Ojos que no ven

Many of the fundamental concerns of Chicano and Mexican letters are dealt with by Leal, such as the meaning and origin of the myth of Aztlan, the problem of distinguishing Chicano literature from American and Mexican literature, the consideration of the influence of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, the description of the feminine archetypes of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, and a review of the North American as depicted in Mexican literature.

En mayo de 1973, Ernesto Volkening recibió de Nicolás Gómez Dávila un legajo con los textos inéditos que fueron publicados cuatro años después con el título Escolios a un texto implícito. “Inicio la lectura de los Escolios hoy, el día 24 de mayo de 1973 —escribió Volkening—. Y a un tiempo empiezo a tomar los apuntes con los cuales me propongo llenar este cuaderno, y tal vez otros.” A los pocos meses, a modo de homenaje y réplica, Volkening le presentó a Gómez Dávila los cinco cuadernos en que transcribió y comentó los escolios que despertaron con más fuerza su...

Author and Professor Dr. Pablo Valdivia analyzes the contradictions and complexities of the Spanish traditional canon from a transnational approach. Valdivia explores this particular canon as a 'haunted house' by focusing on the specific dialectics of presence, absence and (in)visibilization offered in relevant case studies: Jose Ricardo Morales, Cervantes or Jesus Carrasco, among others. Under the new term of 'disinherited literature', Valdivia advocates for coining critical categories that enrich the study of Spanish texts and shed new light on their radical specificities far from biased...

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.