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PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...

En 1992 se le concedió a la escritora cubana Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997) uno de los mayores galardones que pueda recibir un autor que escriba en español, el Premio de Literatura Miguel de Cervantes. A partir de esta fecha se multiplicaron los estudios teóricos sobre su obra y ella misma engrosará sus publicaciones con nuevos libros; sin embargo, son pocas las investigaciones que engloben su producción poética, narrativa y ensayística. Este libro ofrece al lector un amplio recorrido que abarca tanto el contexto literario en el que ella escribió como diversos análisis sobre su...