Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolome De Las Casas

Santa Arias is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. She has published Retorica, historia y polemica en el Nuevo Mundo: Bartolome de las Casas y la tradicion intelectual renacentista (2001), coedited Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Identity, Culture, and Experience (2002), and is working on "Spaces of Conversation in Colonial Spanish America: From Sacred Texts to Contested Territories." Her coedited volume The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is forthcoming. Eyda M. Merediz is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include a critical edition of Lope de Vega's play Los guanches de Tenerife (2003) and a book, Refracted Images: The Canary Islands through a New World Lens: Transatlantic Readings (2004). She is working on a coedited volume on the intersections of transatlantic and Latin American studies (Otros estudios transatlanticos: Lecturas desde lo latinoamericano) as well as a monograph onBartolomede Las Casas.

"While rooted in colonial studies, Approaches to Teaching the Writing of Bartolome de Las Casas represents a valuable contribution to a number of fields beyond its immediate disciplinary scope. It succeeds where others fail in making a persuasive case for the value of turning to writings from the past, and from the Hispanic tradition, to gain insights about our global present." --Yari Perez Marin, Northwestern University "This volume brings Las Casas's bold debates into twenty-first-century classrooms. It meets an urgent and long overdue need with contributions of high quality and extraordinary usefulness across a wide spectrum of multidisciplinary and multilingual perspectives in the humanities." --Maureen Ahern, Ohio State University