El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana

Fue Plutarco (46 d C - 120 d C), que vivi largo y tendido, quien acun la frase Vidas paralelas como ttulo y como lema - y como una visin de la historia. Vidas para leerlas es, desde el ttulo, una variacin pardica sobre un tema de Plutarco, el primer historiador que bas sus historias en el chisme de saln y los rumores de la corte. Las vidas hechas paralelas por Plutarco han adquirido no slo popularidad (todava se lee a dos mil aos de su muerte) sino que han sido modelo para Shakespeare en su poesa dramtica, han servido para hacer cine (Julio Csar, Antonio y Cleopatra) y todava interesan estas...

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...

Penguin is sick and tired of so much snow and decides he needs a tropical vacation. When he arrives at the beach, he makes a life-long friend that shows him how to play in a warm climate. Penguin gets to return the favor in this adorable picture book when his new pal Crab comes to his icy home.