La escuela del desencanto

Este estudio, ampliamente documentado, somete la obra del poeta José María Heredia (1803-1839) a una rigurosa relectura, tomando como punto de partida la muy comentada "melancolicidad" de este autor cubano.

A pesar de la gravitacion que el radioteatro tuvo en nuestro pais y su importancia en la formacion de una cultura de masas con imbricaciones en culturas tradicionales y populares, la recuperacion de la labor de sus protagonistas es una tarea pendiente. En este sentido EL RADIOTEATRO es un trabajo pionero que tiene, ademas, el valor de contribuir al conocimiento de las culturas regionales: en este caso, el norte de la Patagonia, zona por la que se desplazo Jorge Edelman en sus giras. El formato de historia de vida con que se presenta el texto es el corolario de una serie de entrevistas...

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...

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...