Introducción a Antonieta Madrid. Lengua historia y cultura. Venezuela entre democracia y populismo

Introducción a Antonieta Madrid. Lengua, historia y cultura. Venezuela entre democracia y populismo (Introduction to Antonieta Madrid. Lenguage, History and Culture. Venezuela between Democracy and Populism) is an account whose discourse has one of the most original voices in Venezuelan contemporary literature, Antonieta Madrid. Through the story of the author, the collection of short stories in Feeling, which is one of her most important literary works, looks closer at Venezuela´s complex reality, from the different angles of language, history and culture. From the uproarious modernisation and lost in the middle of contradiction between freedom and tyranny started in the first decades of the 20th century, the story arrives to Hugo Chávez´s Bolivarian Republic in the 21th century. The objective of this study is to bring students closer to the learning of Spanish as a second foreign language, as well as to some cultural aspects of one of many linguistic variations of Spanish language, that is, Venezuelan Spanish. The real speaker of Spanish language will never be able to be defined as such without true understanding of a wide and complex field, as it is the field of variation, which is part of a linguistic, historical and sociocultural commitment which is essential and which nobody can deny.