Friedrich Schiller

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...

Indaga la relación entre la emergencia de la ciudad americana como realidad geopolítica y la construcción del ideal utópico en diversas escrituras latinoamericanas, atendiendo a la diversidad que entraña el ideario utópico en lo ficcional, ideológico e intelectual, y a la configuración de una sociedad perfecta e idealizada.

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...

Eva is a 15-year-old girl with few friends and low self-esteem. She is convinced thin girls have it easier. She doesn't think that she fits in at school or at home. When she meets Michel and Franziska, things begin to look up and they help her realize that feeling good about yourself should not be tied to a scale.