Hispanidades: Latinoamerica: y los EE.UU. 2nd Edition (with DVD) (Spanish Edition)

HISPANIDADES: LATINOAMERICA Y LOS EE.UU. draws on the film series narrated by Carlos Fuentes, EL ESPEJO ENTERRADO, a unique documentary co-produced by SOGETEL (Spain) in collaboration with the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's renowned novelist and social commentator, provides a personal interpretation of the dramatic scenes recreated visually from the past.

The text includes a DVD containing related segments from the original series. The DVD menu allows the student immediate access to the appropriate video segment. Chapter themes relate to video segments from the Fuentes documentary.

This text is part of the Hispanidades Series of Textbooks, Workbooks, DVDs and Study Guides, an exciting multi-media course designed to provide students with the background to understand the heritage of the Hispanic world, -its history, culture, art and literature. In order to enter advanced study of Spanish language and Hispanic literature, students need a fundamental knowledge of the geography, history and culture of the Spanish-speaking peoples. The Hispanidades serves as a resource to provide this background while preserving instructors flexibility to shape their own courses.

HISPANIDADES: LATINOAMERICA Y LOS EE.UU. contains a strong emphasis on the culture and literature of the growing Hispanic population of the United States , giving advanced students and those of Hispanic origin, an important introduction to their own background. Latin America now begins north of the border, as Fuentes comments. Teachers will find that these texts, modestly priced to allow for the purchase of supplementary literary readings, fill a widely-felt void in intermediate and advanced Spanish-language courses.