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William Bulfin published his "Tales of the Pampas" in The Southern Cross until they were translated into Spanish by Alejandro Patrick Clancy in 1997. In his tales, Bulfin regained the "communal nostalgia" speech, which encouraged in the Irish the need to create a strong and closed community that could protect them against external dangers and maintain the existing ties with their homeland. In order to preserve the Irish identity, and with the firm conviction that the mother tongue strengthens the identity ties, the author made use of plain English, and so he exemplified the language used by the Irish immigrants to live and grow in Argentina. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategies used by Bulfin to "translate" the Irish culture into a powerful selective tradition through an ideologically coherent discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to analyze the representations of teaching, that students from Basic General Education at the Teacher Training Institute in Santa Rosa and at the National University of La Pampa, have built. The research has a qualitative approach. The process starts collecting pictures and written considerations about what they think were the reasons that made them choose this profession. We have worked with 300 samples belonging to students from 2006, 2007 and 2008 that were analyzed with theoretical categories about their identification with the teaching role in three ways: the samples were taken from students in different moments of their studies; images were comparatively analyzed with the written discourse; the students came from two different institutions. Teaching representations were studied in written and drawn discourses trying to look for coherence; continuities and disruptions. These representations must be identified and analyzed to work for possible changes during training. They imply meanings and senses regarding teaching identity and political possibilities of performing the professional role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to compare the novel The Color Purple (1982) by the African American writer Alice Walker with its film version directed by Steven Spielberg (Warner Brothers Inc. 1985) from the perspective of poscolonial and cultural criticism. The comparison is based on an analysis of both artistic productions as vehicles of cultural transmission and it takes into account their narrative structures and the way in which they represent African-American identity. The differences in the codes used in literature and the cinema result in omissions and / or compressions of sections of the novel in the film version, which in turn produce differences between both works as agents of transmission of cultural identity. The comparison suggests that those omissions and / or compressions are mainly related to the role played by traditions and the knowledge of the past in the construction of cultural identity. This comparison has also permitted the identification of differences in the representation of the male characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we reflect upon the particular characteristics present in our culture, which determine the brittleness of women's identity, so common in our society. The social imaginary, in terms of a universe of meaning, is inseparable from the issue of power. Once established, it requires legitimating systems, norms and sanctions as well as mythological supports, emblems and rituals in order to maintain it. Myths that operate through naturalization, timelessness, and the recurrence of their argumentative plots obtain their symbolical effectiveness by appearing in different places in the social texture. By creating totalizing narratives and shifts in meaning, which help to produce invisibilities by eliminating the opposite sense, myths put into play their symbolical violence. Within this pattern, we have reflected upon the categories gender difference can be thought We found that they are based on an attributive, binary and hierarchical logic that works in terms of analogies, comparisons and dichotomies. Such conditions lead to the absence of reversibility between the One and the Other, wherefore the Same becomes the Only One, weakening the possibilities for women's identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]