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This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

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...

Un escritor en la tierra presenta diecinueve ensayos que muestran una lectura apasionada de la obra de José Revueltas. Releer a uno de los más grandes escritores mexicanos del siglo pasado con los ojos críticos de ahora es el propósito que busca este libro y para lograrlo reúne algunas de las voces más conocedoras de la vida y obra del autor duranguense, entre las que se encuentran Elena Poniatowska, Philippe Cheron, David Huerta, José Manuel Mateo, Álvaro Ruiz Abreu y José Woldenberg abordando, cada uno y a su manera, problemas no sólo literarios, sino también históricos,...

Hombres de acción: conquistadores de imperios, exploradores de tierras incógnitas, viajeros de la frontera, revolucionarios, estadistas que transforman sociedades, fundadores de religiones, delincuentes, seductores de leyenda... Dejando al margen juicios morales y santurronerías hipócritas, todos ellos despiertan esa admiración y esa envidia que nacen de la reverencia, secreta o declarada, que rinde la especie humana a la fuerza de voluntad, a la capacidad de imponerse sobre el mundo que nos rodea y moldearlo a nuestro capricho. Cerrado el libro que cuenta las hazañas del gran hombre o...