Boom y postboom. Desde el nuevo siglo

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.

En esta obra, finalista del Premio Casa de las Américas (Ensayo 1993), se exploran aspectos de la escritura de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda que los críticos decimonónicos y aún los de nuestro siglo han pasado por alto, principalmente las estrategias apropiadoras y transformadoras que utilizaba la autora para re-inscribir las voces silenciadas o dislocadas, haciendo de la marginalización una fuente insuperable de energía creativa. La escritora cubana/española intenta deconstruir el binarismo occidental del discurso hegemónico sobre la mujer y en el proceso contesta la pregunta que...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...