Arte y política

Este libro es una colecci n de ensayos sobre el sujeto ex tico, ese que nos provoca atracci n y al mismo tiempo rechazo. el sujeto ex tico, nos dice Weisz, representa el lugar a colonizar, y la alteridad as resulta un est mulo Para despertar la sed de aventura, lo que ha sido abordado en ficciones como la narrativa, el teatro y el cine de autores como Carpentier, Vargas Llosa, Anzald a, Alexei, Moore, Coetzee, y Defoe, entre otros. Con base en reflexiones de Barthes, Ricoeur, Todorov, Bajt n, Said y Derrid , los textos exploran si lo salvaje, aquello que denominamos primitivo, define la...

For the first time in the history of research both in Spanish and German linguistics, this book undertakes a comparative study ofthe lexical structures commonly understood as word families and the theoretical and methodological basesof their analysis.Using the word families derived from dec(ir) and sag(en) as a main reference point, thestudy discusses differenttheoretical approaches and positions."

En un país no muy lejano, un niño deja de hablar, y todo lo que le rodea sigue su ejemplo. Sólo los hermoso cuentos que su abuela le narraba podrán ayudarle.

The first in a series, this collection of essays addresses the role of documentary film in negotiations of national identity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Twenty essays by scholars from Latin America, the USA, and Europe analyze narrations of nation in this genre, focusing on documentary film as a political medium, representations of the margins of the nation, postmodern documentary aesthetics, the function of documentaries in terms of cultural memory, and recent revisions of documentary film history. In a concluding section, four renowned filmmakers from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and...