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This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the work of two US-American translators, Alice Stone Blackwell and Isaac Goldberg, it is the first study to offer a modern history of the amateur translator as subject of resistance and cultural mediator between the two regions.

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

During the 20th century in Mexico, Mexican literati formed literary groups and created new movements in poetry, short story, and essay centered around significant literary journals. This book is a study and analysis of the literary journal El Hijo Prûdigo and the generation of the early 1940s which brought Mexico into literary prominence. Outstanding collaborators of El Hijo Prûdigo include Octavio Paz, Agustin Y- Rò Rez, Josè R Vasconcelos, Alfonso Reyes, Josè R Revueltaz, and Francisco Rojas Gonzalez. This study also offers a complete critical indexing of the journal's contents.