Estudios Literarios, Vol. 2

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

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.

En múltiples viajes y estancias en las Antillas, México y Cuba, a lo largo de toda la primera mitad del siglo, Gabriela Mistral, la pluma chilena más latinoamericana, bebió del acervo martiano toda su intuición liberacionista y todo su verbo originario. Es lo que contiene este volumen: parte importante de lo que Gabriela escribió sobre el poeta, sobre su palabra educadora, sobre su moral irreductible, sobre sus intuiciones políticas, a veces en cartas, a veces en versos, a veces en prosa o en ensayos, pero siempre con devoción fraternal, siempre con agudas e iluminadas deliberaciones, ...

Book offers a close philosophical look at José Enrique Rodó's ARIELISM, an important component of modernism in Latin American history. The images of Ariel and Caliban come to life as the author analyz-es Rodó's book, Ariel, in context of history and literature. In the face of general Latin American failure, the author looks for answers in cultural mechanisms which are inherent to Latin American history.