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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...

Las dictaduras militares de la Argentina y el Brasil, cada una con sus particularidades, impulsaron un proceso de modernización autoritaria que acarreó la pérdida de derechos inalienables sin siquiera alcanzar la utopía que dicha modernidad había imaginado. En la literatura de aquellos años es posible leer la desconfianza y el desaliento ante el paradigma moderno, que no condujeron al silencio ni a la inacción, sino a búsquedas artísticas alternativas, nuevas formas de resistencia. En La experiencia opaca, Florencia Garramuño analiza las prácticas de escritura en las culturas...

Luke y Lizzy ya sabían que en el Parque de Pánico iban a correr un gran peligro, pero no se imaginaban cuánto. En el parque vive Amenaza, un malvado de dos caras piensa tenerlos atrapados ahí para siempre. Pronto se enteran de que ¡alguien que les ha estado engañando desde el principio!

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...