EXHORTACIÓN Y PRECEPTIVA PARA LOS MAESTROS DE ESCUELAS INFERIORES DE LA COMPAÑÍA DE JESÚS

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...

Many of the fundamental concerns of Chicano and Mexican letters are dealt with by Leal, such as the meaning and origin of the myth of Aztlan, the problem of distinguishing Chicano literature from American and Mexican literature, the consideration of the influence of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, the description of the feminine archetypes of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, and a review of the North American as depicted in Mexican literature.

¿Son necesariamente negativas las dificultades que obstruyen la labor del escritor? ¿Acaso sería preferible que el acto de la escritura transcurriera con la fluidez y serenidad del río de aguas cristalinas? ¿O bien la carga psicológica que impone el impulso narrador constituye un acicate, un instrumento para cobrar conciencia de uno mismo? A partir de estas preguntas, Victoria Nelson analiza la a veces ardua tarea de escribir, y especialmente su momento determinante: aquel en que el escritor trata de convertir ideas e imágenes vagas en palabras concretas.