Seul ce qui brule, de Christiane Singer : réécriture d’un conte de Marguerite de Navarre

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Hi, my name is Bertha Estela and my passion is teaching languages. In fact, I have taught English as a foreign language for over forty years, all the way through grade school up to university level. One day, twenty years ago during Summer school, due to an emergency, the university where I was teaching English requested me to help them out the next day - substituting a teacher of Spanish who had fallen sick. I didn ́t give it a second thought ...¡¡¡¡ piece of cake!!!. Next morning , there I am, standing in front of a group of 20 enthusiastic and eager American teachers full of questions...

Utilizando un corpus de textos que encajarían en la consideración de literatura menor (diccionarios, vocabularios, sermonarios, confesionarios, cartillas y catecismos, mapas, inventarios, emblemas, diálogos catequizadores, escapularios y estampas) se analizan los primeros instantes del encuentro cultural americano, y de la incomprensión que a él parece subyacer.

This is the text of Moratin's "El Si de las Ninas", in Spanish with an English introduction and notes.