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Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...

Desde narraciones poéticas hasta cuentos con referente real, a veces metafísico. Un libro con mucho contenido disperso, como dispersos son los caminos del miserable que lo escribió. En el presente manuscrito, cada página es como un espejo, pero en ninguno de estos te verás igual, aun cuando lleves la misma ropa de ayer, el mismo corte de pelo o como sea que fuere. En unos te contemplarás sabio, en otros, necio, no importa, el caso es que tienes que observarte en cada uno de los espejos, sin dejar uno solo; entonces ya puedes hacer la suma o la resta para ver qué tan sabio o qué tan...

This book presents a panoramic view of contemporary Chilean literature from an aesthetic and ideological perspective in connection with the country's recent history.Offers in-depth interviews with representatives of five generations of Chilean writers