América Latina palabra y cultura

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Los diferentes países que conviven en Colombia bajo la mirada de William Ospina Admirables ejemplos de inspiración y admirables ejemplos de laboriosidad ha producido la poesía en Colombia. Las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias, ,el más ambicioso poema de la Conquista de América; el Nocturno de José Asunción Silva, que cambió la respiración de la poesía en nuestra lengua; clamores hondos y estremecedores como los de Barba Jacob; luminosas ironías como las de Luis Carlos López; fiestas endiabladas con el lenguaje como las de León de Greiff; intensas y agobiantes selvas...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...