American Emergent National Literature

This volume presents a selection of texts written by relevant white (Crevecoeur, Franklin, Jefferson) and black (Wheatley, Equiano) authors during the final years of the eighteenth- century. Their writings represent the spirit of the Enlightenment and explore the meaning and central role of what it was to be an American at the Revolution and early Republic eras.

My main fields of interest are American literature and its pedagogical potential for the teaching of EFL. I have published articles in Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, Academic ExchangeQuarterly, Culture, Language and Representation, Atlantis, Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and English Teaching-Practice and Critique among other journals. Books published include La verdadera historia del cautiverio y la restitución de Mary Rowlandson. Traducción, estudio crítico y notas (A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson). Translation, Critical Study and Notes) (2008); Truman Capote, un camaleón ante el espejo (Truman Capote, a Chamaleon at the Mirror) (2009) and Prisioneras de salvajes. Relatos y confesiones de mujeres cautivas de indios norteamericanos (Prisoners of Savages. Stories and Confessions of Captive Women of American Indians) (2012). I am currently working on the critical evaluation of contemporary retellings of fairy tales by British and North-American writers and on its practical applications to the EFL classroom.