Mi hermano el gigante

A sus setenta años, la prestigiosa periodista se descubre a si misma preguntándose si es feminista. El camino hasta encontrar la respuesta es un espejo al que deberían asomarse todos los lectores. En este lúcido ensayo, Alma Guillermoprieto se descubre interrogándose a sí misma sobre su feminismo. Su duda es a la vez un recorrido por su pensamiento, sus recuerdos y una serie de vivencias que van resignificándose a la luz del actual resurgimiento de la revolución de las mujeres: el #MeToo, las nuevas masculinidades, la ética. Con su conocimiento excepcional de la realidad de América...

This collection of essays presents views on Don Quijote by noted Latin American philosophers, historians, sociologists, poets, and novelists. It intends to make the student of Hispanic culture aware of the profound love and admiration that Hispanic America has always demonstrated toward Cervantes and his masterpiece. Until now, the contributions of Latin American intellectuals to Cervantine studies have largely been ignored in publications in the United States. Written in Spanish, this text will be useful to the student and scholar of Hispanic literature and Latin American Studies.

An elucidation in Spanish of the dramatic intentions and accomplishments of the two best imitators of the inspired craftsmanship of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this is the first monograph to be published on Rojas Zorilla and Moreto for at least two decades. Following an introductory section, in which she discusses and compares the differing attitudes and methods of the two dramatists, the author concentrates on their respective achievements in the genres which they practiced with enthusiasm and ability. Among the comedies and serious secular plays selected for analysis are not only their...

In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.