La estética de Ramiro Pinilla

What would you do if you found out you only had months to live? In Jenny Downham's debut novel, Tessa must grapple with this situation. This book will make all readers reflect upon the true value of things.

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...

Los acontecimientos en torno a la unificación de Alemania de 1990 no sólo transformaron el mundo; al mismo tiempo desataron un auténtico revulsivo en la producción artística de Alemania, que motivó la aparición de un nuevo panorama literario. Las nuevas circunstancias propiciaron el surgimiento de la denominada literatura de la unificación, en la que destaca una narrativa rica y de extraordinaria diversidad que ha dado un importante impulso y una nueva vitalidad a la literatura alemana. Sustentada en un cambio de mentalidad y generacional, la narrativa de la unificación se ocupa de...

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...