INTERCULTURALISM AND LITERATURE IN THE EFL

CLASS

PROF. MARIA ALEJANDRA QUIROGA

FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS- UNT

INTERCULTURALISM

CAN BE TRACED AS FAR BACK AS 1959.

REFERS TO THE SUPPORT FOR CROSS-

CULTURAL DIALOGUE.

PROMOTES DIALOGUE AND INTERACTION

BETWEEN CULTURES.

INTERCULTURAL LITERATURE

CONTRIBUTES TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF

CULTURE THROUGH TIME

CAN ACT AS AN AGENT TO DEVELOP

STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS.

ROLANDO HINOJOSA(1929)

CHICANO LITERATURE AS

INTERCULTURAL EFL CONTENT

BECKY AND HER FRIENDS

(1990)

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THE EFL CLASS

PAY ATTENTION TO THE USE OF SPANISH

WORDS:

…And landed here with those gachupin idea,

that ridiculously insolent Spanish su-pe-ri-o-ri-ty, la

superioridad española…

…They were old Mexicans, mexicanos viejos…

ANALYSE CHARACTERS TAKING INTO

ACCOUNT THEIR ORIGIN AND POSITION IN

SOCIETY.

……that only gives the big jobs to the Anglos- Klail

Electric, Belken & Co- and the little ones to us, as if

we didn’t know as much as anyone…

(Isidro Peralta)

COMPARE CHARACTERS AND THEIR NARRATION OF BECKY’S

LIFE

Elvira Navarrete

• Becky’s mother.

• She is Mexican and her husband American.

• Very conservative, obliged her daughter to get married to a

‘good’ man.

• She is against Becky’s divorce.

Viola Barragan

• Elvira Navarrete’s friend.

• Businesswoman

• World traveller

• Helps Becky after the divorce and they work

together.

THANK YOU!