Letras gauchas

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

Al principio de todo, los cuervos tenían un pelaje multicolor: eran rosas, lilas o verdes, a veces tenían topos o rayas según las diferentes familias. Los cuervos vivían juntos y felices, pero un día un muñeco de nieve hizo una pregunta fatídica: "¿Cómo

Este segundo volumen de Cien años de poesía es dedicado a las «otras» literaturas peninsulares. Quiere servir de puente entre las poesías en catalán, gallego y vasco y la lírica en castellano. Cada contribuyente ha seleccionado un poema representativo de un poeta elegido y nos acerca a su producción mediante la traducción del texto al castellano, en muchas casos, inédita hasta el presente. Las aproximaciones a la obra de los y las grandes poetas aquí antologados y analizados son de índole plural y procedencias diversas. No sólo, y en sentido estrictamente geográfico, porque los...

The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological...