Los clásicos de la literatura española y la inmigraciónuna propuesta didáctica

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It is inherent to human beings the fact of wandering throug unknown lands in search of a better place to settle, perhaps for this reason we continue feeling the uncontrollable urge to explore new territories and other ways of life. In the same evolutionary development comes the need to express themselves through artistic fields, giving birth to the arts in general, and literature in particular. In this paper, we will pay attention to both emigration and immigration, based on fragments of representative Spanish literary works, in order to apply to the teaching of the subject of Spanish language and literature in the second cycle of Compulsory Secondary Education. In particular, we focus on nine thematic clusters, namely: exile, rejection of the unknown, racism and xenophobia, separation, emigration as a means to improve their quality of life, nostalgia for the lost homeland, the misunderstanding between cultures, the enjoyment of travelling, the feeling of exclusion of immigrants and cultural enrichment resulting from the contact between cultures. To attain this goal, we propose general activities, applicable to all the selected fragments and activities of a particular kind, restricted to each text. With the implementation of these activities, apart from showing the students that in those studied literary works, regardless of their literary period, there are issues close to their daily lives, we follow a triple purpose: that students identify with the immigrant, to become aware of the fact that our culture has a strong immigrant tradition and make sure that the person who is in front of them is not "different", but we all are.