UNA EXCURSIÓN A LOS INDIOS RANQUELES DE LUCIO V. MANSILLA

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.

Ribbans's analysis of such devices as the ambiguous role of the narrator, the use of free indirect style and direct dialogue, and the construction of distinctive ideolects leads to the heart of his study, the development of Galdos's characters.

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...

En este libro el autor propone desarrollar el discernimiento por analogía, que consiste en rescatar del inconsciente una vía clausurada de acercamiento a lo real. Una vía que estuvo abierta hace siglos para nuestros antepasados, pero que los imperativos de la empresa civilizadora occidental cerraron mediante una pedagogía unidimensional, en la que se formaron las masas ciudadanas desde el despuntar de la civilización industrial. El fundamento teórico de esta proposición procede de las investigaciones del psicólogo suizo alemán Karl Gustav Jung, quien, mediante la experimentación en...