Browsing Hispanic Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Author "Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria"
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Accommodating the Third Space in a Fourth Society: BDAFRICA, a groundbreaking source for the analysis of African Literature Reception in Spain
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (2018)Inherent features of African postcolonial literature have hampered reception quan- tification, which is even more often neglected in countries with limited experience of African decolonization processes. This has been ... -
Crossing the border between postcolonial reality and the `outer world': Translation and representation of the third space into a fourth space
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (2019)Stemming from poststructuralist interpretations of space and following Bhabha’s third space enunciation, in this paper we have coined the term fourth space and used this concept as a heuristic tool to address the need ... -
Decalogue of the Characteristics of Postcolonial Literature: A Proposal of a Taxonomy for Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature Studies
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (2021)This paper aims to offer a classification proposal of the features that are typically found, to a greater or lesser extent, in postcolonial texts in any language. In spite of the fact that this tax- onomy model is based ... -
Design and implementation of a database of Postcolonial African literature published in Spain
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (2016)This paper evidences the absence of a repository or databa- se that scompiles the publications of Postcolonial African writing in Spain, thus precluding comprehensive quantitative or qualitative studies on the impact ... -
Digital resources in praxis and research in humanistic translation: The case of the BDAFRICA database
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (Comares, 2023)This research highlights the need for a revolution in the convergence between Humanistic Translation and Digital Humanities. It is true that the Translation practice has already led the inclusion of electronic resources, ... -
Francophone African literature in Spain: A quantitative study based on the BDAFRICA database
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (2022)This article intends for the first time to show quantitative data regarding the reception of French-speaking African literature in Spain. Since it was not searchable in any repository, we have used the BDAFRICA bibliographic ... -
Pandemic natives, pandemic immigrants: Effects of COVID-19 confinement on the wellbeing of children in preschool education
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (2021)This study explores the behavioural effects of COVID-19 confinement in preschool children (aged 3–5) based on their parents’ perceptions. Now that policy makers in numerous countries are drawing up new policies on ... -
Pandemic natives: preschoolers� remote learning during COVID-19 confinement
Fernandez-Ruiz, Maria (2021)The aim of this research is to analyze the development of remote learning in preschool educa- tion during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study de- ploys descriptive and inferential statistics to interpret the data collected ...