El discurso del policial

"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.

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

El campo de estudio que abarca la literatura del exilio es sumamente amplio, teniendo en cuenta que este fenómeno es bastante frecuente en la época de la globalización. El exilio aparece vinculado a la crisis de nuestro tiempo: con la guerra moderna, el imperialismo-capitalismo salvaje y las imposiciones de los gobiernos totalitarios. Entre los procesos más dolorosos vividos en la historia reciente se encuentran los regímenes de facto durante la década de los setenta en el Cono Sur que dejaron miles de víctimas desaparecidas, torturadas, asesinadas, prisioneras y exiliadas. La...

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...