Modelos dialógicos en la narrativa de Benito Pérez Galdós

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...

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,...

In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.

El aforismo es el quantum del pensamiento, un ensayo brevísimo (el ensayo es un comentario en prosa sobre cualquier tema). Resume en dos líneas la introducción, el desarrollo y la conclusión. Es tan breve, que muchas veces la conclusión cae fuera del texto, justo en la testa del lector. Está sujeto a varias tensiones: no puede ser tan extenso que se confunda con el ensayo breve (dos párrafos ya es demasiado) ni tan breve que se vuelva indescifrable, fragmento de haikú, jirón de frase, pista de adivinanza. No puede ser muy obvio porque quiere ser moderno, sugerir, no explicar. Pero...