Biografía y textualidades, naturaleza y subjetividad

A pathbreaking account of the influence and context of Andalusian life and art in the poetry and drama of Federico Garcia Lorca. Andalusia was the central feature and influence in the life and writings of the twentieth-century author, musician, and artist, Federico Garcia Lorca. Rooted in his native region, which both captivated and shaped him, Lorca maintained that "The better a writer learns how to interpret the landscape, the greater the artist he will be." Blessed with an acute historical sense of a region where the past is both present and enduring, Lorca proved himself sensitive and...

En este mundo globalizado de migraciones e hibridaciones, la comida no solo es un conjunto de alimentos sino además, la propia acción de comer o la reunión de personas en torno a, implica una mezcla de culturas, sabores, pero también de rituales y costumbres.

En avril 1913, Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) débarquait au Gabon, à la mission protestante de Lambaréné. En Europe, il est aujourd’hui quasiment oublié ; on l’associe encore parfois à son prix Nobel de la paix, obtenu en 1952, et à l’hôpital qu’il créa à Lambaréné. Son image de bon médecin blanc paternaliste, portant le casque colonial, a contribué à l’éclipser presque totalement. Derrière l’argument selon lequel il n’y aurait plus rien à dire sur Schweitzer se dessine un trait de pensée caractéristique de l’Occident qui croit à une histoire inventée, et...

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...