Crónicas inexplicables

December, 2004. Gumaro de Dios kills the time with El Peln. The heat is suffocating, the mosquitoes hum. The afternoon breaks out and sometime in the night a voice whispers in the Cannibal's ear. The residents of the Mayan Riviera find out about it at dawn. The rumor that travels across the streets freezes blood and skin of one person after another. He scratched the bones and even used the viscera, with which he prepared an exquisite broth. The trial is succinct. Nobody wants to listen to the Cannibal. He is a butcher, a dangerous criminal, a repellent being. Alejandro Almazn approaches...

There is a ghost in the girls' bathroom at school! It's the coolest thing that has ever happened there until the teachers find out. Will Ivy and Bean find a way to get the ghost out of the bathroom? Don't put anything past these two friends.

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

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...

Desafiando el olvido: escritoras italianas inéditas es una recopilación de estudios desarrollados por especialistas procedentes de diferentes áreas de conocimiento, implicados en la misión de reconstruir el canon literario. En el caso italiano, este ha demostrado, a lo largo de la historia, ser esencialmente conservador y estar influenciado por una visión patriarcal del mundo. Esta perspectiva, que ha relegado a la mujer a un segundo plano, ha favorecido que gran parte de las escritoras italianas tampoco hayan tenido la repercusión que merecían fuera de las fronteras nacionales, como...