El Hispanismo en Norte-América

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...

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.

Historias del Crepúsculo y de lo Desconocido reúne seis relatos que giran en torno a lo que podríamos denominar el mundo sobrenatural y esotérico: Así, John Barrington Cowles recrea el tema del mal encarnado en un ser atractivo y diabólico. El gran experimento de Keinplatz narra en clave de humor las imprevisibles consecuencias de un experimento de hipnosis. Lote núm. 249 refiere los extraordinarios acontecimientos sucedidos en el Old College de Oxford como resultado de las extrañas manipulaciones de un egiptólogo sin escrúpulos sobre una momia egipcia. La mano parda nos enfrenta...