Literatura post-colonial en inglés

La novela se encuentra situada entre el año 1900 y 1959 del siglo XX. El texto se celebra en España (Galicia) y en La Habana (Cuba). Ambientado en un período de la historia de España muy poco conocido en el que se plasman las consecuencias que el sistema económico español trajo con respecto a la emigración a «hacer las Américas», sobre todo, en Cuba. Es la historia personal novelada de Bernardo en un contexto histórico y cultural de grandes tensiones personales y colectivas. La novela es realista con un tanto por ciento elevado de verdad que nos va introduciendo en una situación...

Two nuns conspire to create a fake miracle, in order to save their impoverished convent during the Spanish Inquisition.

This work features the best bibliography ever assembled on commonplace books and literature in English. The book focuses on writing, writers and the joys as well as travails of travel.

The textual and linguistic emphasis on the maternal body in the narrative fiction of Diamela Eltit is fundamental to understanding the critical challenge posed by her work in the Chilean context.

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...