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Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez
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Associate Professor of Hispanic
Studies with a Courtesy Appointment in English |
| Ph.D. |
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University of Hawaii |
| Department Member Since: 1993 |
My current
research involves an analysis of the cultural and sociolinguistic survival
of a unique Latin community in Ybor City, Florida through its tradition
of Spanish-language and particularly Cuban theater. More specifically,
the project also involves an analysis of the U.S. government's WPA Federal
Theater Project during the 1930s and 1940s and its assimilatory goals
with respect to the Spanish-speaking community in Ybor City.
Other projects I am involved with include 1) a sociolinguistic, ethnographic
study of the circumstances surrounding the emigration of Puerto Ricans
to Hawaii in the early twentieth century, 2) a psycholinguistic and cultural
analysis of the literary production of Latino monolingual, bicultural
writers, with particular attention to their strategies for conveying culture-specific
concepts and realities that defy translation, and 3) an analysis of the
self- contradicting discourse of identity and independence in late nineteenth-
century and early twentieth-century Cuba as seen through literary, journalistic,
artistic and epistolary forms of production, and their role in nation-building.
Recent Publications
- Brittin, Alice A. & Kenya C. Dworkin. "Rigoberta Menchú:
'Los indígenas no nos quedamos como bichos aislados, inmunes,
desde hace 500 años. No, nosotros hemos sido protagonistas
de la Historia.'" Nuevo Texto Crítico 11: January-June
(1993).
- "Rigoberta Menchú: Con quién nos identicamos?"
Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 3 (1992):
1-5
- Dworkin, Kenya C. "Teaching L2 within a socio-literary text
and context: Memoria del Fuego I, II and III, by Eduardo Galeano,"
in Proceedings of the XIIth Annual Conference on Spanish in the
United States & the Ist International Conference on Spanish in
Contact with Other Languages (1991) Los Angeles: U of Southern
California (Forthcoming).
- "Manifestaciones del habla afrocubana: La literatura como fuente
dialectal," Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American
Studies 1 (1990): 109-119.
For
More Information
Kenya C. Dworkin
y Méndez
Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
Baker Hall 160
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office:PH 125E
Phone: (412) 268-8052
Fax: (412) 268-1328
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