El hambre en el mundo

En la actualidad prevalece la idea de que la historia colonial hispanoamericana y la historia global constituyen áreas de estudio con poca relación, gestadas en circunstancias historiográficas diferentes. La percepción de mundos distantes se magnifica cuando vemos que el espacio hispanoamericano no goza de una agenda propia en los estudios globales; usualmente, se le contextualiza en una literatura con marcada perspectiva eurocéntrica o sinocéntrica. La América española intenta reconocer la especificidad histórica que adquirió este gran espacio en el lento transcurrir del...

Como escribiera Jorge Luis Borges, quizás la historia universal no sea más que la entonación de un par de metáforas. La que ejercitan en este libro Bárbara Silva y Josefina Cabrera es aquella que busca representar el todo por una de sus partes. Así, en vez de plantear otro relato histórico ordenado, lineal y progresivo, las autoras nos muestran que desde un día cualquiera puede reconstruirse la sensibilidad y los hechos de un año, explorando un relato fragmentado en cien días que corresponden a loscien años del siglo XX en nuestro país. Cien años de sueños colectivos y arrojos...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...