Gabriela Mistral

Esta obra recoge una selección de artículos y textos más o menos "urgentes" publicados por el autor en diferentes medios a lo largo de más de una década. No se trata de una compilación caprichosa y más allá de su ordenación cronológica y de su carácter fragmentario, responde a un doble propósito: el de de mirar al mundo de las letras, por un lado; y el de observar la realidad circundante desde las letras: desde los libros que como muletas le han venido acompañando en este peregrinaje por la cultura y por la vida. Llamaban los griegos hermesiano a todo aquello que encontraban...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

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 trabajo se analizan comparativamente los "Bildungsromane femeninos" de la escritora mexicana Carmen Boullosa y de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. This work is a comparative analysis of the female Bildungsromane of Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa and Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros.