La poética del esbozo

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

Estudio crítico de la literatura contemporánea chinoamericana. Desde los procesos de construcción de conceptos tales como género, raza e identidad étnica, la explosión nos conduce a una teoría de la constelación de diferencias lejanas a la intolerancia y cercana al mestizaje de culturas.

Las letras y Latinoamérica se comunican en estos textos. Historia, identidad, paternidad, muerte y crítica son los temas que derivan y lo aquí reunido representa el ejercicio de una psicoanalítica de las letras en la América llamada “moderna”.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...