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A Brief History of Costa Rican Children’s Literature

2023
The essay provides a chronology for the development of children’s literature in Costa Rica. In addition, it argues that this body of texts subtly resists the popular notion of Costa Rican identity as a homogeneous population of simple white farmers descended from European colonists by including characters of indigenous and African descent. Costa Rican
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Coded Messages: Costa Rican Protest Literature, 1970–1985

2019
This chapter posits that the 1970s in Costa Rica was a period of sociological revolution whereby dominant ideas of national identity began to be openly challenged. It analyses the protest literature of this period written by three key authors: Quince Duncan, Carmen Naranjo, and Alfonso Chase. Firstly considering Duncan’s Los cuatro espejos, it explores
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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro—Costa Rican Literature

Meridians, 2004
Edward Waters Hood, Dorothy E. Mosby
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Quince Duncan's Los cuentos de Anansi: Reframing Young Black Lives in Anti-Racist Costa Rican Children's Literature

International Research in Children's Literature
This article investigates the role of Los cuentos de Anansi (Anancy's Stories) (2019), written by Quince Duncan and illustrated by Ruth Angulo Cruz, in disrupting anti-Blackness via anti-racist stories for Afro-Latine young peoples in Costa Rica. Drawing from the critical work of scholars such as Richard Delgado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Patricia ...
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Contemporary Costa Rican Literature in Translation. A Sample of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama

World Literature Today, 1977
Tom J. Lewis, Ervin Beck, Wilbur Birky
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Place, language, and identity in Afro-Costa Rican literature

Choice Reviews Online, 2003
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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature (review)

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 2004
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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness

American Literature, 2004
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Phenolic-rich extract from the Costa Rican guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) pulp with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity. Potential for COPD therapy

Food Chemistry, 2013
Kurt A Reynertson
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Computer assisted English language learning in Costa Rican elementary schools: an experimental study

Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Rafael Lara-Alecio, Beverly J Irby, Fuhui Tong   +2 more
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