Exilios femeninos

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...

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

An elucidation in Spanish of the dramatic intentions and accomplishments of the two best imitators of the inspired craftsmanship of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this is the first monograph to be published on Rojas Zorilla and Moreto for at least two decades. Following an introductory section, in which she discusses and compares the differing attitudes and methods of the two dramatists, the author concentrates on their respective achievements in the genres which they practiced with enthusiasm and ability. Among the comedies and serious secular plays selected for analysis are not only their...

Este libro estudia las comedias hagiograficas, o comedias de santos, las cuales fueron populares durante el Siglo de Oro espanol. Utiliza diversas fuentes tales como historia de la iglesia, filosofia, hagiografia, teoria dramatica y estudios existentes sobre los dramaturgos y las comedias del Siglo de Oro. El libro analiza las comedias hagiograficas como un subgenero con caracteristicas y convenciones propias; crea una tipologia de santos: y clasifica las obras de acuerdo con esta tipologia. Es, tambien, el primer estudio comparativo de las comedias de santos de Lope, Tirso y Calderon."