Desafíos, Diferencias y Deformaciones de la Ciudadanía

The volume offers a panorama of Romance-language migration literature (Castilian, Catalan, Galician) in 21st-century Spain, with special attention being paid to writers from Africa and the Middle East. It includes a comprehensive review of current research in the field, with the critical analysis of a systemized corpus of authors and works providing a solid base for future investigation.

Poems describe the experiences of a Mexican immigrant adjusting to life in a large American city, the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo in early twentieth century Paris, the sight of Mexico City in the distance, and other subjects.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Un detective endurecido, al regresar a su ciudad después de muchos años, recibe el miserioso encargo de encontrar Alacant, el lugar de la infancia y la memoria. Ésta es la crónica sentimental en azul del cumplimiento de esa búsqueda. Más allá de la nostalgia por una ciudad que se pierde en la bruma, esta investigación detectivesca ofrece una reflexión profunda sobre el pasado, el transcurrir del tiempo y el tortuoso camino hacia el mañana de un individuo y una sociedad; con los estremecimientos de la emoción despertada de su letargo al entrar en contacto con lo que ya se fue,...