Del shtétl a la ciudad de los palacios

No es sabia la mujer que tiene muchos conocimientos, si no aquella que los sabe utilizar de manera positiva, y en el transcurso de nuestra historia no ha existido ser ms sabio que las brujas: mujeres amorosas, que no teman que su voz fuera escuchada, que cuidaban a quienes amaban pero sin ser sometidas. Ahora, en medio de este agitado mundo, parece que las mujeres hemos perdido esos atributos, hemos olvidado que las brujas no sacrificamos lo que somos por seguir a quien no nos valora. Es hora de que analices las actitudes nocivas que te alejan de las relaciones amorosas sanas y te mantienen...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

El viaje de Gide es un recorrido por la accidentada geografía de la intolerancia: más allá de Rusia, por las patrias presentes y futuras de la utopía total. "Con este libro Ruy Sánchez se ha revelado como uno de nuestros mejores ensayistas. Su escritura es nerviosa y ágil, su inteligencia aguda sin ser cruel, su ánimo compasivo sin condescencia ni complicidad [...] "Tiene la riqueza de detalles de una crónica histórica y la penetración psicológica de una novela. [...] En una prosa nítida y rápida Alberto Ruy Sánchez nos relata una historia compleja en la que la psicología...

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.