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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...

With a grounding in the current theoretical understanding of Renaissance feminism, this work presents an examination of Francisco Delicado's profeminist position in the context of what are currently described as individualist and relational models. The individualist model proposes an autonomy of women in relation to men, law and politics, while the relational explores what women are and do in contrast to men. Delicado's text offers the possibility of invoking both models simultaneously.

Dos hermanas, descubren en el desván de su abuela, un baúl mágico, que les transportará a un mágico país...

El objetivo de este libro es presentar una forma distinta de acercamiento a la literatura. Se trata de ver cómo muchas veces se hace literatura a partir de textos literarios ya existentes. Tras plantear en términos generales este hecho, se pasa revista a algunos procesos de transtextualización en la literatura española. El libro se cierra con diez unidades didácticas en las que se proponen actividades sobre textos concretos entre los cuales existe algún tipo de relación transtextual.