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Algunas prácticas artísticas latinoamericanas contemporáneas trabajan con formas de lo impersonal y anónimo e insisten en interrogar la intensidad de una experiencia que es irreductible a un yo y que se vuelve instancia de interrogación y exploración. Obras de Teixeira Coelho, Veronica Stigger, Diamela Eltit, Rosângela Rennó, Gian Paolo Minelli, Sergio Chejfec, Edgardo Dobry, Marília Garcia, Carlos Cociña, Patricio Guzmán, Jonathas de Andrade y Kleber Mendonça Filho elaboran formas de acceder –de narrar, de exhibir, de discutir– a una vida anónima que viene a reemplazar la...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Es notable la originalidad del método que usa el autor para analizar la esté- tica de Marx. Lejos de ser un compendio de comentarios de Marx sobre arte y literatura, examina sus opiniones sobre estos temas como parte in- tegral de su pensamiento. En su tesis, el autor muestra la relación entre las cambiantes opiniones sobre el arte de Marx y el desarrollo de su teoría revolucionaria, que va desde su primera poesía romántica hasta El capital. En esta edición se agrega la controversia sobre Literatura y marxismo, entre Lifshitz, Kemenov, Levin, Rosenthal, que analizan a Tolstoi, Pushkin, ...