Cicerón y Cilicia

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...

are downright heart-breaking, and some others are happy events, which they must undergo before setting roots in this country. As in real life, not every immigrant coming to the United States makes it, in this novel; Rosario did, but not her sister, Berta. Some characters in this novel are truly loveable, others quite detestable; all nevertheless are quite human. The reader weeps at times, is angry at times, rejoices at times, but at the close you will find a new meaning for what is meant for a Latina Mistress.

Revisión de un pensamiento poético que descubre en el lógos el carácter trágico del tiempo como horizonte de la existencia, además del sentido poético de la escritura como topología del silencio.

RESUMEN: Análisis del poema «Gesso» de Manuel Bandeira desde la perspectiva compa- ratista. Relación con la poética de las ruinas que se desarrolla en la literatura europea e iberoamericana desde los clásicos a la actualidad. Palabras clave: «Gesso»; Manuel Bandeira; perspectiva comparatista. RESUMO: Análisis del poema «Gesso» de Manuel Bandeira desde la perspectiva compa- ratista. Relación con la poética de las ruinas que se desarrolla en la literatura europea e iberoamericana desde los clásicos a la actualidad. Palavras-chave: «Gesso»; Manuel Bandeira; perspectiva...