Comentario al "Sueño de Escipión" de Cicerón

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...

El autor utiliza la manera en que Tomás Eloy Martínez presenta en la novela "Santa Evita" la biografía de Eva Perón, para advertirnos sobre el carácter "construido" de la historia "oficial" y sobre la existencia de una identidad nacional impuesta e indiscutida. El principal objetivo es analizar los rasgos generales de la novela histórica latinoamericana contemporánea y su relación con la "crisis de representación" que actualmente afecta a la credibilidad y la objetividad de la historia y su discurso, a través de la figura de Eva Perón. El escritor construye finalmente una novela...

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

Este libro trata sobre la presencia de la memoria en ocho poetas latinoamericanos del siglo XX. Escrita con un lenguaje intenso que no decae nunca y mantiene al lector expectante, Poesía y memoria recrea los instantes privilegiados en que la memoria se convierte en un vehículo de acceso a los rincones donde confluyen el recuerdo y la escritura, para enseñarnos todo lo vital que puede ser la poesía.