Confrontación de poderes

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

"Extensively researched exploration of the emergence of Zapatismo. Presents Zapatismo as a phenomenon transcending local boundaries and reflecting national developments"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

Escrito está: como la otra, la historia de la literatura abunda en enigmas, pero conviene añadir que también estos suelen amonedarse en forma de tópicos. Así, en torno a la propia noción de «literatura hispanoamericana» y sus derivados, se han acumulado numerosas retóricas vacías, frente a las cuales el presente libro propone, de entrada, la consideración de diversas ocasiones en las que la existencia de la «literatura hispanoamericana» ha sido negada explícita y categóricamente por algunos de sus nombres propios más representativos (desde Martí hasta Borges, pasando por...