Para animarse a leer a sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Las claves de las primeras literaturas burguesas a partir del estudio de una serie de discursos segregados de la temática animista y racionalista del siglo XVI.

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...

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.

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.