Manuel Puig

A classical one indespensable of the feminism postcolonial. It translated for the first time al Spanish, Siniti Namjoshi offers an ingenious one reelaboración of fairytales, of Greek myths and sancritos. Through its histories, shows like the alegoria can constitute a takes deconciencia criticizes always open al questioning of the oficialidad. A gift to reflect on the power and the abuses, extremely necessary in the present times

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 ...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...