{"id":3353,"date":"2020-07-30T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:14:27","slug":"written-selfies-self-fashioning-and-representation-by-hispanic-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/2020\/07\/30\/written-selfies-self-fashioning-and-representation-by-hispanic-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Written selfies: self-fashioning and representation by Hispanic writers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reading outside in my hometown of San Miguel, Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n

In a project that combined research and production, Professor Hacthoun and I worked over the summer on preparing class material focusing on literary self-portraits. Literary self-portraits are a tradition going back hundreds of years in Hispanic literature; authors introduce themselves to the readers, describing their physical, mental, or emotional qualities, often times a combination of the three. Perhaps the most iconic literary self-portrait is Miguel de Cervantes, who in his collection Novelas ejemplares <\/em>described in words a portrait of himself.<\/p>\n

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An example of the informational sheets that accompany the self-portraits<\/p><\/div>\n

It doesn\u2019t start or stop with Cervantes. Following the same tradition, many authors throughout the ages and throughout the world wrote self-portraits of themselves. In the first part of the project, I collected as many self-portraits as I could, anything from poems about facial features to essays meditating on personality. After collecting a large number of them, Professor Hacthoun and I came together to discuss and select those that students could take advantage of the most.<\/p>\n

We then wrote small commentaries for each, pointing out different author\u2019s methods of self-representation and other such notes. I collected the self-portraits and commentaries into a document with information about the author, the context of the self-portraits, and a glossary to be published online for students to access.<\/p>\n

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At my work desk<\/p><\/div>\n

Throughout the project I learned about a lot about human\u2019s need to explain themselves to each other and to themselves, as well as various research skills. Literary self-portraits are a way of exploring one\u2019s own identity and even, in a way, fashioning it. The research we conducted opened an avenue for teaching that not only includes tools like vocabulary, history, and syntax, but also a way for students to explore and fashion their own identities.<\/p>\n

\u2013Laila B\u00e1rcenas Meade, July 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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