and women writers.

Table of Contents

UNIDAD I: La desilusión y la esperanza.

Pintura: “Open Air School” de Diego Rivera.

Poema: “Plantado,” Gustavo Pérez Firmat.

Sandra Cisneros.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: Entrevista con Cisneros.

LECTURAS de La Casa en Mango Street—“Geraldo sin apellido”; “No speak English”; “Cuatro árboles flaquititos.”

Francisco Jiménez.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: “La génesis de ‘Cajas de cartón.'”

LECTURA: “Cajas de cartón.”

Gustavo Pérez Firmat.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: Comentario de Pérez Firmat.

LECTURAS de cincuenta Lecciones de exilio y desexilio—V, XXII (Sin cuenta), XLIX L.

UNIDAD II: La soledad y la unión.

Pintura: “The Epic of American Civilization” de José Clemente Orozco.

Poema: “Mi madre cuando nos visita,” Gustavo Pérez Firmat.

Rosario Castellanos.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: “En recuerdo de Rosario Castellanos.”

LECTURAS: “Kinsey Report No. 6”; “Kinsey Report No. 2.”

Angeles Mastretta.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: “La mujer es un misterio.”

LECTURAS de Mujeres de ojos grandes—“Un día el marido de la tía Magdalena...”; “No era bonita la tía Cristina Martínez...”; “Tía José Rivadeneira....”

Pablo Neruda.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: Memorias—Confieso que he vivido.

LECTURAS: “Poema XX”; “Oda a la vida.”

UNIDAD III: Los derechos humanos y la justicia social.

Pintura: “El tres de mayo” de Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

Poema: “Poética,” Heberto Padilla.

Rosario Castellanos.

LECTURA: “Memorial de Tlatelolco.”

Pablo Neruda.

LECTURA: “Margarita Naranjo.”

Mario Bencastro.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: Comentario de Bencastro.

LECTURA: “El fotógrafo de la muerte.”

Marjorie Agosín.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA.

LECTURAS de Ausencia de sombras—“Lo más increíble”; “Memorial de las locas en la Plaza de Mayo”; “La desaparecida.”

UNIDAD IV: La imaginación y la realidad.

Pintura: “¿Lo mira o lo sueña?” de Ramón Llovet.

Poema: “Instrucciones para ingresar en una nueva sociedad,” Heberto Padilla.

Silvina Ocampo.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: Correspondencia con Silvina Ocampo.

LECTURA: “La casa de azúcar.”

Gabriel García Márquez.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: Conversación con García Márquez.

LECTURA: “Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes.”

Rosario Ferré.

SELECCIÓN AUTOBIOGRÁFICA: Conversando con Rosario Ferré.

LECTURA: “La muñeca menor.”

Índice de palabras problemáticas.
Vocabulario.

Preface

Vistas y voces latinas is an anthology of readings by contemporary Latin American and Latino authors designed for students of Spanish who have completed at least four semesters of college-level Spanish or who have the equivalent background. The goals of this text are to help students develop conversational and reading skills in Spanish, analyze literary selections through discussion and short compositions, write creatively in Spanish and expand their knowledge of Latin American and Latino culture through investigations of the cultural topics of each chapter.

Based on our own experiences using the second edition, Vistas: hoces del mundo hispánico, and readers' comments, we have made several substantive changes in this third edition while retaining those components that were successful in the second edition. The new selections and features include the following:

• New selections by these well-known contemporary authors: Sandra Cisneros, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Ángeles Mastretta, Marjorie Agosín and Heberto Padilla. In addition to new chapter readings, each chapter is introduced with a poem.
• New chapter themes: Unidad I: La desilusión y la esperanza, Unidad II: La soledad y la unión, Unidad III: Los derechos humanos y la justicia social, and Unidad IV: La imaginación y la realidad.
• New organization of selections and exercises:
  (a). Each chapter starts with a Para empezar section in which students discuss and compare the poem and work of art that introduce each chapter's theme.
  (b). The reading selections that introduce each unit are preceded and followed by Antes de leer and Después de leer exercises that stimulate conversation, creativity and analysis of each author's works.
  (c). The biographical introductions of each author are now in Spanish, reflecting a more advanced-level text.
  (d). Vocabulary lists and exercises precede the reading selections-to better prepare students.
  (e). Each chapter presents more selections, thus increasing the opportunities for discussion and comparison.
• New vocabulary section of Otras palabras útiles containing useful expressions and terms in Spanish.
• New Conexiones section with questions and essay topics that compare and contrast all the selections in a chapter, along with a list of recommended films and research topics.

The third edition retains the following popular features of the previous edition:

• Readings by these highly regarded Latin American and Latino authors: Francisco Jiménez, Rosario Castellanos, Pablo Neruda, Mario Bencastro, Silvina Ocampo, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Rosario Ferré.
• Autobiographical essays by or interviews with the authors.
• Vocabulary section of Palabras problemáticas.
• Numerous oral and written activities that challenge students to work with each other or individually to debate issues, create fiction, write analyses, and investigate related topics.
• Literary selections by both men and women writers.