Esclavos, negros libres y bogas en la literatura del siglo XIX

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A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

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.

El libro analiza a Don Juan y a Segismundo desde un punto de vista aparentemente inhabitual: su existencia no ya como “literatura”, sino como mitos. El análisis del mito como tal implica su descomposición en elementos mínimos significativos o mitemas, y en espacios asimismo significativos en los que se disponen dichos mitemas. Así, pues, Don Juan, reducido a un conjunto de mitemas, repite de obra en obra sus singulares características. La mitología de (o en) Don Juan es multiplicación de sí misma, a la inversa de lo que ocurre en La vida es sueño que recoge y condensa un material ...