Mas Alla de los Pilares de la Tierra / Beyond the Pillars of the Earth

Algunas prácticas artísticas latinoamericanas contemporáneas trabajan con formas de lo impersonal y anónimo e insisten en interrogar la intensidad de una experiencia que es irreductible a un yo y que se vuelve instancia de interrogación y exploración. Obras de Teixeira Coelho, Veronica Stigger, Diamela Eltit, Rosângela Rennó, Gian Paolo Minelli, Sergio Chejfec, Edgardo Dobry, Marília Garcia, Carlos Cociña, Patricio Guzmán, Jonathas de Andrade y Kleber Mendonça Filho elaboran formas de acceder –de narrar, de exhibir, de discutir– a una vida anónima que viene a reemplazar la...

En Las renegadas, Lina Meruane propone una nueva lectura para la poesía de Gabriela Mistral Lina Meruane selecciona, reordena con atrevimiento y prologa a la Premio Nobel de Literatura, permitiendo leer de nuevos modos una poesía que ostenta el rango de lo clásico. «La poesía dialogante de la Mistral reniega del poder del territorio, entabla una relación fluida con la tierra y nos deja como legado la posibilidad de acabar con los viejos modelos de sociedad», dice Meruane en su prólogo. Y en efecto aquí vemos cómo la rebeldía, la extranjería, la incomodidad y la aspereza son los...

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...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...