Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en América Latina

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...

Ofelia and Amoke appear to be complete opposites. The only things they have in common are an elderly, eccentric author named Virginia Wonnacott, the Hiraeth Association, and the feeling that something is missing from their lives. When Virginia offers Ofelia a job as her personal assistant, the lives of the two girls merge. Through conversations, used books, letters, and early morning Whatsapp messages, the girls discover a future they did not think existed as well as their feelings toward one another.

"Un recorrido a lo largo de diferentes cuadros que forman parte de la pintura, pasando por artistas como Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Dalí o Picasso, con los que descubrirás el arte."--P. [4] of cover.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...