Pequeño Gran Hombre

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...

Original estudio que aborda el romance no como un género de oral, sino como un conjunto dinámico y variable de textos que evolucionan y se modifican durante su transmisión impresa.

Esta obra quisiera mostrar una imagen nueva de la literatura española: un panorama no compuesto ya de resúmenes y catálogos de datos, sino formado por las mejores páginas que la crítica moderna, desde las perspectivas más originales y reveladoras, ha dedicado a los aspectos fundamentales de la historia literaria de España, de las jarchas a nuestros días. El núcleo de «Historia y crítica de la literatura española» es una selección de los trabajos de mayor importancia sobre cada tema publicados en los últimos decenios y aquí dispuestos sistemáticamente para proporcionar una...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...