Literatura y política

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...

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff’s poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and...

This book presents a panoramic view of contemporary Chilean literature from an aesthetic and ideological perspective in connection with the country's recent history.Offers in-depth interviews with representatives of five generations of Chilean writers

El bisturí inglés. Literatura de viajes e hispanismo en lengua inglesa reúne diversos estudios realizados por algunos de los más prestigiosos investigadores y especialistas. Comienza con una amplia introducción sobre el papel que estos autores tuvieron y tiene, en la valoración de lo español en el extranjero. Le siguen estudios sobre el carácter de los españoles, Andalucía en las guerras napoleónicas, el comienzo de la famosa “leyenda negra” y la relación entre curiosidad y conocimiento en los viajeros que vienen a España. La cuestión de las viajeras inglesas y la opinión...