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Pascual Duarte, campesino extremeño hijo de un alcohólico, nos cuenta su vida mientras espera su propia ejecución en la celda de los condenados a muerte. Víctima de una inexorable fatalidad, Pascual Duarte es un ser primitivo y elemental dominado por la violencia, única respuesta que conoce a la traición y al engaño. Pero esa siniestra apariencia no es más que la máscara que oculta su incapacidad para luchar contra la maldad de los demás y la desvalida impotencia que alberga en el fondo de su alma. La familia de Pascual Duarte ha ganado con los años fuerza y dramatismo y su...

Caló Orbis examines a Chicano language variety from a historical, social, ideological, and theoretical framework. It gathers information, on how the urban Chicano often reduces his/her experience into thematic contents of family, home, employment, education, religion. This book takes the reader into a semiotic point of view in order to bring a deeper awareness of the symbolic activity between language style and the speaker's attitude toward the urban experience. The perspective maintained is epistemological in the broadest sense, in that the inquiry includes lexical, poetical, philosophical...

Presents common English words, including contemporary terms related to the Internet and digital technology, with definitions, sentences to demonstrate usage, and Spanish translations, along with lists by category and tips for students.

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...