Calderón sin fronteras

Mexican writer and philosopher Leonardo da Jandra discusses the possibility of a return to the ideals of postmodernism, drawing from a variety of theorists from Marcel Mauss to Ludwig Boltzmann, and explores concepts such as utopia--based on his experiences living on the beach in Oaxaca--as well as language and permanence.

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...

Novela histórica en Colombia, 1988-2008 pretende interpretar, de una manera profunda y seria, el nuevo fenómeno que ha irrumpido en la literatura colombiana: el enriquecimiento inusitado de la narrativa histórica. Para llevar a cabo su cometido, Pablo Montoya se detiene en veintiuna novelas publicadas a lo largo de los últimos veinte años. Se trata de novelas sobre la Conquista, sobre la Colonia y sobre el siglo xix ; también incluye su análisis sobre novelas que se han referido al pasado de otras latitudes. Este libro, el primero que aborda novelas históricas contemporáneas desde...

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...