Solventando Las Diferencias

The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological...

Carme Manuel presenta en aquest volum una selecció de les principals publicacions editades per a l'estudi de la literatura dels Estats Units.

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

En este libro se combina la noción de ethos barroco, de Bolívar Echeverría, con la de verdad metafórica, de Paúl Ricoeur para "inventar" un método de lectura. En realidad, se trata de la lectura de un único texto: Pedro Infante. Las leyes del querer. Esa mezcla, hirviente e inconexa, de retrato literario, ensayo pseudo-psicosociológico, mariachi bufo, sátira histórica y/o chisme de barrio. Este método de lectura superpone y combina consideraciones estéticas y teóricas, tanto de forma como de contenido. En primer lugar, el autor explora el carácter barroco de la forma poética de ...