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Ana Tarambana quisiera ser actriz y escritor. Se mete en líos cuando trata de ayudar a un amigo con la ortografía.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

La imagen de Ernest Hemingway en la barrera, con boina y la mirada puesta en el ruedo, ha llegado a ser un tópico en el recuerdo colectivo del autor en España, aunque no es una fiel representación de lo que era para los españoles de esa época el norteamericano. Después de muchas décadas sin conocer la narrativa del Premio Nobel de 1954, los españoles empezaron a leer sus obras en los años cincuenta y los críticos y escritores a analizarla y valorarla. Sin olvidar su afición por los toros y su imagen popular, este libro documenta la recepción de la obra del norteamericano en la...

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...