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Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

La incorporación de la llamada generación millenial al ámbito de la literatura en general y de la poesía en particular, ha provocado un cambio en los modos de producción y recepción del poema. Los jóvenes utilizan ahora las herramientas digitales como algo inherente a su cotidianeidad, como la fórmula para intercomunicarse con el mundo (la amistad en ese entorno virtual se mide ahora en número de seguidores o de likes), especialmente en contextos no formales que al final son los que sustancian el día a día. Y con esos parámetros miran también la literatura. Las estructuras de...

This book provides an overview of the main routes and trends that the Mexican theater journeyed in the twentieth century. It specially seeks to link the texts, the ideas about the scene, the way of acting, the sense of direction and the public of that time. Therefore, its about approaching through different points of view to an integrated perspective of the theatrical phenomenon in Mexico over a century staging, text and society.

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.