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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En la actualidad prevalece la idea de que la historia colonial hispanoamericana y la historia global constituyen áreas de estudio con poca relación, gestadas en circunstancias historiográficas diferentes. La percepción de mundos distantes se magnifica cuando vemos que el espacio hispanoamericano no goza de una agenda propia en los estudios globales; usualmente, se le contextualiza en una literatura con marcada perspectiva eurocéntrica o sinocéntrica. La América española intenta reconocer la especificidad histórica que adquirió este gran espacio en el lento transcurrir del...

El Kojiki o Crónicas de antiguos hechos es la primera obra literaria de Japón. Aclamado como el gran relicario de los antiguos mitos, leyendas y canciones de la cultura japonesa, narra las tradiciones nacionales desde sus orígenes hasta el primer cuarto del siglo VII. Obra asentada firmemente en el puente brumoso que separa el mito de la historia, sus páginas abren la puerta a un mundo mágico poblado de dioses (los celestiales y los «terrenales»), de héroes y de seres humanos que animan con sus actos y palabras el inmenso retablo multicolor, dinámico y apasionante que anuncia los...