Fabliaux III

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...

Gabriel Lobo Laso de la Vega (1555-1615) es poco conocido en la actualidad. Pero en su época era un poeta con renombre y respetado por Cervantes, Lope de Vega, López Maldonado y Padilla. Este libro intenta dar nueva luz sobre su arte y la visión de España a través de sus obras impresas. El primer ensayo estudia temas grecorromanos del Romancero de 1587 aplicables alegóricamente a la España de Felipe II. Este romancero describe la España anterior a la Armada Invencible con optimismo. Pero en el Manojuelo de Romances (1601), Lobo la ve acosada por enemigos exteriores e interiores y por...

Recopilatorio en un solo volumen de tres cuentos de princesas: - El baúl mágico. - La princesa Jimena. - Lucía la princesa valiente.

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...