Susan Glaspell y los Provincetown Players

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...

Durchgang durch die spanische Literaturgeschichte anhand von kurzen und besonders aussagekräftige literarische Formulierungen (etwa Beginn des Quijote). Die relativ kurzen Zitate sollen jeweils in eine kurze Nacherzählung eingebettet werden, die klar von den Interpretationsansätzen und den relevanten kultur-und literaturgeschichtlichen Kontexten, also Geistesgeschichte, Mediengeschichte und Geschichte der Poetik abgesetzt sind. Neu an dieser Literaturgeschichte ist auch, dass sie die galizische und die katalanische Literatur anhand von Schlüsselwerken mitberücksichtigt. Außerdem wird...

Mi patria, Venezuela, está padeciendo desde 1999 una de sus peores crisis en lo económico, social, político y cultural, a pesar de que en las casi dos décadas del régimen castro-chavista primero, durante el mandato del teniente coronel Hugo Chávez, y castro-chavismo-madurismo-militarismo desde el 14 de abril de 2013 cuando accedió irregularmente a la Presidencia de la República su sucesor, Nicolás Maduro Moros, de dudosa nacionalidad, el país tuvo los mayores ingresos económicos de toda su historia republicana a partir de 1830, masa dineraria que no fue empleada para mejorar la...

Eva is a 15-year-old girl with few friends and low self-esteem. She is convinced thin girls have it easier. She doesn't think that she fits in at school or at home. When she meets Michel and Franziska, things begin to look up and they help her realize that feeling good about yourself should not be tied to a scale.