Le désordre et la vie

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...

Este libro, producto de una rigurosa investigación doctoral, plantea la hipótesis de que, además de la protesta femenina, en la obra de Marvel Moreno existe un discurso sobre el mestizaje en el Caribe colombiano. Este discurso narra los prejuicios de la alta sociedad barranquillera, provenientes de la Colonia, sobre la herencia mestiza y negra en los personajes.

Hijo de un comerciante de Liverpool asentado en la India, el escritor inglés Philip Meadows Taylor, nacido en 1808, publicó su primera obra, Confesiones de un asesino Thug, en 1839. No obstante esta primera entrega, en la que Meadows Taylor utiliza recursos propios de la ficción y de la literatura de aventuras para relatarnos unos poco menos que increíbles, aunque contrastados, hechos reales, su carrera literaria se centró en la novela picaresca de ambientación histórica, con títulos como Tippo Sultan, Ralph Darnell y Seeta, sobre la conquista inglesa de la India y las revueltas de...