La diosa de las Américas

Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, however, it stands wondrously revealed as a place teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Latino and the Anglo, and the women with the men. With her talkative, intimate voice and stylistic narrative freedom, Castillo relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicano family. "Engaging . . . the author tells an important story and she tells it with inventiveness...

This book explores the political, social and cultural consequences of COVID-19 through a corpus of over 15.000 articles published in Spain and Latin America in the first pandemic year. Organized around four epistemic fields (geopolitics, gender, biopolitics, philosophy and culture), the contributions offer a quantitative and qualitative analysis combining Big Data tools and humanistic thought.

A sixteen-year-old girl writes in her diary about all the problems and events of her life, which include romance, depression, animal rights, stress, and health.

A collection of histrorical studies of Mexican-American theater by Jorge Huerta, Nicolas Kanellos, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto and others. Pieces include interviews, essays and vaudeville skits from the 1930s to the 1950s and an exclusive interview of Luis Valdez.

Una historia pequeña e intensa sobre la iniciación a la complejidad de vivir, del aprendizaje del amor y los tortuosos y ocultos senderos que conducen hacia la compasión.«Algunas novelas son como los remordimientos: se abren paso sin que la voluntad del autor pueda impedírselo. Un calor tan cercano, en principio, ni se iba a titular así ni iba a tratar de lo que trata. El tema de la infancia sólo aparecía en la medida en que justificaba el comportamiento adulto de la protagonista. Poco a poco, sin embargo, igual que, en mi ficción, Manuela se ve obligada a retroceder más de tres...