Los Bildungsromane femeninos de Carmen Boullosa y Sandra Cisneros

Algunas actividades y profesiones han enriquecido con expresiones originariamente suyas el vocabulario que ahora es común, como sucede con los soldados y los marineros, notables tributarios de la lengua que hoy hablamos todos. Oportuno, por ejemplo, empezó siendo palabra de marineros (es un derivado de puerto) y armario, un término de soldados (ahí guardaban las armas); y si la expresión no dar un palo al agua fue en sus inicios una reconvención a marineros perezosos, echar a alguien con cajas destempladas se refería a una manera infamante de expulsar a alguien del ejército. Este...

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

Seven middle-aged women, who have not seen each other for more than 30 years, are called to a class reunion at which they are forced to confront a terrible secret from their childhood.

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."