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Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

Este libro recoge tres obras de Enrique Bernardo Núñez, "Don Pablos en América," "Cubagua" y "La Galera de Tiberio," las cuales ahora se publican por primera vez en conjunto, constituyendo las mismas el centro del proyecto narrativo de este destacadísimo escritor venezolano. Estas obras, que fueran escritas entre las décadas de 1920 y 1930, invitan a una reconsideración historiográfica del aporte venezolano a la renovación narrativa continental del Siglo XX. Alejado tanto del regionalismo como de la incipiente beligerancia vanguardista, Enrique Bernardo Nuñez anticipó aspectos...

Simón Bolívar, Andrés Bello, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Rubén Darío y José Martí son las cinco figuras que Grínor Rojo elige tratar en este volumen, dedicado a la escritura clásica producida en América Latina durante el siglo XIX. Teniendo como centro de gravedad en cada uno de estos casos una pieza canónica, la Carta de Jamaica, el Discurso de instalación de la Universidad de Chile, O alienista, Azul… y Nuestra América, el capítulo respectivo interroga desde ella la obra completa del autor en cuestión. Pero no para repetir las lecturas tradicionales que existen a su...