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Our discussion examines the action of the principal character, raymundo silva, who
proofreads a historical work titled The History of the Siege of Lisbon and decides to
deny an important fact: “the crusaders did (not) help the Portuguese forces against the
Moorish army”. added to the historical work, this não (“not”, in portuguese) produces
a disruption over the ‘real’ temporary line. In consequence, the city of Lisbon, at the
centre of a meteorological phenomenon, slides in between the medieval siege and
contemporary life. Thus, the historical subject resorts to a science fiction procedure:
uchrony. two intradiegetic symbols -the circle and the deleatur- represent the two
overlapped universes; the circle refers to the historical world and the deleatur symbolizes
the uchronic universe. therefore, História do cerco de Lisboa is not a sci-fi work,
but a postmodern historiographical metafiction.
Key words: Historiographical metafiction; Postmodern narrative; Uchrony; Lisbon;
José saramago.
Cultural Dynamics in a Pluriethnical Context:The Case of Quebec
Laura López Morales
Societies nowadays face the challenge of defining their identities when their cultural
composition is more and more diverse. Old parameters which linked themselves to a
definition based on a heritage of a tradition and a culture shared by a community is not
viable today. Quebequois society nowadays, especially in the region of Montreal, has a
profile constructed day by day due to people who have resided there for many generations,
the newly arrived, and the shared experiences among them in work environment
and public places. the particular case of the province of Quebec is quite revealing of
the most characteristic traces of the cultural dynamics generated by the presence of
ethnic groups of diverse origins that interact in the same space.
Key words: Quebec; Quebecois; Diversity; Dynamics; culture; society; Pluriethnic;
Majorities; Minorities.
Intercultural Language Learning: Innovation and Potentiality
Manuela Derosas
since the early ’80s the adjective “intercultural” in language learning and teaching has
seemed to acquire a remarkable importance, although its meaning is strongly debated.
As a matter of fact, despite the existence of a vast literature on this topic, difficulties arise
when applying it in the classroom. the aim of this work is to analyze the elements we
consider to be the central pillars in this methodology, i.e. a renewed language-and-culture
relation, the Intercultural communicative competence, the intercultural speaker.