The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón

Ángel Rama (1926 - 1983) fue uno de los críticos literarios más importantes de América Latina. Periodista, profesor, editor, compilador y polemista, este intelectual uruguayo es una figura singular en el horizonte cultural latinoamericano del siglo XX. Estudió en la Universidad de París, fue director del Departamento de Literatura Hispanoamericana de la Universidad de Montevideo, fundó y dirigió la Editorial Arca, fue columnista de la revista Marcha de Montevideo, posteriormente vivió en exilio y enseñó en diferentes universidades de Estados Unidos, Europa y América Latina. En...

"This new English translation of Canaima should be welcomed by all readers of Gallegos. In addition to Kirkland's translation (based on Charles Minguet's 1991 critique of the novel in Spanish), work contains his engaging and provocative translator's essay

This edited volume explores the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes adopted humanist positions, whether he submitted these to critical examination or made them the target of his satires. It tries to determine how familiar Cervantes was with the contemporary developments of humanism in different European countries, and if references to particular humanist thinkers can be identified in his work. The contributions gathered in this volume, all from acknowledged Cervantes experts, tackle among others the following questions: How does Cervantes analyse the humanist connexion between science and...

Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-44), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-92), Eduarda Mansilla (1834-92), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations. Mujeres en transito revises the...