Aníbal Núñez, la voz inexpugnable

En este segundo tomo se aborda el periodo especialmente complejo de Brasil que va de 1930 a 1936 en el que Reyes tuvo que sortear las complicaciones políticas derivadas del inicio de la dictadura de Getulio Vargas, al mismo tiempo que insiste en la promoción de la cultura y el intercambio de ideas.

A través de un diálogo crítico en el que se entrecruzan diversas disciplinas y la crítica previa, este estudio invita al lector a profundizar en los modos como la literatura preserva instancias de la memoria colectiva y contribuye a que no se olviden situaciones que es preciso reconocer y continuar evaluando.

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...