El Caribe universal

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

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...

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...

El mito clásico de Psique y Cupido ha sido una fructífera y atractiva fuente de inspiración literaria. Este libro hace un recorrido del mito desde sus orígenes, centrándose en el auge que tuvo durante el siglo XVI a través de las figura de Manuel Lara, Cetina y Herrera.

Contenido: Geneviève Fabry/Ilse Logie: Los imaginarios apocalípticos en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (s. XX-XXI). Una introducción - Camille Focant: El Apocalipsis de Juan. Género literario, estructura y recepción - Julio Ortega: La alegoría del Apocalipsis en la literatura latinoamericana - Marco Kunz: Apocalipsis y cierre de la novela en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea - Lucero de Vivanco Roca Rey: Entre demonios y pisadiablos: Imaginario apocalíptico en la narrativa peruana - Niall Binns: Una tierra cada vez más baldía. La evolución del imaginario...