En camas separadas

Si partimos del supuesto que tanto la escuela como la asignatura de la Historia han constituido espacios privilegiados en los procesos de transmisión del pasado y en el establecimiento de los sentidos del mismo, cabe preguntarse si es que las luchas por la memoria del pasado dictatorial se han manifestado en la escuela y cómo lo han hecho. Por lo tanto, el presente libro parte de las siguientes preguntas: ¿cuáles fueron las representaciones de la última dictadura militar que circularon desde la redemocratización del país en la enseñanza de la historia? ¿Con qué selecciones del...

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...

Este estudio, ampliamente documentado, somete la obra del poeta José María Heredia (1803-1839) a una rigurosa relectura, tomando como punto de partida la muy comentada "melancolicidad" de este autor cubano.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...