New Challenges
in Language and Literature

 

Foreword: New Challenges, Daring Responses

The Organizers

 

Part I. New Challenges in Language

 

Ethnography and Complexity in SLA Research

Adail Sebastião Rodrigues-Júnior

Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva

 

Students’ Experiences and Beliefs in the Language Classroom:

Challenges and Opportunities for Reflective Learning

Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos

 

“Great Expectations”: Understanding Hope

Through Efl Teachers’ Narratives

Andréa Machado de Almeida Mattos

 

A Reflection on the Challenges for Teaching

Genres in University Settings

Antonia Dilamar Araújo

 

Genres in English Language Course Books:

Teaching Words and Images

Barbara Hemais

 

Slang and the Internet

Connie Eble

 

The Identity of “World English”

Kanavillil Rajagopalan

 

Fractals and Fragmented Identities in Language Acquisition

Liliane Assis Sade

 

Some Crucial Elements of Learning Ecologies

of Linguistic Contagion

Tim Murphey

 

Authorship in Materials Design for Language Teaching

Vilson J. Leffa

 

The Challenge of Autonomization

Walkyria Magno e Silva

 

Foreign Languages Teaching, Education and the

New Literacies Studies: Expanding Views

Walkyria Monte Mór

 

 

Part II. New Challenges in Literature

 

Transnational Cinema: Representations of Latin American

Geopolitical Struggles in Contemporary Anglo-American Films

Anelise Reich Corseuil

 

Red Criticism

Eloína Prati dos Santos

 

New Challenges from the Lost Unity: Shakespeare,

Performance and Difference

Erick Ramalho de Souza Lima

 

The Challenge of Critical Reflexivity Through

a Postmodern Paradox

Fabio Akcelrud Durão

 

Postmodern Fiction Challenges: Reevaluating the

Vietnam War and the War on Terror

Giséle Manganelli Fernandes

 

Postmodern Challenges in Alice Munro’s Short Fiction:

Issues of Language and Representation

José dos Santos

 

The Deconstruction of Cultural Icons in the Fiction

of Sandra Cisneros and Helena María Viramontes

Leila Assumpção Harris

 

India’s “Truths”: Criticism Across Borders

for an Alter-Post-Colonialism

Makarand Paranjape

 

Feminist Criticism and Knowledge:

(Literary) History and its Silences

Rita Terezinha Schmidt

 

In and Out the Global Village: Gender

Relations in a Cosmopolitan World

Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida

 

Hypertext, Information Overload, and the Death of Literature

Sérgio Luiz P. Bellei

 

Oracle Night: A Bakhtinian Reading of

Paul Auster’s Metafictional Narrative

Sigrid Renaux

 

Diaspora and Modernity: The Postethnic Ethos

in Denise Chong’s The Concubine’s Children

Smaro Kamboureli