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This work studies Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas' poetry in Leprosorio. It examines the problems of culture in conflict: the perspective of both exiled people who have left Cuba and the marginalized population left on the island, the use of slang and idioms created by people in the 1960s and 70s, and the impact produced by political terror.

Góngora's Soledades, the major lyric poem of the Spanish Baroque. Combining philological rigor with a capacity to engage the most contemporary transatlantic and comparatist concerns, this work situates Luis de Góngora's Soledades within the problematic evolution of Hispanic modernity. As well as offering an insightful analysis of the Soledades as an expression of the Baroque crisis in all its facets -epistemological, ontological, cultural and historical - the author reads the fragmented lyric subject of Gongorist poetics back against Renaissance precursors [Rojas' Celestina and the poetry...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

En los últimos veinte años, los estudios literarios han estado prisioneros de modelos rígidos, que en aras a justificar su veracidad cientificista, han convertido la obra literaria en un cadáver exquisito. Los diferentes modelos y teorías han venido escamoteando la obra literaria, reduciéndola a su mínima expresión, sin comprender que la literatura dialoga con otras disciplinas y con otras culturas. Lectura, Imaginación y Memoria, que el Programa Editorial de la Universidad del Valle publica por primera vez al público hispanoamericano, recopila doce lúcidos ensayos donde el...