Engaños deste siglo y historia sucedida en nuestros tiempos 1615

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Este libro establece un novedoso análisis e interpretación del Bhagavad Gita que aporta otra visión acerca de su concepción e importancia a partir de la revelación de las claves dramatúrgicas ocultas en sus páginas, exponiéndose el modo en que permitieron su escritura, a la vez que se desvela cómo ellas son portadoras de una teoría para el desarrollo de la invención artística y literaria. Desde este hallazgo el autor demuestra la existencia de principios universales que sustentan y posibilitan la creación. Esta circunstancia convierte a este volumen en una original poética...

Sze's poetry is bold and versatile and brings together "disparate realms of experience." -The New Yorker