La construcción de la modernidad en la literatura española

En las últimas décadas se ha producido en América Latina una irrupción masiva de nuevos autores que han encontrado una favorable acogida, un espacio propicio de reconocimiento. En esta obra, el destacado ensayista cubano, Jorge Fornet, revisa el quehacer narrativo de las nuevas generaciones de escritores latinoamericanos.

Médicos escritores en España, 1885-1955 estudia las representaciones metafóricas de la enfermedad en Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), Pío Baroja (1872-1956), Gregorio Marañón (1887-1960) y Antonio Vallejo Nágera (1888-1960). Por 'médicos escritores' el autor entiende aquéllos que intervinieron en la política española usando teorías científicas para construir discursos raciales, sexuales y patológicos sobre la identidad nacional. Este volumen analiza el papel de estos cuatro médicos en una variedad de textos, ilustrando cómo utilizan la ciencia y la medicina para definir...

Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a short stories writer of and a poet; and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pio and Federico Uhrbach, as well as Julian del Casal. While still very young, Juana took painting classes, first with Dolores Desvernine, and later on, in...

are downright heart-breaking, and some others are happy events, which they must undergo before setting roots in this country. As in real life, not every immigrant coming to the United States makes it, in this novel; Rosario did, but not her sister, Berta. Some characters in this novel are truly loveable, others quite detestable; all nevertheless are quite human. The reader weeps at times, is angry at times, rejoices at times, but at the close you will find a new meaning for what is meant for a Latina Mistress.