Diccionario de ángeles y demonios

Este libro indaga en una desatendida obra cuyo estudio ofrece una perspectiva original sobre un período nacional de proyección continental: las novelas criollistas del escritor guatemalteco Virgilio Rodríguez Macal. En sus novelas Carazamba (1953), Jinayá (1956) y Guayacán (1962), el escritor adopta la estética criollista para postular una esencia autóctona guatemalteca fundamentada en el discurso de narradores que fungen de intérpretes de esa esencia gracias a un saber científico derivado de disciplinas como la antropología, la historiografía y la sociología. El análisis de esas ...

Este libro explora la representación de la mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), prominente líder anarquista española en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. This book explores the figure of the modern woman in the writings of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s.

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...

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...