Soledad Acosta de Samper y el discurso letrado de género, 1853-1881

Durante el siglo XIX el alma romántica, en la cercanía del espíritu positivista, produjo nuevas formas de figurar el mundo, formas contradictorias pero plenas de hallazgos mecánicos y literarios. En esta obra la autora reflexiona sobre la maquinaria práctica y el andamiaje intelectual de los primeros ilusionistas y sus conexiones con un puñado de autores que transformaron la sensibilidad poética de la cultura occidental: Nerval, Balzac, Mallarmé y Rimbaud.

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...

La literatura cubana del exilio, en un principio rechazada por la crítica y por los ambientes universitarios, más por razones políticas que intelectuales o académicas, ha acabado por ocupar el lugar que le corresponde. A través de la obra y del itinerario vital de tres escritores exiliados ?Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy y Reinaldo Arenas-, se afirma la especificidad de esta literatura, su relación con lo que se escribía en la isla, así como sus diferencias respecto a las otras expresiones literarias de la diáspora latinoamericana.

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...