El bisturí inglés

Un libro fondamentale che illustra la grande rilevanza internazionale della rivista Quaderni Ibero Americani fondata nel 1946. Il libro mette in evidenza gli straordinari contributi di un gran numero di intellettuali spagnoli che nel corso dei decenni hanno pubblicato sulla rivista - dai premi Nobel Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Camilo José Cela, Vicente Aleixandre, a poeti come Dámaso Alonso e intellettuali come Ramón Menéndez Pidal - e soprattutto approfondendo questi rapporti internazionali attraverso l’analisi e la riproduzione della...

Después de publicar Madame Putifar, Petrus Borel, el Licántropo (1809-1859) se hundió en el ostracismo al que le condenó la crítica del Segundo Imperio, poniendo una mordaza a su obra. Fueron los surrealistas los que desempolvaron a este «coloso» del romanticismo: André Breton, Paul Éluard y Louis Aragon, por ejemplo, hablaron de su aliento revolucionario, de su romanticismo frenético, de su parentesco con el marqués de Sade, de cuya vida y desventuras carcelarias se supuso que esta novela era una especie de guía. Pero Madame Putifar, la novela negra por excelencia de la...

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...

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...