Lori Celaya – författare

Spanish for the Professions is written for students who plan to pursue careers in a professional, Spanish-speaking setting within the United States or abroad. The exercises engage the learner in actual, substantive, and relevant content. This is a one-of-a-kind textbook intended for the intermediate to advanced student of Spanish who wishes to apply his or her language skills in a professional context within the Hispanic business and professional world.

Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects through the lenses of cultural studies, critical race theory, narrative theory, and border studies. These narratives cover the United States, the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula and illustrate a shared diasporic experience across the Atlantic. Through a transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational lens, this volume brings together essays on literature, film, and music from disparate geographic areas: Spain, Cuba and Jamaica, the U.S.-Mexico border, and Colombia. Throughout the volume, the contributors explore intertextual transatlantic dialogues, and migratory experiences of diasporic subjects and queer subjectivities. The chapters also examine the use of language to preserve Latinx culture, colonial and Spanish cultural exchanges, border identities, and race, gender, identity, and cultural production. In turn, these diasporic experiences result from transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational phenomena that converge in a globalized society and aid in questioning the artificial boundaries of nation states.

Este estudio no busca enfatizar un “nosotros versus ellos” sino que explora la complejidad de las cuestiones que afectan el estado de las relaciones entre los mexicanos de la frontera norte y su centro, o entre México y los Estados Unidos. No se limita a revelar la existencia de afinidades y divergencias entre los individuos de la frontera, los chicanos, los latinos de EE.UU. y México, sino que busca ejemplificar el grado en que se manifiestan tales diferencias y similitudes en la diáspora mexicana, su literatura y su cultura.~This study does not seek to emphasize ‘us versus them’ but rather explore the complexity of the issues that affect the state of relations between Mexicans on the northern border and its center, or between Mexico and the United States. It is not limited to revealing the existence of affinities and divergences between individuals from the border, Chicanos, Latinos from the US and Mexico, but seeks to exemplify the degree to which such differences and similarities are manifested in the Mexican diaspora, its literature and culture.