Product Description: This extensive essay by William Rowe aims to assist students and teachers of literature to consider the verbal texts within the larger field of cultural practices. It is a movement of concepts between theoretical frameworks and texts, beginning with the last instead of favoring the first ones...read more

Product Description: Dentro de la Cátedra Alfonso Reyes del TEC, en 2006, Julio Ortega presentó un nuevo modelo de diálogo para revisar las fuerzas de la colonización: la construcción de un sujeto de las reapropiaciones, el intercambio y la mezcla, hecho por las prácticas culturales y configurado por la diferencia política de las opciones latinoamericanas...read more

Essays offer a poststructuralist approach to each of Garcia Marquez's major works, and are accompanied by his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

Product Description: Los ensayos reunidos en este volumen definen el panorama actual del hispanismo internacional, que se define no como la preponderancia de una nación si no como el escenario interdisciplinario de diálogo trasatlántico entre las culturas del mundo hispanofónico...read more

Product Description: A collection of evocative stories, poems, and essays, this compendium combines subtle intellect with charming playfulness to present a fresh perspective on such universal themes as language, duality, and the origins of creativity...read more

Product Description: Esta muestra del nuevo cuento trasatlántico incluye a ocho jóvenes narradoras (de Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, España y México), que convocan al lector a formar parte de su proyecto innovador. Si el motivo fue el Foro de Novísimos Narradores que anualmente organiza Julio Ortega para la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, la idea de proponer una suma de sus cuentos en este volumen va más allá del foro y se plantea como un acto de anticipación narrativa, que hace presente el valor intrínseco de este excepcional grupo de escritoras...read more

Collects interviews with twenty-one contemporary Latin American authors in which they offer personal revelations and discuss the critics, fellow authors, publishers, politics, religion, bilingualism, and other topics.

Product Description: The last novel by Peruvian writer Jose Maria Arguedas, set in the booming port city of Chimbote, is an expression of the human costs of rapid modernization. Tragically, the malaise of the society is reflected in the literal self-destruction of the author, a process chronicled in four diaries woven into the novel itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A remarkable assortment of short fiction from Central and South America features 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World' by Gabriel Garcfa Mßrquez, Jorge Luis Borges's 'The Aleph,' and other works by such distinguished authors as Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortßzar, and Clarice Lispector. Original. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

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