Pablo quiere ser capitán

A lo largo de cinco siglos se han producido, mediante la labor de "intelectuales progresistas," literaturas indigenistas, negristas y gauchescas. Pero no debiera olvidarse que, por derecho propio, tambien han existido (y no siempre de modo oral) las versiones de los vencidos y oprimidos: unas literaturas (y voces) indias, negras y gauchas. El presente estudio intenta desentranar cuales fueron, mas alla de las historias oficiales, las diferentes voces ocultas de la "negritud" en el Rio de la Plata y la comunidad nacional argentina.

This collection of seventeen essays on Spanish Golden Age and Spanish American Colonial Poetry unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry. It places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, and looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate the key terms of its title, balancing panoramic approaches to questions of genre with the insights afforded by detailed readings of individual texts.

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...