Morir es como un cuento

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?

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...

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...

No ha habido en el siglo XX un género de canción más gustado y degustado por los hispanohablantes. Nacido cubano y renacionalizado mexicano, el bolero es hoy una música universal y todos los países de nuestra área lingüística han sido sus consumidores, bastantes de ellos sus creadores. No hay duda de que ha sido y es, en mayor medida que otras, la gran canción latinoamericana. Pero, además, es un baile, el más democrático (y pecaminoso, en su día) de todos los de parejas enlazadas, y una forma de poesía que entronca con la más ilustre tradición lírica occidental: aquella que, ...