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Pensamiento rapido es un registro idoneo y vertiginoso, voraz y continuo de diversas -y muchas veces contradictorias- versiones de la realidad. Como en todos sus libros anteriores, Tomas Abraham pone en aprieto supuestos y convenciones de la filosofia y de otras disciplinas afines y no tanto.En este, sin embargo, mas que nunca, desafia cualquier limitacion o tirania de los generos y arma un sistema de ataque a los temas que la permanencia parece expulsar y la actualidad disimular.Mezcla brusca y agilisima de un periodismo y ensayismo de sus modalidades mas dignas, aguda percepcion de los...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Discusses how Soriano established himself by eloquently combining genres. The prose will unmask Argentina's ethical and political corruption during the period of history called The Dirty War.