Daniel Cosío Villegas:

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This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this...

Responsabilidades y resistencias. Memorias de vecinos de la dictadura aborda el problema de la responsabilidad colectiva ante la última dictadura argentina (1976-1983). La temática tiene en la experiencia europea del nazismo un precedente ineludible: las reflexiones de Karl Jaspers y Hannah Arendt al respecto siguen siendo una lectura obligatoria. En la Argentina, la conducta del "hombre/mujer común y corriente" bajo dictadura fue una preocupación presente ya durante el transcurso del último golpe de Estado. El campo del arte gestó un pensamiento propio sobre la sociedad argentina bajo...

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...