Huon de Burdeos

Según lo señala el mismo autor, “este no es un libro de historia de la literatura, ni de crítica literaria, como tampoco un texto didáctico. No se hallará, pues, aquí un estudio completo ni de la poesía, ni de la novela, ni del teatro, ni del ensayo entre nosotros, sino, descartado todo lo anterior, lo que resta”. Esta obra, en la que Ramón Illán Bacca despliega su particular estilo narrativo, la integran una serie de estudios académicos, crónicas y artículos realizados en diferentes fechas y con diversos fines, a los que les une el tema de la vida literaria en Barranquilla...

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...

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

Una rigurosa investigación sobre la agrupación religiosa más importante y poderosa en nuestro país