La reinvención de la memoria

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Hillary Rodham Clinton es uno de los personajes más importantes de la política estadounidense. Ex primera dama y actual senadora por Nueva York, nos cuenta en su biografía los apasionantes ocho años que pasó en la Casa Blanca junto a Bill Clinton, sin ocultar los malos momentos, como el caso Whitewater o el escándalo de Mónica Lewinsky.

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.