El Martín Fierro como literatura de denuncia

Una rigurosa investigación sobre la agrupación religiosa más importante y poderosa en nuestro país

El Bosquejillo de José Mor de Fuentes (1836) constituye un excepcional documento de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y del primer tercio del XIX. Su autor, testigo excepcional de la época, escribió una autobiografía que da cumplida noticia de muchos hechos históricos que conoció de primera mano y ofrece una interesante visión de la cultura coetánea. Con un estilo muy vivo, «próximo a la acción», Mor compromete sus opiniones con juicios que rompen algunos tópicos repetidos en los manuales y ofrece revelaciones sorprendentes: luchas fratricidas entre banderías literarias,...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

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...