Violencia y marginalidad en la literatura hispanoamericana

La presente monografía de María José Alonso Veloso, que se suma a otros trabajos suyos sobre Quevedo, se centra en el estilo de “Terpsícore” y tiene como objetivo mostrar los mecanismos de que se sirvió el escritor para convertir en literatura culta y artificiosa formas tradicionales y populares.

Variaciones lógicas de la memoria, de Uriel Cassiani de Palenque, es un libro de cuentos cuyo narrador no se deja vencer por las tramas supuestas o reveladas, ya que realiza un contraste en el que estallan los estereotipos ficcionales. Estos cuentos confrontan ficciones, tramándolas de forma contradictoria o contraponiéndolas por congeladas. En un cuento, un personaje indolente y reparador de electrodomésticos, altera su entorno al dificultar el pronto arreglo del aparato central de la bodega de cuentos de la vida urbana, el televisor, el proveedor casero de ficciones de nuestro tiempo....

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...