Escritura e imagen en Hispanoamérica

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

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...

En la exposición antológica de Eduardo Chillida que tuvo lugar en Madrid en 1973, Clara Janés conoce al escultor y se inicia entre ellos un diálogo sobre la creación artística que seguirá indefinidamente. En uno de sus encuentros posteriores, Chillida propone a Clara hacer un libro juntos. Pasarán diecinueve años hablando del libro, que, finalmente, se materializará con el título de La indetenible quietud en 1998. Clara, que cree en el azar, celebra esa larga espera, que intensificó su amistad con Chillida y la llevó a captar lo que movía su impulso creativo y a ver sus nexos,...

Les veus dissidents s'han deixat sentir en cada fase de la història nord-americana, generant sempre instàncies de resistència al poder i posant en qüestió definicions interessades i hegemòniques de la identitat nacional. Aquest volum pretén explorar el passat, present i futur de la dissidència 'fonamentalment a partir de les seues representacions culturals' a fi d'entendre el que el passat pot dir-nos sobre la realitat nord-americana del segle XXI, al seu torn, com aquesta realitat ens ajuda a desvetllar les arrels de la seva història nacional.