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...

Una selva de palabras: Literaturas indígenas contemporáneas de Brasil, Guatemala y Colombia trata de las voces indígenas que han irrumpido en el campo de la literatura, en consonancia con los avances y logros del movimiento indígena de las últimas cinco décadas. Con el fin de impulsar sus luchas, los indígenas crearon una "intelligentsia" letrada ─líderes que aprendieron las lenguas coloniales y la lectura y la escritura─, empezando a escribir y a dejar oír su voz en escenarios locales, regionales, nacionales e internacionales. En este trasegar, obtuvieron importantes derechos...

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...

La semiótica es el estudio de toda clase de signos: palabras, imágenes, sonidos, gestos y objetos; es decir, de toda realidad que colocamos en lugar de otra. Los signos, además, forman parte de un sistema que les otorga significado. Este libro, un gran tratado de semiótica para universitarios, profundiza las teorías estructurales sobre los signos y los significados.

Language-as signifier and signified-serves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies.