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Seva Vive - 3. ¿Mito o conspiración?

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Los historiadores discuten el grado en que los mitos populares como Seva afectan la percepción de la gente sobre la historia de Puerto Rico.

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Seva Vive - 5. La historia se da cuenta - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Historians continue to discuss the subjective nature of recorded history and the fine line between fiction and fact.

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Caption 11 [es]: y aquí está la diferencia que tengo yo como uno de los historiadores,
Caption 11 [en]: and here's the difference that I have as one of the historians-

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Seva Vive - 5. La historia se da cuenta - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

What is history? What is fiction? Is history fact? Do people believe history or fiction more readily? These are the kinds of questions critics ask as "Seva Vive" continues.

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Caption 49 [es]: Entonces eso nos incumbe a nosotros como lectores,
Caption 49 [en]: So, that is our responsibility as readers,

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Seva Vive - 4. El diario del general Miles

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Historians continue to point out logical gaps which call the tale of Seva's accuracy into question.

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Caption 27 [es]: que no saben quien es el Cid y cómo el general Miles,
Caption 27 [en]: who don't know who El Cid is. And how General Miles,

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Seva Vive - 2. La copla

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

History tells us that the 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico occurred in June and from the south. The fictional short story, Seva, tells a different story, one of an invasion from the east that came a month earlier. A type of musical oral history known as a "copla" mirrors the fictional story.

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Caption 6 [es]: Bueno como las plenas, la copla recoge,
Caption 6 [en]: Well, like the "plenas" [folkloric songs], the verse picks...

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Seva Vive - 1. ¿Indocumentada o bien documentada?

Difficulty: Beginner

Puerto Rico

Luis López Nieves' short story "Seva" takes place during the 1898 US invasion of Puerto Rico, in the fictional town of the same name, Seva. The story, first published in the newspaper Claridad, and which many readers mistook for fact, has sparked a very real debate about culture, identity, history and truth amongst Puerto Ricans of all stripes. The documentary Seva Vive explores these themes.

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Caption 13 [es]: ¿Cómo comienza "Seva"?
Caption 13 [en]: How does "Seva" start?

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