En camas separadas

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

La autora estudia el pensamiento social y político de Marietta de Veintemilla (Ecuador 1858-1907), Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Perú, 1845-1909) y Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico 1879-1922), revelando sus aportes a la cuestión nacional de sus respectivos países.

Esta obra colectiva, profundiza en historias que promueven la inclusión social de familias homoparentales integradas por niño/as y dos padres o dos madres, así como historias que reflejan a personajes masculinos y femeninos que bien rompen con estereotipos de género, o bien no se adaptan a los estereotipos masculinos o femeninos que se espera de ello/as. Partiendo de este planteamiento, se identifican las estrategias verbales y visuales, intertextuales y sinergias intermodales de las que se sirven autores e ilustradores para crear discursos progresivos e inclusivos desde un enfoque...