I Am Sausal Creek

La poesía española de los años 50, ampliamente historiada en muchos de sus aspectos, concentra, no obstante, una riqueza y diversidad estética que no ha sido plenamente reconocida y divulgada. Este volumen reúne ensayos que abordan su estudio desde ángulos que potencian el conocimiento de textos y autores generalmente postergados. Así, con la intención de aquilatar un riguroso trabajo creativo, se incorporan al volumen análisis referidos a la obra de Fernando Quiñones y de César Simón, dos representantes de una estética alejada de la dominante epocal. La mayor parte de los...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Un hombre ve a una persona idéntica a un viejo amigo de la juventud lo cual lo hace reflexionar sobre la nostalgia, la amistad y el pasado.

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...