Aguinaldo para las señoras del Perú y otrosensayos

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

Offers detailed analyses and reconstructions of Picon's eight novels. Of special significance to modern readers are his conceptions of Spanish history and character, patriotism, and women and sex -- conceptions that for their day may be considered advanced.

Etnógrafos coloniales reflexiona sobre los dispositivos de saber y las relaciones de dominación simbólica y material que se ejercieron mediante el discurso etnográfico sobre diversas etnias indígenas de la América colonial en el Caribe y en Nueva España principalmente, aunque no se limita a estos espacios geográficos. También analiza cómo y por qué se diseminan en este discurso una serie de enunciados que colaboran en la construcción de la diferencia cultural, la negación-creación de la alteridad, la producción del saber sobre el indígena y la configuración de nuevas...