El eterno femenino

La Modernidad ideológica ("más hombre y menos Dios") ha fracasado. Se abre paso una soñadora posmodernidad ("yo decido qué soy, y decido si hay Dios"). ¿Es posible despertar a la cultura del "cuanto más humano, más divino"? El sopor desaparece si se reconstruye la creencia desde sus cimientos indispensables: la conciencia, el sentido de la amistad y del sufrimiento y el fulgor del bien.

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.

A little boy named Dula wants to be the fastest runner. He works skinning fish and, each morning, along with the other child laborers, he tries to win and get to his job first. Sometimes he does it, but not always, depending on whether he had anything to eat the night before. This book provides an excellent way to discuss poverty and its consequences in other countries.

RESUMEN: Una comparación entre el poema «Nu» de Manuel Bandeira y «Amores 1.5» de Ovidio muestra semejanzas asombrosas que quedan confi madas en la lectura detallada de ambos y el comentario paralelo. El poema de Ovidio contiene la más hermosa descripción de un desnudo femenino de la literatura latina. Es por eso un texto que representa lo mejor de la Antigüedad. El de Bandeira, tan similar, es un muy bello texto de la literatura brasileña querepresenta lo mejor de la Modernidad. Se confirman la modernidad de Ovidio y la condición de clásico de Bandeira, equiparable a los grandes...

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.