Médicos escritores en España, 1885-1955

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...

"This new English translation of Canaima should be welcomed by all readers of Gallegos. In addition to Kirkland's translation (based on Charles Minguet's 1991 critique of the novel in Spanish), work contains his engaging and provocative translator's essay

La prisión del amor y otros ensayos narrativos explora la relación entre la literatura y la vida; propone al lector un viaje por la condición humana a través de la revisión de algunas de las obras más destacadas de la literatura moderna. De Hernán Lara Zavala, ganador del Premio Real Academia Española. Un viaje por la condición humana a través del análisis y la celebración de algunas de las mayores obras de la literatura moderna. La inagotable variedad de la vida es la materia de las obras literarias. (Sin amor no habría polvo enamorado.) Pero lo contrario es igualmente cierto:...

This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the work of two US-American translators, Alice Stone Blackwell and Isaac Goldberg, it is the first study to offer a modern history of the amateur translator as subject of resistance and cultural mediator between the two regions.