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This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...

A nadie sorprende que se diga que un gran escritor es un mentiroso, y Anton Chéjov no es la excepción. Pero en esta colección de ensayos, que enlaza a diez médicos escritores que se expresan en lengua española, el engaño tiene que ver con una verdad incontrovertible, la muerte, y con la forma en que la literatura la enfrenta y la exorciza. Libros de Luis Marcelino Gómez, Manuel Zapata Olivella, Luis Martín-Santos, Felipe Trigo, Pío Baroja, Antonio María Flórez, Julio Castedo, Carlos Chernov, Orlando Mejía Rivera y Basilio Sánchez son sometidos a una lectura doblemente humanista,...

Poems describe the experiences of a Mexican immigrant adjusting to life in a large American city, the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo in early twentieth century Paris, the sight of Mexico City in the distance, and other subjects.

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...