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

American Literature, 2004
Tim Engles
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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature (review)

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 2004
Kwame Dixon
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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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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
Ann González
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“The other side of diversity”: students’ experiences of race, difference, and inequality in a Costa Rican international school

Race Ethnicity and Education, 2023
This paper examines bids for a more critical global citizenship education, the desire to engage students’ lived experiences of power and inequality, from students in an international school in Costa Rica that embraces diversity and conflict ...
Andrea Dyrness
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Review of Costa Rican Agricultural Exports: Banana, Coffee, & Pineapple

, 2021
Costa Rica is one of the world’s leading exporters of bananas and pineapple, as well as one of the largest producers of coffee in North America. These three exports make up the backbone of Costa Rican agriculture, which accounts for almost 5% (4.6% to be
Liam Hospidales
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Ashé-Caribbean Literary Aesthetic in the Cuban, Colombian, Costa Rican, and Panamanian Novel of Resistance

, 2020
Ashé-Caribbean Literary Aesthetic in the Cuban, Colombian, Costa Rican, and Panamanian Novel of Resistance contributes to understanding the important role that African-influenced spiritualcultures play in literature that challenges the concept that ...
T. Edison
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Experimental Analysis of Costa Rican Partially Grouted Masonry for Micro-Modeling Integration

IABSE Congress Reports
This research centers on the mechanical characterization of materials, contact surfaces, and material interactions essential for modeling Partially Grouted Reinforced Masonry utilized in Costa Rica. Employing a micro-modeling approach, which necessitates
Diego Hidalgo-Leiva, Aura Álvarez-Yee
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El “barrio Cothnejo-Fishy” de Carmen Lyra y la construcción de una ciudad “aristocrática”, desigual y conservadora en Costa Rica

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica
The main topic of this article is the analysis of the social space construction through the shaping of the “aristocratic” city in the barrio Cothnejo-Fishy (1923) of the writer Carmen Lyra as decisive element of the Costa Rican conservative project.
Sonia Angulo Brenes
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Narratives from the Pineapple Republic. On national self-understanding and sustainability paradoxes in Costa Rica as detected in Adrián Jiménez Brais’ play PIÑA

Revista Académica Arjé
The following article analyzes the play PIÑA (2023) by Costa Rican author Adrían Jiménez Brais. Based on an understanding of literature as a repository of social knowledge, where urgent narratives, discourses and issues are made visible and negotiated ...
Susanne Schlünder
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